Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-06-10

services will be equipped with ayia-
tors and flying machines. The kite
on windy days and the aeroplane on
quiet days viii carry instruments aloft
and bring back the pressure, tempera-
ture and direction and force OF the
wind; which, when telegraphed to
the Central Office, will enable the fore
caster 10 construct weather map on,
say, the two-miIe level viii enable
him to plot the horizontal distribution
Of pressure and temperature gradients
+ up on the free air whore the energy
+ of The storm must be the greatest i'm
portance to the pilots Of air craft, to
determine the regions of unstable
+ equilibrium, whore gradients quickly
reverse ard sWirls are frequent; and
finally, by comparing the weather
chart of the high level with the one
of sea level, to map out the vertical
gradients Of pressure ara temperature.
Then the central meteorological Office
may issue more danger warnings to
air crafts. 1t is no wild flight of fan
cy TO assume that in the near future
the weather forecaster will daily lay
out the routes of the air ships of the
air; when, for instance there shall fly
from the roof of every weather sta
ton fair way sisnat one that ad-
vises caution. or one that peremptorily
orders all crafts to come down and
be tied up; when, for instance, the
forecasts for the United States shall
say that the way is clear for all crafts
from the south and east bound for
Chicago, but that everything from the
Mississippi westward will be wreck
ed if it flies, and should await further
advices.
The geographic poles are attain
ed. Mans future most interesting haz
ardous and fruitful regions of explora.
ton and research will be the high air
and the deep earth. These fields pre-
sent enhancing possibilities.
Sounds Like a Dream.
The placing of passengers in
aluminium cases, carrying them up
wards on aereplanes to the eastward
drift above the storm stratum and
shooting them from America over to
Europe between breakfast and after
noon tea is not so wonderful a per.
Torrance as the sending of an aero
gram across the English Channel,
the transmitting OF the human voice
over a metallic circuit, or the repro
duction of words that We're uttered
by lips since closed in death. We
live in an age Of science, an inven-
ton rather than in one of literature
and art no one can forecast the out
come Of an hour The impossible of
yesterday is the commonplace of to.
day.
1t has long been the dream of the
meteorological that some day we might
forecast the character of the coming
seasons. What a wonderful conserva-
ton of human energy would result if
it We're possible to foretell the amount
of precipitation over the great cereal
plains of the world and the fruit-grow-
ing valleys, and the degree of heat or
cold Seed and labor might be saved
in Improbable years, and greater en-
ergy put forth when nature was boun,
tiful.
In the United States we have
reached the period when it is possible
TO successfully forecast the character
of the weather for the coming week"
The Professor described the Inter
national Weather Chart the data for
which is collected each morning in
Washington from the entire northern
hemisphere, and predicted that by the
further study OF the distribution of
air pressure around the world it might
be possible within the next decade to
foresee with a reasonable degree of
accuracy the character of the weather
for month in advance.