The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-10-27
LONG SIEGE OF
FREAK WEATHER
World Is Slowly Recovering From
Severe Attack of Meteoro-
logical MumpS.
EXPECT PATIENT TO SURVIVE
United States Suffers Chiefly From Elk
cess of High Temperature and De-
~ficiency of Moisture-Some
Recent Disasters.

{ New York.-The old spherold know
as the earth is emerging from wha
some human diagnOsticians might cal
a severe attack OF meteorological
humps. 1t has been accompanied b.
an intermittent fever, manifested in
worldwide heat wave of nusua
length and intensity. In spite of crises
and relapses, earthquakes, tidal waves
cl%oudbursts, typhoons, waterspouts
hailstorms, floods and hurricanes il
many widely separated parts, from
Kamchatka to Cape Horn and from
Guam to Guadalupe, the doctors are
confident the patient will recover
Meanwhile the United States for the
last year has been suffering chiefly
from an excess of high temperature
and q deficiency of moisture, a cOndi-
ton unprecedented in the fifty years
history of the weather bureau.
Suffers Heat Waves.
The persistent higher temperatures,
for which a number Of speculative ex-
plantations have been given, began in
August, 1920, and for the succeeding
, twelve months there al an average
monthly excess above normal of 3.4
degrees. March, 1921, an unusually
warm spring month, had an excess av-
erage of 1913 degrees. The first slight
break-in the record occurred last Au-
gust, which was slightly below normal.
In the nine months period beginning
in October, 1918, and ending In July.
1919, the average monthly temperature
was 2.71 degrees above normal, and
this was a record until sun spots, sea
| bottom upheavals or other hypothetical
causes sent the mercury still higher.
The highest average temperature ever
recorded in this country for the month
of March, weather officials say, was
1873, in March, 1921.
The average temperature for April,
1921-55 degrees-was the warmest for
that month in half a century. May and
June. were not unusual, but July broke
all records for the preceding eleven
years.
Weather bureau officials here de-
clined to discuss the possible connec-
ton between the present high tempera-
lures and disasters Of nature in many
parts of the world.
A glance back for recent disasters
and natural phenomena shows the
following:
Two million Koreans starving in
Manchuria owing to drought-ruined
crops.
Three hundred buildings wrecked
and many killed by hailstorm and wa
terspout at Baez, Cuba.
Three volcanoes, Villarica, Llama
and Lanin, spout flames more than a
thousand FEET from c~raters.
Drought kills fish in river Seine and
France suffers most severe drought in
At years.
Rhine and Moselle rivers do great
damage in highest flood in 1876 years.
Cloudburst and hailstorm damage at
Italy.
Mount Vesuvius shows activity and
shock is felt from Leghorn
to Lake Lugino.
Italian destroyers carry inhabitants
to safety as volcano StrOmboli re-
activity.
Damage of several million drachmas
done in Greece by sever hailstorms. {
Earth Blocks Canal. 1
Earth blocks Corinth canal.
Cyclone de~vastates three towns in
:
Volcano Kilauea in Hawaii spouts
fountains of lava. /.
Activity of the volcano ~Popocatapetl
n Mexico increasing. :
Earthquake shakes Vera Cruz and I
other cities. .
Lightning strikes oil wells, causing
of dollars damage in TamptcO :
nd other districts. :
Mexicans pray to water goddess" to :
drought.
Volcano Colima in Jalisco is In erup- :
ion. :
Many lives lost in waterspout which I
estroyed part of Tangier, Morocco. !.
Volcano Masaya in Nicaragua III :
=
Typhoon and floods in Philippines. !
nd especially on island of Luzon, do I
reat damage. &
Six new craters opened at Mount q
;alco, Salvador. =
Waterspout in Maia-Doura, province 4
Spain, damages crops and villages. Z
Heat in the Alps causes glaciers to =
rink and nine mountain climbers are :
He'd. Z
Seventy-five dead in tornadoes which Z
southern United States. =
Flood mandates Pueblo, causing S40.- =
5000 property loss. =
Forty-seven perish in San Antonio Z
'exas) flood. =
One consolation of the freak wealth =
however, is the prospect of an y
pen winter" :