The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-05-01
LOOK FOR A COOL SUMMER.
Sergeant d Dunn Says We Will Have Little
or No Hot Weather.
New York Sun.


the last ten days than in the whole
spring and winter preceding. There
is no advertisement for summer re-
sorts, transportation agents say, like q
few delicious days just when the trees
are budding. New York, and, in fact,
the whole eastern part Of the country,
is now enjoying such a bit of balmy
weather. There's storm brewing in
the far West which will be along be-
fore many days, but excepting this,
Sergeant Dunn thinks, we are in fol
continuous pleasant weather for some
time. 1t is good deal warmer than
is usual for this time Of year-at least
five degrees warmer than the average.
Put then it's a queer season, any way,
and if the summer is cool, as promises
to be, not so bad season after all.
People who like sleigh riding and
skating did a lot Of heavyweight
kicking in the months seasunable to
such enjoyments, but it is noticeable
that the same people are now getting
out their fishing traps and tennis
racquets a good deal earlier than usual,
and are wearing large-sized and COM
Portable smiles. Perhaps if the ther-
mometer is content to stay in the SOS
all the summer, even the devotees of
moonlight sleigh rides will be content
with the year, altogether.
But will the summer be cool? Ser
eeant Dunn thinks it will, and cites
the warm weather of the past winter
and present time as bis reason. The
weather is dreadfully erratic in Amer
lea, but it is consistent in one single
respect. 1t keeps its average for the
whole year within limit Of only five
degrees of variation. The year 1873
was the coldest, on the whole, that we
have had since we've had the weather
bureau. The average was 1876 degrees.
Last year was the other extreme, with
an average of $50 degrees. We can
count on the weather keeping within
these bounds, and so it follows that
when we have an unusully cold winter
we have an unusully warm summer
to counterbalance it and keep up the
average. AS we've had extremely
temperate weather all winter, and
much warmer weather than usual this
spring, we will probably have a cool
summer to balance the account.
While everybody has been enjoying
the salubrious temperature of the
present month, and particularly of the
noet +n., dns,e --rnr1' foru hauA non
sidered how unusually favored we are
for this time of year. Here in New
York Sergeant Dunn makes up an av-
erage temperature for each day IN the
wear, based on the temperature taken
on that day for every year since 1871.
He finds that from April 18th to April
q inclusive, this year, the tempera-
ture has gained just As degrees on this
record-that is, that these days have
averaged 5 degrees warmer than the
corresponding days in the past. That
result includes the 18th of the month,
when the temperature fell s degrees
below the average.
But this is only of a part with allou
weather since January l. Since that
date, up to and including last Monday,
we have gained 713 degrees oftempera-
ture over the average for the year for a
period of equal length. Last year the
corresponding period showed the high
est temperature to date, and then the
increase was 425 degrees. So this year
we have gained 2SS degrees more than
last year, which means that for the Ill
consecutive days from January l, the
daily temperature has been nearly p
degrees higher than it was last year for
the same period, and nearly Z degrees
higher than the average for the whole
year.
Now, says Sergeant Dunn, such be-
ing the case, if the weather is proper
tionately warmer in the summer, or
even if the usually high summer tenn
peratures prevail, the average for this
year will be astonishingly high-in
fact, will knock that respectable thing,
the yearly mean temperature, into a
cooked hat. But such an occurrence
has never been noted, and we may rest
in the belief that the weather will so
modify it's fervor in the summer as to
come within the limits of the usual ave-
rage.
Sergeant Dunn was asked what the
cause was of the unusual warmth of
this spring. He answered technically
that it was due to the unusra ally fire.
ouent high pressures in the South
along the Gulf coast, and similar un-
usual number of low pressures in the
lake region. These were much the
same conditions as occasioned the
warm weather of the winter. In the
language of every day, Sergeant Dunn
said that it was his belief that the con-
ditions to make the weather warmer in
the winter and spring and cooler in the
summer were occasioned by the tre-
mendous amount of irrigation in the
great plains of Nebraska, Kansas and
neighboring regions. The irrigation
sent the storms across our country in
stead of up into British America, as
before, and disturbed the rainfall more
widely and tended to equalize the tenn
perature. The irrigated land attracted
these storms, and started them East in
stead of driving them off, as happened
before when these regions were almost