The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-11-14
PUSH WEATHER NAP.
UNITED STATES FoREcAsTo WILL
EXTEND NoRTHWARD.
Washington Weather Men Hereafter
to Reckon with World Conditions
Instead of with Those OF America
Observation-Disclosures Now Covered.

Beginning this month. the United
States weather map will be extended
to include a complete grasp Of the
northern hemisphere. Maps are being
prepared, for use by forecaSters of the
government, which will include Irkutsk,
Tomsk and Ekaterinburg, in Siberia.
III addition, the 'Icelandic low" which
means the area of low winter barom-
eter of the North Atlantic, soon will
begin making reports by cable. The
opening Of cable service to Iceland, just
announced, will make this possible.
Already the weather bureau receives
reports from western Europe including
London, Paris, Hamburg and half a
dozen points in Great Britain. Every
morning a cable from the Azores GOV
ers conditions in the South Atlantic
region, including LsbO2. Arrange
ments are near completion for daily
reports from the "Bering Sea low
barometric area. In the summer storm
season the West Indies region is COM
pletely reported.
Broadly speaking, the northern hem
ispherC will report daily on its weather
conditions to the bureau in Washing
for instance, the Aleutian Island chain
from Alaska across to Siberia, which
will need to be covered later by ar
engagements for wireless reports, or for
reports from steamships crossing the
Pacific by the great circle" route.
Nome. Alaska. for the time being. will
be the extreme report from American
territory to the far Northwest. AS soon
as pOssible-which means when observ-
ers can be engageQ--repOrts from in
terror Alaska will be secured.
For international Reports.
And beyond this in the not distant
future there will be an international
weather reporting arrangement just
as there is now an international postal
agreement, whereby the worlds
weather conditions will be reported in
cooperation and forecasts will be
made, covering long periods.
I'VE will be able" said Chief CARR
Oft Of the Chicago weather bureau, "at
least TO notify the Kansas farmer of
the outlook for weather long enough in
advance to enable him to pick propi-
tiOus harvest week. 1t is not only
important to tell what the weather
will be- but to tell how long it will
last; to forecast n rainy week and 4
,I, =, ;,,f
people when it will be safe to cut their
hay and allow it to cure on the
grounds or to notify Il farmer
whether a coming week will be safe
for cutting hay. \ State fair manage
mcnt will be able to learn at the be-
ginning of its week of entertainment
whether the weather is likely to be
good, or whether postponement would
be desirable"
The greatest land area on earth is
the immense continental plain from st.
Petersburg east to the Pacific-7,00O
miles in extent. This area has more to
do with making weather than any 9th
er such area on earth, because land is
and cold than water. Hence, to fore
cast weather, it is desirable to know
conditions prevailing over this land
area. 1t is this that the weather bu-
reau has arranged to do.
The arrangements just closed with
the Central Physical Observatory al
st. Petersburg will secure reports from
the points named in this great area
of land eXpansc With them the whole
realm of possibilities of weather fore,
casting will be vastly enlarged. Wash
ington for the first time will be able
to reckon intelligently with world con
ditions, ana as the experts become ia.
miliar with these conditions in detail
they will make accurate forecasts fol-
a far longer time than ever before.