The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-01-21
FORECASTS WEATHER or YEAR
French Scientist Says Man couie
Know Outlook Far Ahead.

Know Outlook Far Ahead.
Teisserenc Debort, the distinguished
meterologist, believes that real pro
gress at last has been made In the
direction of determining In advance
the general character OF the seasons
Wise and continued observation Of
the behavior Of the atmospheric move
ments and ocean currents seem to him
to establish the already certain gen
eral laws and furnish hope that mar
soon will be able 20 predict weather
months beforehand.
For thirty years have been study
ing the movements OF the centers o.
high and low pressure" Debort says
Il observe certain interesting and suE
costing phenomena, For instance. In
the summer, when the oceanic high
pressures. whose center is In the
neighborhood of the Azores, remain
south OF England and west Of Europe,
we enjoy normal weather and clear
skies. ss
If the contrary, the high pressnres
are driven back toward the South,
they leave the field clear for atmos-
pheric worthless with low pressurss
which ordinarily remain in the alti
tude of Iceland, and west winds With
gentle winds predominant In Western
Europe. If the high pressures reas
cend to the North without expanding
over Europe we have cold winds, rain
and hail In winter.
Equally interesting facts are OBJ
served now as to the differences in the
temperature of the marine currents,
like the gulf stream influence on the
behavior of atmospheric depression,
prof. Hildebrandson, the Swedish
savant, mas given some years Of study
to the relations Of high and low pres
sure areas and the marine currents,
Frem one series Of suggestive curves
he has drawn the curious fact that Il
is made clear that the temperature Of
North Cape summer IL the opposite Of
that of Iceland the next springtime,
THE spring In the northern part 81
NORTH America is the same character
as the weather In Iceland In the March
year preceding. Likewise he ID able
to deduce from observations in Iceland
what will be the character OF the sea
son in New Foundland six months
later. The behavior OF the atmos-
pheric pressure at the North Cape Id
the springtirhe Is regularly the oppo.
site Of that Of the corresponding sea
son reported from Hungary"
From these and similar facts Tsis-
serene Debort concludes, there is
every reason to believe that more
widely extended observations would
reveal the laws which would make II
possible to foretell the seasons any
where.
He regards 1t as absurd that man
should continue to live on earth ig-
norant of the atmospheric laws which
| to SO great degree affect his happi-
ness and prosperity,
He declares that the earth is now 70
widely populated with intelligent
| races, with telegraph reaching every
where. that # only Is necessary 20 es.
tablsh an intelligent cooperative
study OF the atmosphere to enable
man to predict weather as positively
as the phases of the moon or the APP
| pearance of comets
He has great hopes that good re.
! suits viii attend the establishment or
the Monaco conference last May OF an
organization for cooperative metero-
logical reports in all parts of the
world, from Spit2bergen to the South
Pacific islets. Man Id just beginning
to understand that he needn't be the
ignorant victims Of the weather.
Paris Cor. Chicago Tribune.
Death Traps in the Rockies.
In some OF the high plateaux or
mesas of the Rocky mountains there
| are to be found, short distance
from the edge, cracks or assures not
more than -four feet wide and often as
much as eighty feet deep, During the
terrific billiards thsf rage in the win
ter these creviceS re filled to the
level. and cattle and horses who are
not acquainted with the country fro