Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-07-06
WEATHER OFFICIALS
TALK Of INTENSE GOLD
Disaster Is Predicted
In The Near
Future

People of honolulu labor under
misrepresentation of the facts if they
think that this is the only place en-
joying an extraordinary spell of
weather
Around New York City all the ey-
pert soOthsayers are predicting the
| destruction of the city and disap-
bearance of a good part of the land
of Manhattan Island beneath the
sea. One man has set the date for
this disaster in August and another
says that the light of the whole
world will go out sometime in 1908.
The Weather Bureau has, how
ever, come to the rescue with a
| few facts to straigAten out the per-
sons who have said or believe that
there has never been such weather
! known since man kept the records. A
Washington dispatch has the follow
ing interesting information on the
subject:
AS to the causes of the unseason-
able weather conditions the experts
of the Weather Bureau have two
facts and one theory.
Practically every bit of the cold
air that has been rushing down from
the northwest converting the mer-
ny month of May into one of dis
Neartening chilliness, has come from
the direction of Siberia.
The second fact is that it has
come in such great volumes that it
las leaped over the natural barriers
found in the mountains of British
Columbia and spread over the North
west, the Middle West, around the
Great Lakes. to New York and New
England and so far south as Kan
sas. Why this is SO, the Weather
Bureau can only speculate.
I'VE have an idea" said Prof. II.
c. Frankenfeld of the forecast divi-
sion, that an extraordinary amount
of snow has fallen in Siberia during
the last five or six months. All the
heat has apparently radiated from
lit, leaving an intensely cold mass
covering the earth.
Arctic winds blowing over that
mass of snow and ice do not have
their temperature raised to any APP
, reciable extent before they hit the
American continent. There is nc
/ doubt about the course of the cold
: winds that have served to make the
eldest inhabitants speak of this
! spring as if it were the coolest in
human experience, which it is not.
eve get daily cable report from
Alaska and know that there has
been a regular procession of areas
: of high pressure moving from the
west to the east. That is the usual
lcourse of these northern areas OF
thigh pressure. The only fact out OF
the ordinary is that their influence
is felt so far south so late in the
YEAR Ordinarily the effect of them
is lost by the time the winds reach
the northern boundary Of the coun'
try in the region east of the Rocky
Mountains. The only conclusion we
can draw is that the areas of high
pressure are much larger than usual
"All that is pure speculation we
have no reports from the interior OF
Siberia. Our outpost is in Alaska
The Weather Bureau people have
printed documents to confound the
oldest inhabitants who insist there
never was anything like this spring
Frof. Frankenfeld, with much SHOW
CT bulky volumes, said that th'
Stirring of 1882 was worse. Elgh
: wears before that the records were
lust as bad as this year. Two years
before the war between the State
the oldest inhabitants said there
!, had been neither spring nor summer
Put the weather men of that yea
called attention to 1871, Whel
there was frost in every month 0
the year.
If there were any Oldest inhabit
ants that year who needed silencine
the records of 1916 were produced
That is the worst year the histor
Of meteorology tells about. Their
were killing frosts that year in ever
month except August.
There has been no such record o
killing frosts, this spring. Their
have been heavy frosts, but snow
the thing that has caused the mos
talk There has been snow later thi
year than any authentic records shoN
previously. In 1894 there was snoN
in Chicago on May "a, but this yea
there was snow three days later tina
that and Monday night produce
freezing weather in Southwestern
Kansas.
Although he will not talk for put
LEGATION, it is known that Secretar
Wilson is not at all alarmed abou
the crops.
During May the most abnormf
temperature has been in upper Micf
lgan There the deficiency has bee