The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-18
WINTERS ARE NOT
GROWING COLDER
NOR ARE SUMMERS WARMER
SAYS MIR. BOYER, IN CHARGE OF
LOCAL WEATHER BUREAU.

Records of Greenwich Observatory,
Nearly Two Hundred Years Old,
show There Has Been Practically
No Change in Winter and Summer
Means in Two Centuries-PubIIc
Opinion Always to Contrary
weather Bureau Instruments
Make Exact Records.
Despite the constant and almost con-
tinuous repetitions of the oldest in
habitants" to the contrary, there is
practically no change in the severity
of the winters throughout the coun-
try and no increase in the heat of the
summer.
other city and county in the United
States, each winter finds several peo-
pie who keep repeating that this win
ter is the coolest in history. And in
summer time there never before was
such a. hot spell. The records of the
Weather Bureau make these men out
as King David characterized all man
kind.
The records of the observatory at
Greenwich, the Oldest in the world
and nearing the 200 year mark. shows
that there has been practically no
change. There is a slight increase,
perhaps less than half a degree, or a
corresponding decrease at varying
years, but so small ds this that 1t
makes practically no change. Reports
from different stations in this country
show the same thing to be true.
In Savannah the change has been
so slight that 1t is hardly possible to
detect 1t even by the delicate instru-
ments at the Weather Bureau In dis
cussing the matter Mr.. II. B. Boyer
the local observer. said:
1T Is perfectly safe to say that there
Is no change. OF course an exception
ally cold day or two or some unusu-
ally warm ones will make a slight
change, but the mean temperature for
winter and summer remain practical
ly the same from year to year. The
records show that one year is almost
exactly the same. as far as the mean
is concerned as another.
Opinion of the Public.
THE opinion of the general pub
lie" he continued, lis always that each
summer ds the hottest on record and
each winter the coolest. When / was
in Florida was being constantly told
that each winter was the coolest in
the history of the state, even at times
when the indications were that 1t was
going to be just the opposite. have
noticed the same thing in Savannah.
The whole thing goes to show the
unreliability OF the general opinion
on matters OF this kind. man gets
thoroughly chilled and then, but dim
ly remembering the last time he was
in the same condition, is confident that
II never was so cold before and can
not possibly be so cold again.
by and by this complaint becomes
almost chronic. That is the reason
that the old men are always telling
US that there never were such cold
winters when they were boys, or that
the snowfall Is not as heavy as IL
was in the good old days Of long ago.
Change I'm Locality.
I'm many instances the change IN
the place OF residence is found 10 be
a direct cause OF this feeling" said
Mr.. Boyer. In boyhood many OF us
lived In the country and when we got
up In the morning there was snow to
shovel away. or buckets OF water 20
be thawed out, or a dozen other effects
OF cold 10 be remedied.
Then we moved INTO the city. Now
We get up and md the streets snow
less Hot water IL Just as readily
found as cold. and Ice rs never found
AZ common az IN the country. The re-
suit IL. We think II IL getting warmer
in the winter. IN summer reverse con-
dltlons prevail. There are no running
streams 40 cool thinNs ON. no wealth
of shade trees, and only white bulldinRs
and asphalt paved streets 10 reflect tha
hest, ~ result we dolefullv eKcinim
thht the summers are getting hotter.
"A study ~ she records. however. ana
ihfY must indicate even the slightest