(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
Mt. Sinai has been considered as a site for the third Smithsonian station to study fluctuations of the sun’s light and heat, but it has now been abandoned as a possibility, a bulletin issued by the Smithsonian Institution here stated.
“We looked earnestly at the Sinai Peninsula and tried to see Mt. Sinai because it had been suggested as a possible site for my observatory. But cirrus clouds lay over the sky all along and these, and a rather low altitude and forlorn, barren inaccessibility, seemed to me sufficient objections to solar research,” Dr. C. G. Abbot, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, reported.
Dr. Abbot has left the Red Sea and finished his tour of India. He is now on his way to South Africa, continuing his search for a suitable site. It is hoped that data obtained from a third station, and later from a fourth, if more funds should become available, will increase the possibility of making reliable weather forecasts all over the world weeks and even months in advance, the bulletin of the Institution states.
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