Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-10-12
MORE WEATHER DATA
Washington 20 Get Reports
From Alaska and Russia.
ST. PETERSBURG ACCEPTS PLAN
j.. u, Garri"tt. Chief Forecaster. says
observations From Central siberia
Will BE of Great Nrlue la Making
ForecHst.-Successo of Reports Sent
Out Days In Advance.


Out Days In Advance.
Sltka, Cape Nome. Dawson City,
Mukden, prtrOpavlovsk, lrkutSk, Mos
COW and St Petersburg If they don't
actually appear shortly on the weather
map of the United States will at least
be represented AS contributors of me
neurological data from which forecasts
will be made up. says Il Washington
special dispatch TO the New York
Globe.
The weather bureau recently reccly,
ed letters from st. Petersburg indicat.
ing that the cars government will ac.
cept propositions made to it some time
ago looking TO cooperation in making
weather reports. Weather Is just as
much an International commodity as
the postal service, and sort of prOto.
col has been arranged between the
hereafter the United States weather
sharps will have daily reported to them
data about weather conditions of a
region vastly greater than ever before
In fact, when the scheme is finally
worked out 10 completion the forecasts
made In Washington will be based on
reports covering Il belt almost around
the world and chiefly within the north
temperate zone.
Cooperation with Canada for n long
time has given the benefit of valuable
data from the Canadian northwest as
far as Madeleine Hat and Edmonton, y.
W. T. Beyond that, however is still
the immense area OF Alaska. and ar
rangcments are being perfected for re.
ports from this region. 1t is expected
that Dawson City, Sitka, Nome. Fair
banks and other points in this immense
northwestern empire will soon be send
ing In their daily reports. The dinicul
ty has been to get observers, and these
are now enlisting.
From Alaska 1t IS just step across
to Asia. and there, on the vast Steppes
of Siberia, is the real headquarters of
the weather industry Our supply
largely originates there TO know
what is doing In Siberia and Leyond
that In the westward continuation of
the Siberian plain which constitutes
Russia is of the greatest Importance If
the weather service is to he made of
the largest possible value.
All this has been recognized for
long time, but various matters stood in
the way. Expense is one of them. The
making of the necessary International
arrangements FOR SynchronouS ana
Identical observations of the. same phe
nomena was not easy, but the first ster
has been taken toward il in the mr..
rangement just effected with the Rus
clan weather department. The arrange
ments with Russia have been made by
correspondence. which has been in
progress for long time. with the Cen.
tral Physical observatory, st. Peters
burg.
L. b. Garriott, chief fOrecaster in
Washington, explaining the si-nih
canoe of the arrangement that has
been accepted by the Russians said:
Russia has Il system of gathering
weather data much similar to ours. but
they don't go in for forecastng vet SO
TAR as we do. In fact, they make little
OF that feature. But they take obser-
Vations, and these are of great yalne
to us especially those covering the
great Lake Baikal region in central
siberia. This is the center of n vast
region of primary meteorological nc.
tlon' especially important in the win.
Ter season. We have wanted the re-
ports from there and are finally to get
them"
weather In the northern hemisphere
travels III Il general way from west TO
east. The forecasters in Washington
recently sent out more than three days
IN advance specific and urgent warn
lhgs of the approach of the great gulf
storm. Two days before it arrived
they forecasted that it would be espe
clally damaging and severe in the cen.
tral gulf region, and more than twenty.
four hours before it struck they named
Pensacola as the probable center of
the extreme severity. Every forecast
was fully borne out by the event.
If that could be achieved on the basis
or reports covering very small seq
ment of the earth's surface-a segment
including the United States, some re-
ports from Canada and Il few from the
West Indian and Caribbean region
what might be done with daily obscr
Vatlons gathered from practically all
the land area of the north temperate
zone.
Mr.. Garrlott declared that already
some experimental use of these long
distance reports had been made, though
the results had not yet been used pub
hcly, because the bureau was feeling
It's way before attempting long range
forecasts. But the experimental use Of