The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-02
Weather

Yesterday was the anniversary of
the birth of Brigham Young, but that
fact made no difference to the weather
man. He went on with his nasty work
with an utter and Haunting disregard
quite as bad as that which character
lied his acts during the last month.
Yesterday the weather man made il
rain cold, wet, rain, caused people to
use language that is entirely unfit for
publication.
The weather man gave a tempera
ture that was responsible for frost,
bit of it, at least, and he warmed the
cookies of his heart only to the extent
of 81 degrees. He says il is going to
be fair today if nothing happens. Fair
is the indication based on the work
ing out Of the weather, map.
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In connection with the weather, il
may be not amiss to call attention to
the Geographic dispatch printed yes
terday morning in The Herald under
Washington date which fOrecasted the
weather for the week
1t is not known whether the bureau
at Washington will keep up the prac-
tice OF sending out weekly forecasts.
or whether the one sent out Sunday
night is merely an experiment or
prompted by the unusual weather con-
out the country during recent weeks.
II is said by weather experts that the
weekly forecasts. if they can be fur
nished with a reasonable degree of ac-
curacy, will be of inestmable benefit
to thousands of farmers, stockmen,
and. indeed. to every one whose eT-
forts depend even in the remotest de-
gree on good or i'll weather.
People make plans for the future
largely upon what they believe the
weather TO be. If they are officially
assured in advance that the weather
for a week will be this or that, they
will be the more enabled to lay their
plans accordingly. An accurate fore
cast for a week would be invaluable.
1t would be far better than the daily
forecast, for the reason that people
generally make up their minds what
they are going to do tomorrow, any
way, before they see the weather fore
cast.
The weather branch of the govern
ment service has for years been plan
ming a system of weekly forecasts.
About a year ago Professor Willis l.
Moore, the chief of the service, an
nOunced that the system would soon
be inauguTated. but no date was fixed
for the beginning. 1t is possible and,
indeed. probable, that the first of
June marked the starting of this de-
parture.
Heretofore weather forecasts have
been limited TO a period of not more
than sixty hours. The extension of
the telegTaphic and telephone ser
vice however. has made il much more
easy 10 obtain information of condi-
lions elsewhere, and upon conditions
elsewhere are based the forecasts for
the locality in which they are an
nOunCed.
1t may not be generally known. but
il is nevertheless a fact, that Siberia
exercises a most important influence
on the weather of this country. 1t has
been noted. with accurate and pains
taking regularity, that the high or low
pressures which prevail in Siberia in
any stated space of time, as a month,
are almost invariably duplicated in
this country thirty days later, with
notifications, of course.
One of the obstacles has been the alb
sence Of a weather service-at least, a
reliable one-iR Russia and the result
ing absence of information from ST.
berian points Lines of cOmmunica-
ton, however, are being extended even
in Siberia, and pretty soon the people
Of Salt Lake will know how cold il is
in Irkutsk without the necessity of
sending a cablegTam.
Alaska also exercises a potent in
huence on weather conditions in this
country. The weather service has al
ready established a number of sta
tions in that territory and as the tel
egraph and telephone expand, weather
dope" will be more readily obtaina-
BILE
Most of the European countries have
weather bureaus. Each morning in
formation is cabled to Washington
about the latest weather happenings In
the Alps or at Genoa. and Washing
ton reciprocates. There are also sta
tons i'm some of the South American
countries which contribute to the gay
ETY. of International weather caprice.