Daily Republican., 1883-08-14
TUESDAY AUGUST Ia, 1858.
Weather n ne tuAtiOssS.

TUESDAY AUGUST IA. 1883.
Weather n ne tuatiOns.
The last two weeks of cool weathe
and the sudden change to heat yester
day reminds us of uncertain nuctuation
Of the weather and puzzles the asst ut
weather-wise to account for it. Witt
some the idea is prevalent that the sea
sons are changing and many argument
are produced founded upon recent dis
ooveries in the Arctic regions to estab
lish that fact. Animals beloL cling Il
the tOrrid zone have been found i'm
bedded in the frigid ice and snow tina
surround the north pole, from which il
IL argued that some revulsion of nature
has taken place at some time ant
changed the torrid into the frigid zone
At the best these can be called reason
able speculations, for there is no know
ing how these changes could have oc
Cured except in the manner named
The time of such revulsion of nature il
more difficult to establish, as we havt
NO account of any other destruction O.
the world and its reformation, than thu
one that left Noah and his ark upol
the highest mountain of Asia
But no such change as that is thought
about at the prestn to account for the
fluctuation Of the weather, though
there may be causes at work lroducing
it of which we know nothing.
Our seasons are made up of spring,
summer, autumn and winter, divided
Ms near as can be into four equal parts,
the twenty-first Of March, June,
September and December being the
respective commandments. By thu
fluctuations which have been notice
for number of years p st, though the
periods remain the same, the weather Of
spring is showed along into the summer
period, the summer into the fall and
the fall into the winter, and reverse
order is often the case. This year there
seems to have been s.me obstruction or
iInpediment in the natural working or
der of the seasons causing a general
mix up of spring, summer, and fall
atrospheres. These change, of wealth.
ct have been watched so closely by
meteorological philosophers, that there
il warrant for stating from the sixth
to the twelfth ofAugust there is usually
a cold period.
The New York Herald in writing an
article on the weather changes gives the
conclusions rrrved at by RIA. Proctor,
an English wra her scientist at Green
witch. Arguing from these experiments
the Herald says
In the United States, though the data
for testing the existence OF this "c"d
period' are not so full as those Of Green
wich, there appears to b" a distinctly
marked repression often peraturt in the
first week of August, fol owed by a de.
cidedly "warm period" in the second
week. On the 9TH of August, 1877, a
pressure wave eliminated over thi.
country, which the Signal Bureau ie
ported "was accompanied By cold
weather that lasted through the first
week of August OYER the 1ouptry east
of the Mississippi. At the same pc.
riod of the following August hail fell il
from ten to fifteen States, and on the
9Th minimum temperatures Of 81 and
% degrees were reported from Santa f.
and Pixies Peak respectively. In the
first week of August, 1870, frost oc
CURED in the Northwest au5 ice formed
on Mount Washington, while in Cana
tia the thermometer fell as low as AZ
Between the ID and 7th Of August
1890, the government reports show "th'
minimum temperatures Of the month
occurred over Lake Michigan, the OH,
Valley and "from the Mississippi Il
the Rocky Mountains On the 9Th q
the succeeding August (lSSl) the frs
frost of the season was reported from
Minnesota, the mercury falling TO So il
the Northwest and 80 in the lower nrcl
region, Last year this cold spell seem
&, have been little belated, but from
the 9Th t. the 10 h Of August it passe'
over the country and was attended SD,
decided fall OF temperature, whicI
the official data show ranged from
10 Il below the normal III tn" North
west
But as there are exceptions 10 al
rules there are many in r. gard 10 an
formula Of weather that may be ad0p,
ed. 1t seems to be something entirel
beyond the control Of human rrguI1
ton and we can only accept III
weather philosophy Of Buchan an
Proctor to be true AS a genera thin.
but subject to many changes willie
cannot be accounted for. Yesterday
temperature led Us to believe that II
veal her was going to run in the smOot
grooves laid down by those wealth,
wise philosophers, but the cold wave
this morning shows the variable
ness of the weather and the uncertaint
of the predictions Of the weather wis
The conclusions, however, Of the He
AIDS weather writer are that howev'
cool our weather may be in the OUTS
of August, the reaction is speedy an
the agricultnralist may dismiss b
fears that the heat Of late summer wi
be insufficient to mature his crops
warm period he predicts is approach
ing which will be highly beneficial
,he ripening crops Of corn which a
benefited by high temperatures
THE Quicksteps have not got out
the old ruts yet, and yesterday addt
another score TO the unbrOken Ion
line of defeats, II is said they are con
ing home tomorrow and q long series