ABSTRACT
Weather is a matter of eddies. When cold air descends from above to the ground, it must spread out. If it goes north in the northern hemisphere it keeps some of the eastward motion appropriate to the latitude from which it started, and therefore swings eastwards. So a patch of heavy cold air descending and spreading outwards generates a clockwise eddy or anticyclone. If the cold spell could have been predicted even a month ahead, the government could have taken measures in advance to build up coal reserves. There are probably a few other meteorological situations where it would be possible to provoke rainfall or snowfall in one area rather than another, thus bringing needed rain or averting floods or blizzards. During the Russian famine of 1921 Lenin set up research to prevent the next famine. The main thing to do to avert another situation like the present is to accumulate coal reserves, which means more miners and equipped mines.
