DISCUSSION 395 
Weather Bureau unfortunately did not employ 
synoptic meteorology analysis to the problem 
as you Just suggested, but it tried to fight back 
with Langmuir’s own weapons, with statistical 
analysis. Here, of course, Langmuir’s genius 
could not be defeated and in the bombardment 
of his ever new and different significance tests 
and correlation factors which however con- 
tributed so little to the basic physical meteoro- 
logical argument did the Weather Bureau lose 
rather than gain ground. 
Mr. Namias—Could I just make one last re- 
mark? I meant to point out that in reality this 
whole problem indicates the extreme importance 
of numerical forecasting procedures. If we can 
get an objective rainfall forecasting method, we 
can find answers and in ways involving much 
less emotion. 
