Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-26
SOLAR DISTURBANCES.
They Occur Every Eleven Years-Efect OF sun
spots on.the Weather

Spots on.the Weather.
New York Sun.
The sun undergoes in fairly regular
period of about eleven years progressive
disturbance, successfully increasing TO
maximum and falling off to minimum,
which is most conspicuously manifes'eu
by the appearance of spots upon IT'S sur
face lust at present we are eVloeHliE
at a minimum of solar Disturbance &.
Snots like those now visible hagsa
been rare upon the sun for the past Y6sf
ar two. and they are likely 10
he rare for two or three years TO collo'
though they will doubtless soon peSl! ~
increase in frequency. rms great ul'
sion of the sun-spot period INTO epocha VI
maximum and minimum suggests tno
roodiest means of testing the question
whether sun-spots erect the "ea 'noi
| The fest has been made, but not on any
large general, or well formulated pian'
includinq the whole accessible globe III
! tic range and so, as might nave peen
on+icinated. the results have been poIh
| unsatisfactory and contradictory
| Still if can be said that the evidence
is sufficient to make it probable that we
have. uDon the whole, somewhat III
ferent sort of weather on the earth at tue
minimum of sun spots from that Wnlch
| nreyails at the maximum. FROM 1907 "
1884 the sun was in tremendously us
! +rrhad condition, and during those years
+bpra vas,an extraordinary prevalence OF
tornadoes in the United states inc
nrasent wear Is probably the mldole VI
the ouiescent period for the sun, anu 4
+bounh the weather we have had mas oeel
equally remarkable with that OF hVe o.
laaanan aT
six wears ago, It's character TX"
been strikingly different. Inc 9"uOSl
nopularity of the phrase genera huuniu
~ veil indicates the sort of weather ina
- criI-an rise to it Extraordinary ram
have prevailed in every quarter; ah'
, .rbila there have been great and destrhc
tive winds. vet, with one or two mlno
executions, they have not assumed III
roll known characteristics of tOFnadoes
| Observations in other parts OF the WoII
I ! hove seemed to Indicate that during III
e minimum of sun spots we are more llKei
$ 40 have wet seasons than at the opposlI
= epoch of the solar changes ~
i As meteorological knowledge continue
e 20 ox+end and scientific observation
Il the weather is carried on IN remote qu"i
e +ors 'of the Globe, more decisive lnforma
IS ton on this most interesting, subject WI
IS roDid1v accumulate What is needed
), a complete organizau ton OF weather VI
d servers all over the earth, working upC
d a fixed plan, and exchanging their lnlo
81 nation so that they can make simuitan
IS ous observations, and thus present to u
Of mind picture of the atmosphere OH al
l. chosen day, or throughout any month
Of wear. all around the globe. "heh
s. have that, then we shall have the mea
IN of determining beyond question ~
IN how and to what extent the forces IN
I'll produce sun spots affect the earth
SIS weather. We are fast approXlmatlng
RS this desired condition of things, althou
v an organized attack upon the probe
remains to be made.
so We think that when the evidence
at all in if will show that there Is a relatl
CHI netween solar and terrestrial meteoro
he gy. The only fault we have to ma
IN many of the spectators on this proDl
,rs is that they forget to follow the exc
1t lent maxims of Lord Bacon, ana
it Stunning that to be known which is
lal beyond the knowledge of any man Il
&C. nish striking justification OF
,ur Whewell's lament that man IS prone
mt he a deductive reasOner.