The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-14

with the visits of the Leonid meteors is
that the weather of the Northern Henri
sphere has experienced remarkable vicis
STUDIES at each of the recurring periods.
The sudden and violent change in the
temperature observed in 1899 by United
States Commissioner Ellicott. off the
coast of F'lorida) was noted again in
1888 the thermometer having run down
20 degrees in this vicinity Cat other
points as much as 80 degrees) from a few
hours before the appearance of the me-
teors until sunrise of the 18th of Novem-
Der. And the fall In the temperature
continued until the 21st at which time
the daily mean had fallen from 81 de-
grees on the 18th to y degrees. y SINH
lar perturbation occurred in 1867; and if
a rapid decline should occur within a
few hours after sunset on the evening
of November Il next, it will probably in
dictate the close proximity of the earth
to the approaching meteoric swarm.
So. too. the rainy character of those
years is remarkable. No records on this
score are obtainable for 1893. But in
1893. in this vicinity generally, the rain
fan was in excess of from four to seven
inches above the mean Of a quarter-cen-
fury. The summer Of 1867 was noted for
its heavy. incessant rains; there fell in
the month of June 1888 inches and in
July inches. or an aggregate for the
Z first seven months of the year of 1905
inches-the annual average being about
IS inches. The month of August was an
unusually rainy one, a single downpOur
IN the middle OF that month having last
ed II hours with but . few hours of
abatement September and October We're
pleasant but November and December,
with their rain and snow, carried the
years record to about ~ inches, the
highest ever known in this vicinity. The
year 1861 was also like the other period
-, IL 4
thUnderstorms out OF season and other
phenomena of an extraordinary charac-
ter. In the first week of November great
tornadoes occurred in the West indies,
violent gales on our Great Lakes, and a
remarkable thunderstorm in Montreal;
while in this vicinity the thermometer
dropped on the morning of the It'll, TO
80 degrees and Immediately began to run
mp again until it reached - degrees
shortly after midnight On November II
the day at Washington. i. G., was I'M
usually warm. ending in violent thun
derStorm at night followed Immediately
by a very high and cold wind and at
noon a fall of snow.
The present year. 1901. has been Just
such rainy ore as those which have
heretofore marked the Leonid periods
At the end of last August the rain and
snowfall footed up for this vicinity about
36i inches or about inches more than
the average Of the first eight months
during the period Of 3 years. The ex-
traordiuary phenomena noted this year
are precisely those which characterized
the previous periodical years. SO that
there seems sufficient reason To look for
ward with confidence to "A reappearance
of the great Leouid shower this fall.
remarkable circumstance was noted al
Kiuderhook. y y. ON the 18th of No
vember. 1893, two days before the great
shower. Phosphoresceut lights We're
seen on the tops OF sticks posts and
other pointed objects. some of those
lights being as large As a flame OF "a
candle. and having a dim white light
pointing upward. At the same time the
atmosphere appeared UNUSUAL red. This
and many other phenomena that espe-
cially characterized the periodic years
lead not unreasonably to the conjecture