New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-09
THE WHY OF THE WEATHER.

Harvey N. Watts. in The London Chronicle
There is no question that for one reason
or another all Northern Europe this sum
Iler seems TO be weather mao. The man in
the street as well the talker in the morn
ing train who does not know a meteoroogi-
cal hawk from a handSaW has his opinion
about what Is called the unusual, the I'M
pIecedented, the abnormal weather, al
though he does not use such polite terms in
his damning classification. Within the last
TWO years the disposition of the average
pursuit. in which for centuries the unof-
Tending moon has played the leading part
of susDect-has led to his connecting every
terrestrial and celestial event from the Mes
Sina earthquake Of 1903 to Hailey's very dis
appointing and fatuous comet of 1910 with
the @o-called peculiar weather that has pre-
vailed
Just now people in France and in Eng
land are becoming excited over the expIana-
and startling by Camille Flammarion and
lis followers. that the weather of Western
Europe is breWed in the United States and
that the recent cold and wet spells in
France and England are a direct result of
the prevalence of hot waves on the North
American Continent All this has been set
cabling back and forth to America, with
the puhiics ton of much neWSpa per COM
inent. foreign and English. which would
see n to indicate that the new theory was
a contribution Of weight which called out
FOR A suspension of judgment on account of
It's great and momentous novelty.
The real 2ist Of the weather situation is
.hiS and II should reasSure any French or
English citizen who fears any American in
vason other than that OF dollars: First,
il Is eterDuilv true that all the Weather
movements IL the Northern Hemisphere
north of the tropics come from west to
east: second. that i'm the North Atlantic
n Sin, specifically the hot waves in the
United States and the wet weather III
France are the result of the very same pre-
dIsDosil,L cause. This predisposng cause,
which ia tie United states nanifests itsef
in the form of hot wave and in these lati-
tudes in the form of the prevalIlns most
IRE laden oceanic winds. is the very famli-
lar tropical high pressure area, or, as IL Is
called IN the Technology or the Ineieoroio-
gists, the Atlantic anu-cyclohe- ne no, nor
wave IN the United States. therefore. does
moi cause directly or indirectly. contrast
ing stata Of weather in Western Europe.
since it IS in itself an effect OF me Ee tdT
condition. but the abnormal weather iltIe
and here-hot and moist, and cold ano Wet
is simply due to the persistence OF h!gil
pressure in the sub-tropic.a5l Reits VI 'iIe
So long as these DreSSures continue hlsl
in the Gulf States and over the Atlantic
from the BaY Of Charleston TO SPAN so
long win there be set up over the Chl ne.
STATES the deadly south TO north aeTlaI CIR
|rIIatfon which is always the factof ana
featl1r. OF the American hot wave. ana so
1opsI a. these high pressures tend 10 be-
COMO fixed the phrase goes, 10 Tue
south of England and central over me me
acrae NTH more or less excessive seasofai
i.aSsIras SO long viii this belt OF high
ipress1Ire--the Atlantic anti-cyclone-ca 'i
winds over western Europe, WIN
rs sta consequences noted this year ana
; az rs ne moisture laden winds reach re-
i i:.,,.e favorable for condensation.
BloiS ir,nalIv new thing ia meteoroiogy
3, a.. Taef that worldwide conditions are
-, = IN rounded up every day by means OF
DELE DELE I9nd lines and wireless telegraplS'
caDi,, :. - ave on the eve of great inter
{ il.atl III development of forecasting, which
Viii be OF inestmapl;e yaine TO s9G ro Go IN
IT. IT, rost eastward swirl of the norm
III ..,,e7aIe zone circulation
hnd The newest fact Of al T. thh' ~ ~
<s'.;Sns II, this swift are moi due ~ lo''al
= ss,t,ne in the United states ana err
,,I,ere but 80 variations in the ,il,er
- e-ui.,,,a oyyf afz not due 10 local conhl,
~, - ~, the earth itself bat +" yearly sh'
i" on, ...nr.. changes IL tie -a.-1 radi3,l"H'