Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-10-04
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 PerceptlbIy Affected by
Spots on the Sun.

Washington.-The hot wave that
this country experienced this summer
has been of unprecedented duration,
according to weather experts ut the
central office of the United States
weather bureau here. There have
been short durations of month or
less when the temperatures were high
or than during the recent hot weather.
but never before, the weather men be
lieve, certainly not in the last fifty or
sixty years whose temperature records
have been dug into, have abnormal
temperatures been so everlaStinEly on
the Job.
Even last winter. which we rcmcrn-
bcr as an extremely mild one, was. lie
hcginnin. of the extended heat wave
In the eastern and central states, easi
OF the Rockies. for the last IL months.
excepting only November. temper
aturcS have been consistently highei
than the average temperature over &
long stretch Of years. which Is taseU
as standard
The people Of Boston have been liv
inz i'm Philadelphia during the frs
six months of This year. so far as tern
perature is concerned, Alfred !. Hen
ry, meteoroincist at tie weather bu-
reau has found. The average temper
atmre of Boston has been abnOrmally
high. and from January TO June has
cqualcd that usually experienced in
Philadelphia.
Gets Virginia Weather.
New York, Americas center of com
EIerce has been ihermometrically 10
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
oliaa.
out in the middle West, the same
,southward, climatic travel has oc-
Cured. Des Moines, II il We're locat-
ed ON the map by It's 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
perature. for the month was % de-
grees warmer than any other month.
normal. That city has been so con-
tinually hot that the average temper
allure for July Is higher than the av-
erage normal highest temperature.
while the average minimum ternpera-
tire for the month Is 81 degrees high
er than the normal monthly mean.
Twelve July days of above 80 degrees
weather broke all previous records.
and 81 days when the temperature
was continually above normal were
other record breakers. The accumu-
lated excess temperature at Chicago
from the first of the year TO the end
Of July has been the large total OF
] 1853 degrees. This means that since
January 1, the average daily excess
i'm temperature has been SO degrees.
The southwestern parts of the coun-
try and most of the Pacific coast have
been fortunate enough TO miss most
ar the present hot weather. During
The past months, there have been def
ciencies I'm temperature in those re-
gions rather than cNceSSes.
Europe Also Hit.
Western Europe has also expert
cnccd similar continued hot weather.
according to data that have reached
here. and II has been accompanied by
lack of rain and Is causing drought in
England and France. How the rest
of the world Is affected. weather hui
reau officials Il" not know, as data
from other sources have come in very
slowly and are meager.
The theory that sunspots have any.
thing 10 do with the hot spell IS scout
ed by Prof Charles F. Marvin, chief
of the weather bureau. Some scien-
lists in Europe and this country have
declared that there IS evidently some
connection. but Professor Marvin, az
tor examining the data that have been
obtained on the intensity OF the radi-
alton during the presence and absence
Of sun spots. has come 10 the con
clusion that atmospheric temperatures
are not perceptibly affected by spots
on the sun.
''We find that the temperatures ard
rainfall seem 70 vary with. the pres
sures of the atmosphere, particularly
In the so-called .centers of actiuR'
which seem 10 be critical points for
atmospheric changes" Professor Mar
vim states. "These large air move
ments caused by pressure changes
seem TO be real causes OF temperature
changes and precipitation, but we
have yet to learn what causes them"
The long hot spell that we have
been experiencing is no sure sign that
: twill. continue and that we will have
a late fall. according to Prof. J. War.
rem Smith who studies the weather
, and its. influence on, crops and out
door operations.
The most recent hot spells that d.
not equal the present one In Length
but exceed 1t In temperature occurred
during July. 1901, and August. 1919
according TO 2. C. Day. climatolosis'