Michael August Friedrich Prestel

“ From the 13th to the 15th of November, 1873, after a period of calm, with high barometer over the greater part of Northwestern Europe, we find succeeding a similar barometric minimum, and a storm area advancing across the Mediterranean toward the Black Sea.
At any given point of the earth's surface the state of the weather always depends on the prevailing air-currents. The annual and the secular periodic changes of the oceanic and the atmospheric currents are repeated in the weather-changes. ”

“ The terrestrial atmospheric currents, in their passage over the same portion of the earth's surface (whether this passage be periodic or not periodic) , never take the same route, or have the same limits, and consequently the localities over which they pass on their return will happen to be at one time in the centre of the current, at another time more or less near to its northern or its southern edge. ”

“ At Cologne, at 3h. 41m., December 18, 1854, the barometer showed 726.6 millimetres—a barometric minimum never before observed there since 1830.
In 1854 the track of the storm-centre traversed Northern France and Germany: thus, as on November 22d,it was more southerly than in 1873.
Such concordant atmospheric phenomena as these, when the moon occupies the same position relating to the earth, might be quoted at great length. The moon, as it governs ebb and flow, so too determines oceanic currents, and, by means of these, atmospheric currents. ”