Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-07-31
a., climate Changing?

.ho memory of the Oldest inhabitant
4" i've been in the eastern part OF
.Se United States no two such miid WIN,
Wv coming together as those OF
Vei9 90 and the first half of lSS9-9O.
lo0 have bloomed outdoors in mid
TOR furs and heavy overcoats have
"a sweltering burden, and even IN
.ss,ne the ice crop is short. A writer IN
NJ Now York Sun goes into the causes
his phenomenal weather.
Tho weather in the eastern and middle
..ons If the Union has not only been
- the first half of the season; it
We heen sticky, muddy and full of rain
and fogs. like a London winter. 1t has
Ian unhealthy. but apart from the
.,.,,;c of influenza the death rate
a,,ld probably have been no larger than
Tho point of peculiar interest to all
.oricans is: May it not be possible for
,his foggy, rainy weather to become the
moment winter of the eastern section
~ the Union? In connection with the
I'm winter. it has been noticed that
80 course of storms has changed in the
Loot wear, A storm center usually de-
..olons in Manitoba and whirls rapidly
.outbeast for some distance, then passes
"a eastward in the Atlantic ocean. As
!, yhrls it sucks in air from all direc-
,;ors-warm air from the south, cold air
from the north. If it passes south OF a
,lace that place will experience a colo
nave. if north. then warm, southerly
sinds will envelope the locality.
Now il has been observed the pres
ant winter that the northwest storms
have shot off to the northward of thu
limited States, passing over eastern Can
ada and disappearing in the Atlantic, OF
Labrador. The storm centers have fol
lowed general direction along the st
Lawrence river. some 200 miles north
ward of their usual track. This mean
warm winds for all the United State
south of and within the influence of tn
Storm center. Instead of snow and ice
II meant fog, mud and rain-exactly tn
weather. i'm short, that much of the cour
try has experienced
What has caused this change and WI
il be permanent? Are we going to ha'
mosouitoes all the year round! III
cause is obscure, but some meteorologis
incline to the belief that irrigation OF Il
arid lands in the west has something
do with it. If cutting off the limb
from a country gradually transforms
into desert and permanently chang
its climate, then will not artificial irl
cation on large scale change it, tool
Under persistent irrigation in the (
west the natural rainfall of the count
is already largely increased. New stor
eenters are now said to develop in t
Rocky Mountain regions far south
Manitoba. whence they pass eastwa
with tremendous force.
In brief, is the climate of the caste
half of our country hereafter to be II
that of western Europe, with clouds, I
and rain two-thirds of the time! Ii 1t
let us at once begin to remember
conversations. We shall need the
For one thing. our compilations will
vastly improved. For producing eli
red and white, nothing is so good as
fogs and clouds that temper the suns II
and fill out with soft moisture the tam
shriveled American skin. Our str'
berries will be much larger and m
luscious So will the gooseberries.
And the men who harvest ice TO
living up in Maine. Well, they can
to cultivating orange groves.