The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-08-31
a Hard winter Coming.

The prusunt rruspn rs one NJ the muat
peculiar which the Texas clmnto huB
encountered tor IL number al yrHrs pust
for pcrhnpe great many S"Hue. 1t N
we'll to eugrnvc ITS poculIautIos on the
memory, hrcuu-" A has been one Of the
iiuoht crop )ciu- aud the relation be
tween the p"CuiHrltl"r ut e. svHsOu,
and its results iuny prove worthy 81
study The present summrr -rrus to
b" only Il sruuoi To- - surIos of p"rtuthn-
I UnR III the atmosphere running buck
Tor two ycurs and embracing more or
less the crtiry country Lust summer
wHR extremely dry and hot, uuuroce.
drutcdly 80, md tine rNtrcmr heat and
dryucHs extended over almost the cutlr
nIuH uf the United States. Inst winter
wus au unusually mild uud open und
this extended over almost the uutlrc
United States But two frust- occurred
during the vutilr winter mn central
rrNnr and those su extremely
Ii 1T tina, water fru2e to not morr dur
ing those two nights than tn Ckurs- ut
Il quarter OF an inch, and roses hluumcd
the vutIrc season through. II might
have been expected that the present
summer would have been dry and hot,
while Oh the contrary 1t has been cN-
Ntkil INC ll'ff'a il''I Atll W.T. N''IiAlu'Ah4
rmuEIwlth the vAcrI tIuu { the mouth
Ut June, having occurrrd,Ut short inter
yalA through the entire y ar, and the
TIA rmomctrr standing ,tcudu! hctwcou
eighty aud ninety except ia
June when through SOME days 1t
reached D3, itself % moderate point.
Why not. dry summer and O phcuuu
cuHlly mild open winter should Toe fol-
lowed hy cool and wet summer Is %
: equation with many interesting at
urrs II may Ice that tn" grcn cyupu-
ration going uu FOR over yrhr with
scnr ely my prccl ! HtHtIuu during that
long p Rod IN any Turt ut tho United
States Ind banked up immense stores
Of moisture IN the atmosphere, .rcluliy
III the the upper regions, aud that the
prudlgIuus IA ufHlls uf his summer are
bat the accumulated rainfall Of uIgh cen
months. To explain how this could be
would perhaps puzzle the wlsrst as much
aH the original question, and especially
why over the United States this stun
mcr thnt rainfall should hc 40 paruc.
n'nr sp ~ while other spots have been
pbrchrd with drought. IL only needs
now IN order to complete q two ycnrs
cycle OF HtmusphurIcul cCcuntriclnrs thut
the present winter should hc one, tue
Thermometer IN Central Texas Hhuuli go
down t. zero aud n there 10 amy system
M the atmospheric which is " ~ doubt
tul, tins, # the cold do mot reach zero,
vi he probably the coolest winter ever
experienced Ia thus section II may
10y mild and balmy us spring, bccuusc
nothing ls impossible 10 tine Wcthrg ca
cept consistency, but the probabilities
nrt us Nrunur would say, tnHt We shall
have "a very hard, long and cold winter
During an ordinary summer tho earth
stores up vast quantities oi
heat and glycu 1t ont gradually through
the first part Of the winter SO that the
coolest weather docs not hcnu until lu
January, when the store ot heat uassci
up in the earth during tine summon.
This explains that true but purud Nlcal
aphorism that "gs the days begin o.
lengthen when they shOold grow
warmer the GO begins to strengthen.
On tins theU'y the unusual mildnoss NJ
lust winter II readily ace united for. Dur
ing the long, dry and exceptionally hot
summer Of 1881 the earth ac umulutcd
such vast stores Of heat hs to last II
through the entire winter succeeding
On the same ground the hypothesis OF "a
coming cold winter is tonuble since he
SIMMER has been ~ cool and wet that
the Ear b has gathered IN uoArHt and We
shall enter upon the winter with mo- heut