The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-08-19
The Coming Genet and Weather.
New York Herald

New York Herald.
The intense heat reported in the MiGsissip-
pi Valley last week, which also extended be-
yond the Alleghanies, seems to have been
the seasons revenge on the "cold wave
which immediately preceded it. II Ia true
the Canadian weather prophet predicts that
we shall be "nesrly frozen by frosts" about
the time the new comet is in perihelion ION
the Goth inst.), ana that "strong, cold, north
erly winds" will prevail. But we shall have
to see this prophecy fulfilled before we can
believe it. The thermometric observations
in q large portion of the northern hemis.
phere show that the radiation of solar heat
has been abnormally great ever since the
summer solstice. At Madeira, in the laet
week of June, Professor Piszzi Smyth OBJ
served a remarkable excessive activity in the
sun, which was followed by very unusual
atmospheric disturbances and rains at Msdei-
rs. Like undue solar heat seems also to have
been the rule in recent European weather.
"The recent heated term in Paris" says the
Continental Gazette, "has exceeded in ex-
tent and capacity anything of the kind that
has been known during the present GEN.
tury," while the English meteorologists state
that no such heat as that felt in London last
month has been recorded since 1859. The
enormous rainfall of fifteen inches in q few
days on the Florida coast, reported recently
by the signal service, further sttests the press
emit exceptiona! intensity Of the solar frea
since the evaporation from the tropical ocean
sufficient to supply such precipitation
can be ascribed only to anomalous heat.
Taking all these data, in connection with
the records of the extreme thermometric
maxima noted this season in the United
States, ii is reasonable to conclude that, in
stead of early and blighting frosts, we may
rather look for succession of low baromei
trio pressure and warm waves until the mid
die of September.
Early in June the Herald predicted that
we should have in the eastern and northern
part Of the United States comparatively
'cool summer" This forecast was strik-
ingly fulfilled up to the end Of the first
week in August, the June and July tens
peratlre means for this city and Philsdel-
phis falling below those Of the past five
years, and one cool spell after another miti-
eating the severity of the heated term until
the 9th inst. These cooling waves were I'm,
doubleday legscies from the last terrible win
ter, which left British and Arctic America
lin many parts of which the subsoil remains
frozen throughout the summer) abnormally
cold, so that every atmospheric movement
from that quarter has heretofore ha ex-
ceptionslly chilly. But for TIC climatic con-
dition Of the trans Csnuli.n regions, which
have precipitated their cooled Aerial masses
upoH the United States, the summer of
1881, owing to the observed rare intensity of
the suns radiation, would have been one of
the most uncomfortable on record. But that
part Of the continent lying north of the If
iieth parallel, which has served hitherto as
vast refrigerator for the lower latitudes, Is
now daily becoming warmer, and will cons
tinue to do so till the close of August.