Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-10
APRIL TO BE CT
Frosts May Be Expee1o
About April 1o
MORE fAcIsABouT sun
Foster Takes Up His piseuuion
Cites Many Authorities = Provo &
Theory TO Be- . cousss o..

ST. JOSEPH, No., Apru t.-Nx
bulletin gave forecasts Of tho 60
wave TO cross the continent frozn -
10 20 Is, lhe cool wave from Ar
20 IL. ana the merit storm w11p
reach the Pacific coast about Apr1I
cross the western moantsias ~ ri
close of April Is. the great cen>rot ~
ley from April 10 10 Is. aud the ona1nll {
states about April ~. Tals &C.,
wave will be OF steady foroe durlax ri
entire journey across the contlDoo
aud Will be followed by . cooI Vn16
that will cross the oonfiaeut frnm
April l. 10 2l. Frosts will not O. s
tlnue ate siss spring. but IN upEthnor
states = ssaarp tsast may DC expocc11
TO aCcompauy the cool wave DE- S
April IL TO 2l. Rainfall vii be srgor
lar. Too much IN sonle places. =
enough IN others. The 1884, 4<ron1
wili begin 10 snow its fsvorits lurk<1&
places Tor the summer. and the hcaxI
rainfall districts Will soon be kuowa-
Planetary Borec&sss-
In his Leisure Hours" page 10. Pm.
lessor Proctor SAYS; The disc sxcxy -
Sabine, that the ngoon exercises 3 de-
tincily traceahle effect on tne makhot1
needle. seems 20 Us a very rsmarkAt{1
one. IL the nooa exescisea -
influence in this way, why snoald no1
the planets We shalt see that snero +
evidence OF some such lniluence 4eilzn
exerLed by these bodies" Ca paek 3X
saiae hook, THIS author says 10 fi,6
moon happens TO be IA persgee aiN on
the eQulnoct.al loyer the eallns s}Qua>
tori al the same time. then We Eek si1<
largest lunar tidal wave we eau posest{s
nave" In the same chapter Psolce1<s
Proctor SAYS that II the solar iniinenc<
(at new or full moonl be added, Ihsn
we have the highest of all poss.bis
Iides, aud herein he stated one of the
most important OF all the principles ~
electro ,.ianetary meieorology. {if
does not stop here, bnt ventarod "a
make The prediction that. on the 18TH
IF October following the date OF h1t
ieter. one of the great tidal waves
would occur.
sanspots and the Earth
Balfour Stewart, pro essor OF natusa
science al the Owens collsg Nanciae
ter, says: "We have murs reason e
believe that sunsposs influence. 10
only the magnetism, but also The hz2-
terology of our earth, 70 that there are
q
most cyclones, IN those years whrf
there are most sunspots." THIS quota
ION rs taks n from Professor stexarx
Conservation of En~rgy,' whicn ~,
thought of 20 muca inporiance TIA
Professor Proctor copied the whole .,
II into one of his books. ProIssx1
Stewart declares that sunspofe affrc
our weather, not by attraction of ga
iiiation only, but ~ currents OF eles
tricity, a. observed an the aurora. Pr
f.ssor Kedzie of Chicago. Ia. IA 4
book, called .'Soiaf Heat. Gravity A.
Sugspots," claims that the suDspo's {. 4
OF the nature of our weather changes.
and quotes from Guillimin's work on
tue suu, where. IN reference 10 thc the
ories OF Warren DE La Rue, BaiIouo
Stewart and Lowry, Professor GuiEk
min says: "Ttey appear TO have %
served that when one Of these piate
passes across The plane of the Suni
equator. II drags the spots into thS
equatorial regions Of the disc; the1
spread toward the poics, on the CON
trary. when the planets pass away from
the equatorial plane" That ouotat3or
states graad principle Of ele Ifo-
planetary meieorology aud the prin-
ciple is endorsed 10y the four weIk
known scientists last named above.
oae OF Hts Principles
simplifying the statement, they aag
that when the planet is over the suns
equator. the storms on the tan are
drawn close 10 the suns equator, Tie
storms are drawn IN The direrfion of
the planet. That Is one OF the fixed
principles IN my system Of meteorolou
Tor ! apply that prlncipie 10 tafik
storms. relieving that our earth ard
the sun are, IN every particular. con.
siructed on the same principle. Ti1f
idea ls endorsed by Professor Proefof
when he says: "ahroughoat IA. solaf
system a genera. similarity of constfuc-
ton exists, the suu being. % 10 speak.
The type of The fanny ever which fs
rules and again where be saws '.0n
our own earth the subiropicsl gopes
are tue reg ons where toe great cr.
clonlc storms have Their birth and rxxo
with their Chief force. Htre. flscrtfofe.
We have the analogue II tie kaiaf
spots" If, - Professor Proctor al,6
other scientists say. The Sun tpufe are
sun storms, similar to oar earth tfof13o.
anJ these Sun spots are influenced -
their movements around the fun ~
the movements Of the planets. way MOI
our earth storms be governed. - some
extent, by the movements OF The
plsnets7 IL ~ quite evident that tbose
who discard the ps1nclpies Of eIectro-
planetary mcteorology must also 81
aside many OF the prsDcipies taught -
The great ecientistx.--T f'opff a flttf 4 q