The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-04
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 Ex-
cess Of High Temperature and De-
fciency of Moisture-Some
Recent Disasters.

New York.-The old spheroid known
as the earth is emerging from what
some human diagnOsticians might call
severe attack of meteorological
humps. 1t has been accompanied by
an intermittent fever, manifested in u
worldwide heat wave of unusual
length and intensity. In spite of crises
and relapses, earthquakes, tidal waves,
cloudbursts, typhoons, waterspouts,
hailstorms, floods and hurricanes in
many widely separated parts, from
Kamchatka to Cape Horn and from
Guam to GuadalOupe, 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 a deficiency Of moisture, 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
Au6uotp lO-Ot anu lOA thC ouNNCCNih6
twelve months there was 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, 1913, and ending in July,
1919, the average monthly temperature
was 2.71 degrees above normal, and
this was 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
48.3, in March, 1921.
The average temperature for April,
1926 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 craters.
Drought kills fish In river Seine and
France suffers most severe drought in
AZ years.
Rhine and Moselle rivers do great
damage in highest flood In 1875 years.
Cloudburst and hailstorm damage at
Rome, Italy.
Mount Vesuvius shows activity and
earthquake shock Is felt from Leghorn
to Lake Lugino.
Italian destroyers carry inhabitants
to safety as volcano Stromboli re-
sumes activity.
Damage of several million drachmas
done In Greece by severe hailstorms.
Earth Blocks Canal.
Earth blocks Corinth canal.
Haiti.
Volcano Kilauea In Hawaii spouts
immense fountains Of lava.
Activity of the volcano Popocatapetl
In Mexico increasing.
Earthquake shakes Vera Cruz and
four other cities.
Lightning strikes oil wells, causing
millions of dollars damage in TampicO
and other districts.
Mexicans pray to "water goddess" to
end drought.
Volcano Colima In Jalisco Is in erup-
ton.
Many lives lost in waterspout which
destroyed part of Tangier, Morocco.
Volcano Masaya In Nicaragua In
eruption.
Typhoon and floods In Philippines.
and especially on island of Luzon, do
great damage.
Six new craters opened at Mount
Izalco, Salvador.
Wate@spout In Maia-Doura, province
Of Spain, damages crops and villages.
Heat in the Alps causes glaciers to
shrink and nine mountain climbers are
killed.
Seventy-five dead In tornadoes which
sweep southern United States.
Flood mandates Pueblo, causing S10,-
100000 property loss.
Forty-seven perish In San Antonio
(Texas) flood.
One consolation Of the freak wealth
er, however, Is the prospect of an
"open winter"
Find Buried Treasure.