Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-13

than elsewhere In the northern hemisphere,
Now for each of these peculiar facts there
is definite reason growing out of very
singular oceanic conditions which do not
exist elsewhere the globe L Will ex-
plain them. begging close attention. because
our rare climate may seem unaccountable
It Is a we'll established fact. repeated IN
all the night school biographies, that the
coasts of Oregon and California are con-
stantly washed by a copious cold current
of between 35 and 40 degrees. This re-
markable current maintains a constant
extreme GOODNESS through the whole sum-
mer for many miles inland. that over
coats are a necessity in san francisco sum
mer afternoons, and Los Angeles enjoys
constant summer GOODNESS. This singular
summer climate of the Pacific coast is I'M
known elsewhere on the globe, just as the
Hawaiian climate Is. and from the Same
cause. For that peculiar cold ocean cur
rent turns TO the southwest and drifts down
to Hawaii, cooling our otherwise tofrlu CHI
mate That 1t does so drift Is proved by
the frequent deposit of trees ana saWloss
on the eastern side of our Island borne
from the forests of the Pacific coast inc
velocity of this current is probably between
twelve and twenty miles a day. so that II is
between three and four months in reaching
Hawaii OF course, 1t absorbs cohsldeapie
heat from the sun during its long alminer
passage but it is still cool water when IL
reaches u.s. and very greatly reduces the
normal heat of our tropical latitude. win
an ocean temperature around US ranging
probably 30 to 20 degrees at d1fIerents seat
sons of the year, ii Is Impossible for HAWAII
to share the unvaryirg torrid heats of is
lands to the west, where the sea is between
80 and 20 degrees all the year. Neither the
East nor West Indies know any such e.
mate as ours. These are the yerltapie Il of-
tunate Islands, cool and balmy.
And why are both winters and summers
pushed backward more than whofe
month? This is simply because our frlehoiy
cold current is so much behind time in ar
irving here. In early summer IL has failed
to get duly warmed up on its passage,
having set out in March, While winter colo
still prevailed In early winter also II sun
brings some of the sunshine of the August
where it started. In actual fact HaWan
for climate is a colonial dependency of the
Pacific coast as really as IT has lately pc
come politically a dependency OF ChciS
Sam dominion.
AS mentioned above, the Biographies all
specify that cold current as peculiar to the
Pacific coast. AT the same time, naturally.
following the standard authorities, they all
commit an outrageous blunder as to the
source of that current. Turn to any or the
school books and you find that cold coast
current represents as continuation OF the
great "e11lf stream of the Japan coast
otherwise known as the Japan current
or the 'Kuro Suvo." This Is vast warm
current Of great volume and strength,
which flows out of the China Sea and runs
northeast along the coast or Japan, eX-
actly as the gulf stream of the Atlantic
flows out of the Gulf of Mexico. and runs
up past tue IefiiiuudS anu
Both are very warm currents, and both run
northeast and are dissipated In crossing
their respective oceans. But since, in the
case of the Pacific ocean, an immense cold
current on the American coast has to be
accounted for, a most laundering theory
as been careiessy adopted and given gem
eral currenty Y, that the warm Japan cur
rent runs past the Aleutian Islands in lati-
tude 55 degrees. and turns down the Pa
cific coast. reduced to an exceptionally cold
temperature.
That this 4enaralIy accented theory is 1lt-
terly blunder it is only necessary to adj
duce in proof the undeniable principle that
any current of ocean air north of the
equator running northeast if DETECTED