Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-03-17
Claims Discovery Id Weather
System.
Washington Star of Saturday.

Washington Star of Saturday.
Announcement of system Of weather
forecasting that has a precision for three
weeks equal to or exceeding the precision
of the forecasts of the government for two
days is made by Prof. Willis Luther Moore,
former chief of the weather bureau. Prof.
Moore not only makes the above claim for
the new system, the invention of W. F.
Carothers, of Houston, Texas but declares
that IAN enormous conservation of human
energy in the performance of all out-of
door work should follow the adoption of
this system by the government or other
public institutions"
The most important discovery in mete-
geological science since the act Of Franklin
in drawing down the lightning of the clouds
and identifying it with electricity of the
laboratory" was Prof. Moore's characteri-
cation of the new method, when seen at
his farm, Mooreland, in Rockville today.
Mr.. Carothers has outstripped all the
government and other meteoroloeists of
the world in the search for the key to the
general law Of the weather" Prof. Moore
continued, explaining the new system.
Il have carefully examined the work
done by him during the past five years
and do not hesitate to say that he has
shown a definite relation between the ap-
pearance of storm conditions in the west
ern part Of the country and variations in
the intensity of solar radiation; that there
are riffs in the philosophers Of the sun. or
what might be called cloudless areas,
from which is emitted increased heat !;
that the sun rotates in twenty-five days,
instead of twenty-seven as indicated by
the appearance of the photosphere; that
there are from five to eight of these extra
hot areas always present in the sun and
that they may retain their existence for
many months at time. with varying de-
erees Of intensity, and each cross our CEN
trail meridian every twenty-five days; that
each and every one of the cyclones and
anti-cyclones that constitute our weather
can be traced back. by Carothers' system,
to one Of these heat pulsations of the sun,
and that the intensity of the cold waves
and storms is directly proportional to the
strength Of the solar heat riffs or cloudless
areas that there is an interval of eieh-
eigh to eighteen and one-half days be-
tween the passage of the earth through
the extra heat emitted by one of these
solar riffs and the appearance of cold
waves on our Rocky mountain plateau.
THE splendid work of c. G. Abbot, Of
the Smithsonian Institution, has shown
the variable character Of the suns radia-
ton. A working hypothesis that satisfies
the requirements Of science with regard to
this discovery may be stated as follows:
THAT the passage Of the earth through
shaft Of extra heat expands the lower
air at the equator more than 1t does at
high ATTITUDES, causing the air at the
equator to bulge upward until huge masses,
like avalanches of snow on a mountain
side, break loose and slide down the in
cline toward the poles. These masses
crowd each other because Of the converg-
ing Of the meridians of longitude, have
their northward movement checked and
drop or settle down to the earth in the form
of cool or cold waves in the middle lati-
tudes or near the Arctic circle
They settle over continents in winter
and over oceans in summer, because the
plane on which they slide is sleeper over
land in winter and over oceans in summer.
AS they settle, they cause rotating cyclonic
storm eddies to ascend on both their east
ern and western sides, and thus indirectly
cause rain and snow fall They, them
selves, are dry, because they have been
chilled and had their moisture squeezed
out by the cold Of elevation before they
started on their northward circuit from the
equator. Their period of eighteen days in
the making of the overhead trip is nearly
established by Carothers.
81 have tested the forecasts made by the
aid Of this discovery for a period of sew
eral months" Prof. Moore said, land find
that while they are not perfect. they have
an accuracy. for two or three weeks in ad-
vance, equal to or exceeding the precision
of the forecasts Of the government for two
days An enormous conservation of hui
man energy in the performance of all out
of doors work should follow the adoption
Of this system by the government or other
public institutions"