Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13
PUSH WEATHER MAP.
UNITED STATES FORECASTS WILL
EXTEND NoRTHWARD.
Washington Weather Men Hereafter
to Reckon with World Conditions
Instead of with Those of America
Alore-Hemisphere 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 lrkutsk,
Tomsk and Ekaterinburg, in Siberia.
In addition, the Icelandic low" which
means the area of low winter barom-
eter of the North Atlantic, soon Will
begin making reports by scable. 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 COW
ers conditions in the South Atlantic
region, including Lisbon. 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
isphere will report daily on its weather
conditions to the bureau in Washing
ton. There will still be large gaps; as,
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 tbs
Pacific by the great circle" roES1A
Nome, Alaska, for the time being, wiz
be the extreme report from American
territory to the far Northwest. AS soon
as possible which means when observ-
ers can be engaged-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.
"We will be able" said Chief Garri-
oft of the Chicago weather bureau, lat
least to notify the Kansas farmer Of
the outlook for weather long enough in
advance to enable him to pick a propi-
tious harvest week. 1t is not only
important to tell what the weather
will be, but to tell how long it will
To- r. ~ rai,,u ond n
fair week. We will be able to inform
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. A State fair manage
ment 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,O0O
miles in extent. This area has more to
do with making weather than any 9th
er such area ON earth, because land is
subject to greater extremes of heat
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 at
St Petersburg will secure reports from
the points named in this great area
of land expanse. 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 intelllgently with world con-
ditions, and as the experts become IA
miliar with these conditions in detail
they will make accurate forecasts for
far longer time than ever before.