Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-19
BALMY AIR is EXPLAINED
Cold Northwest Winds Unable to
Overcome Southeast Breexes.
WINTER GALES IN CALIFORNIA
Snowstorms Block Travel to East
and North and Send Wires
Down in Oregon.

cold winds from the northwest, hat
Ting against warm breczes from the
southeast and getting the worst Of the
encounter. have caused the summery
temperatures that have made oyercosts
uncomfortable throughout the east the
past Few days. according TO Or Harry
u Frankenfield. chief forecastcr of tho
weather bureau. Several times during
the winter. the weather sharp stated
seasonable winter weather has made
an eHort TO down the balmy temporal
lures brought up from the gulf hut
eacl eHort has failed. or at the most
mas made good only for a day or So
Wills Moore. chief OF the weather
bureau, who. IL appears. is anxious to
drop the thermometer. barometer. rain
gauge and thermometer for the port
folio OF Secretary of Agriculture. said
last night that weather is breeding for
the District of Columbia and the en-
tire east. Just what kind Of weather
when 1T is going TO reach this part OF
the country and how long il will re-
main Prof. Moore declines to state
definitely.
Change Coming Soon.
Atmospheric conditions over the
American continent may be likened to
nothing so aptly as bubbling call
dron. which soon is to boil over" Is
the way Henry r. Williams. assistant
chief of the weather bureau. put II.
and when il does il will mean "A
change in weather conditions i'm every
part of the country. The trouble is
that no one can tell just at what point
the caldron will boil over"
with high pressure over the middle
ND In i'm. oplr
and the northwest. such We have
been having for the last two months"
is the more technical explanation OF
DIR. Frankenfield, chief forecaster. 1--WE
can have nothing but warm weather.
To get a change these conditions must
be reversed, that u.s. the pressure must
become high In the northwest and low
over the middle Atlantic ocean. This
of cold air from the northwest. When
this will occur. however L do not
know
Two Weather Records Broken.
Several times this month disturb
ances have attempted to make their
way out of the northwest toward the
Atlantic coast. but always the result
ant weather has been of short dura-
ton. So far this month two weather
records have been broken. One was
fornia, and the other the low pressure
record of the southeastern states.
The temperature has been more nearly
normal in Minnesota and the Dakotas.
while 1t has been generally above the
normal elsewhere, especially in the At
lantic coast states. Yesterday the above
normal cities were: New York. . de-
grees: Washington, 70: Boston. IS: Phila-
delphia, "a; Pittsburgh, -; Chicago. 10:
Cleveland. %; st. Louis, 3; Denver. 2.
The Pacific coast generally has been
about normal most Of the winter.
Binding Snowstorms in California.
: SAN FRANCISCO. January ls.-winter
gales and binding snowstorms landslides
and snowslides blocked travel today be-
tween California and the east and north.
The Southern Pacific and the Western
Pacific lost their wires in the Sierras.
Trains were late, they knew. but how
late they had no means of learning.
Two inches of rain fell and the Sacra-
mento river rose feet inches over
night at Kennel, Cal.
Snow Silences Oregon Wires.
PORTLAND, Ore. January 1s.-A man.
tie of heavy. wet snow settled over the
Willamette valley last night. cutting off
for several hours practically all wire
communication between this city and the
outside world. Railroad trains, however,
arrived on schedule.