The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-09-06
RECORDS BROKEN
BY HOT WEATHER
This Summers Torrid Spell Sur
passed All Others in the
Length of Its Stay.
SCOUTS THEORY OF SUNSPOTS
Chief of the Weather Bureau Says
Atmospheric Temperatures Are
Not PerceptibIy Affected by
Spots on the Sun.

Washington=The hot wave tina
this country experienced this summer
has been of unprecedented duration
according to weather experts at the
central office of the United States
| weather bureau here. There have
been short durations of month OF
| less when the temperatures were high
er than during the recent hot weather
but never before, the weather men be
lieve, certainly not in the last fifty OF
. sixty years whose temperature records
have been dug into have abnormal
| temperatures been so everlastingly on
| the job.
| Even last winter, which we remem-
| Der as an extremely mild one, was the
beginning of the extended heat wave.
| In the eastern and central states, east
of the Rockies, for the last IL months,
excepting only November, temper
atures have been consistently higher
than the average temperature over a
long stretch of years, which is taken
as standard.
The people of Boston have been liv-
ing in Philadelphia during the first
six months of this year, so far as tenn
perature is concerned, Alfred J. Hen
ry, meteorological at the weather bu-
reaH has found The average temper
allure of Boston has been abnormally
high, and from January to June has
equaled that usually experienced in
Philadelphia.
Gets Virginia Weather.
New York. Americas center of com
MERGE has been thermometrically To-
Gated for the same period in Washing
ton, the governmental center of the
country, while Washington has been
shifted southwark and located on the
boundary of Virginia and North Car
DINA.
Out in the middle West the same
southwark climatic travel has oc-
Cured. Des Moines, if it were locat-
ed on the map by its temperature
would be set down in southwestern
Missouri. Professor Henry has found.
Chicago has however, been the hot
spot of the country this summer, an
analysis of reports show. July was
the hottest month that that city has
had for 81 years. Its average tenn
grees warmer than any other month,
while it was S.S degrees higher than
normal. That city has been so con-
tinually hot that the average temper
AZURE for July is higher than the av-
erage normal highest temperature,
while the average minimum tempera-
lure for the month is 81 degrees high
ar than the normal monthly mean.
Twelve July days of above 80 degrees
weather broke all previous records, !
md "a days when the temperature |
vas continually above normal We're !
,ther record breakers The accumu- /
ated excess temperature at Chicago |
rom the first Of the year to the end
If July has been the large total of |
,753 degrees. This means that since
January l. the average daily excess
n temperature has been S3 degrees.
The southwestern parts of the coun-
ry and most of the Pacific coast have
een fortunate enough to miss most
# the present hot weather. During
he past months, there have been def
iencies in temperature in those re-
ions rather than excesses
Europe Also Hit.
Western Europe has also expert
need similar continued hot weather,
to data that have reached
ere, and it has been accompanied by *
ack of rain and is causing drought in
'ngland and France How the rest
( the world is affected. weather bu-
eau officials do not know, as data
rom other sources have come in very
owly and are meager.
The theory that SunspOts have any
ling to do with the hot spell is scout {
by Prof Charles F. Marvin. chief
the weather bureau. Some scien-
SITS in Europe and this country have
eclared that there is evidently some
but Professor Marvin. af- :
r examining the data that have been
)tained on the intensity of the radi-
ion during the presence and absence
sun spots. has come to the con-
usion that atmospheric temperatures
'e not perceptibly affected by spots
the sun.
1--WE find that the temperatures and :
infall seem to vary with the pres
res of the atmosphere, particularly :
the so-called 'centers of action
hich seem to be critical points for
changes, Professor Mar
n states. ''These large air move
ants caused by pressure changes
EN- to be real causes of temperature 6
anges and precipitation. but we
We yet TO learn what causes them"
The long hot spell that we have r
en- experiencing is no sure sign that >
will continue and that we Will have
late fall. according to Prof J. War
4 Smith who studies the weather
d its Influence on crops and out
or operations.
The most recent hot spells that do "
t equal the present one in length
exceed it in temperature occurred
ring July. 1901. and August. 1918, -
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