Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-07-27
HEAT AND sUNsp0Ts,

as expected, the Ions heated wave
through which the earth II passing "
blamed on sunspo,s, These phenomena
ere supposed TO have periodical maxi
mum and minimum of about eleven
years, and we are now passing through
q maximum, Row Ira n, Hicks OF
~, Louis calls attention to this fact
he says Il gigantic double "epo," has
now appeared on the face of the sUn,
II IA 10 large that II " visible TO the
NAKED eye" Witch however must be
protected by smoked glass, II turned
toward the blazing unInary In the
NY Mr. Hicks says that when he nrrt
raw the huge depression IN tho suns
surface II was on what we call the east
limb ~ the sun, II IN moving westward
ever tho SUMS surface The sun n oO0,'
600 miles IN diameter, and this double
spot IN about $4,000 miles IN area, II
~ claimed that this sun spot IN ono Of
the largest on record
Whom the scientists first commenced
10 speculate on these solar phonomcno,
they seemed inclined 20 connect nearly
every mundane popularity with them,
Heat, ana cold, famine, and pcsticnco,
war and even financial fluctuations
were thought to be IN some way duo
to solar tpots II wap, therefore, TO be
expected that the coincidence Of the
present torrld wave and the mnspot
maximum would again attract atlcn-
ton
what the sunspols are, 10 not known
for certain, The accepted theory now
ls that the sun IL vast, fiery gaseous
body surrounded by an atmosphere ~
substances, such M iron, copper and
many others, volatlllzed by tho intense
heat The outer portion OF the sun, Il
IL further supposed radlates lts heat,
eondcnscs and sinks Tho hotter matter
IN the Interior rises TO the surface In
this way currents are established, Tho
| descending currents, beceueo consisting
Of ooolcd-or matter are darker than
the ascending currents At times these
| currents form vast cyclones, The heat.
cd, up.rushlng masses are then known
an fOoulnc, while the cooler down.rush.
Ing matter appears as spots" How
| this theory N 10 be reooncled 20 the
perlodiclly Of the epots n not clonr
unless we accept tho explanation Of
some astronomers, that the sun N thus
affected by Mercury and Venus, ON ac-
count OF their ncarnesa 10 the sun, and
| OF Jupiter because OF It's enormous size,
The New York World quotes weather
| ohronlolcrs 20 the effect that In 1850
there wcro three sigsllng months which
produced almost q famine In garden
truck" In ls0, New York had Ave hot
summer weeks without rain, A Juns
July week ~ 1879 saw the mercury
dancing almost constantly IN the aOs-
even jumping up 10 degrees In one day,
July In 1879 brought two weeks Of tenn.
peraturos ranging, unoTolally, from
10 degrees 10 lOL July Is TO 90 1899,
thore was ton'day heated term par
allclng tho present spell" 10th In de-.
grees Of holiness and IN the spread OF
country which It covered In 1901 hot
sooson eliminated ON July IN heat
hurst that cost $50 lives and Frustrated
40 IN New York olone The mercury
reached % degrees that last day
on the other hand, In july 1915 there
were frost and Tee IN Now York Thoro
had been snow IN June, Clearly sun.
snols DO not account for al these nuc.
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