The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-22
FORECAST WEATHER
FOR ENTIRE WEEK
Probability to Which Govern
ment Experts Are Looking
Forward.
PRESENT EXPERIMENTS
VERY SUCCESSFUL
Weather Making Due Entirely
to New System of lnterna-
tiOnal Reports.
Special tc The Tribune.

Special tc The Tribune
WASHINGTON, April ,2l.-Thc pub
lication of general weather forecasts
for an entire week in advance is n prob
ability 10 which the Government
weather bureau is looking forward
Forecasts for seven days ahead arc
even now being placed each day upon
the desk Of Willis l.. Moore, chief OF
the bureau, As yet those forecasts
are regarded largely as studies, made
for practice in handling important new
data which has recently come into the
Government 8 possession. 1t may be Il
long time before the seven-day forecasts
are given to the public for general
use, and they may never supplant the
two-day forecasts now in vogue. But
the Government experts arc fast reach
ing the point where they expect TO make
use of the long-range, prophecies in
emergencies. This possibility is wealth
cr - making is due entirely TO the
new system of international reports,
which have been received by the Gov
ernmcnt during the past six months,
Careful Observations.
These reports give the results of
observations taken at widely separated
parts of the Northern hemisphere, and
Office of the weather bureau at Wash
iugton. These observations more than
treble the territory which the Govern.
ment experts have under their eyes
Heretofore the forecasters have had
only data gathered within the limits of
this country. and their vision was nee
cssarily narrowed. But with figures
before them from Alaska, Iceland, the
Farce islands. the Azores. the Bcr-
,cIn 81 t.
from n number Of points in the Brit
ish isles, from Lisbon, Paris, Hamburg,
st. Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa, Elk
stcrinberg, Tomsk and lrkutsk, the cx
perts have greatly enlarged opportupi-
ties BY watching caca day tho changes
in barometric pressure over tho entire
Northern hemisphere, Professor Edward
y. Garriott, chief of the forecast di-
vision, gets lust so much additional
restricted area for which his forecasts
arc made. for the weather here is close
w related to that In every other part
Of the Northern hemisphere.
Key to Situation
Siberia, and Nome. Alaska, the Off
cials count themselves unusually for
tunate. lrkutsls is at a strategic point.
from the weather standpoint. In no
small sense it furnishes a key TO the
meteorological situation. And strange
fact is that the figures thus far re-
ceived indicate pretty plainly that
Nome aud Irkutsk furnish a sharp con
trast, When the barometer is high at
IrIutsk it is low at Nome, even the
degrees of variation corresponding
quite closely.
The scope of the international oh
servations is expected TO grow still fur.
thcr. Tho two latest additions arc the
station at Iceland and the one at Nome
AT Nome observations are taken by
public minded civil engineer, whose
monthly pay from tho Government, $25.
would not keep him in cigars up in
vations are sent by wireloss telegraph
TO ST. Michaels, and thence TO Seattle
by the telegraph lines Of the signal
corps. The service from Europe is not
at all complicated. Each Of the sta
tions on the British isles reports to
London, which sends them on in sim
gle message, using a cipher. The Rus
sian observations are reported to st.
Petersburg, and are sent on from there,
The European observations are taken
by official meteorologIsts of the various
governments, and their cost to this
Government is limited to the cable
tolls. The tolls arc small as ono word
OF the cipher tells tho story for each
station.
Radical Advance Made,
In the face Of this marked step in adj
vance. Willis l., Moore is iudulging in
no day dreams, "Just how far ahead
we shall ultimately be able to tell tho
weather / don . care to estimate, But
do know that meteorological fore
casts can mover be made SO far ahead.