The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-09-09
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 that
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 a month or
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 or
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 I'm Philadelphia during the first
six months of this year, so far as tenn
perature Is concerned, Alfred J. Hen
ry, meteorOlOgiSt at the weather bu-
reau has found. The average temper
ature 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
merce. has been thermometrically To-
Gated for the same period in Washing
ton. the governmental center of the
country, while Washington has been
J shifted southwark and located on the
boundary of Virginia and North Car
oliaa.
Out In the middle West, the same
southwark climatic travel has Oc-
| Cured. Des Moines, If 1t were 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
1eratureI for the month was % de-
..rees warmer than any other month,
Lille 1t 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-
ture for the month Is p degrees high
er than the normal monthly mean.
Twelve July days OF above 90 degrees
weather broke all previous records,
and "a 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
1,753 degrees This means that since
January 1, the average daily excess
In temperature has been S.3 degrees
The southwestern parts OF the coun-
try and most OF the Pacific coast have
been fortunate enough TO miss most
OF the present hot weather. During
the past months. there have been def
ciencies In temperature In those re-
gions rather than excuses.
Europe Also Hit.
Western Europe has also expert
enced similar continued hot weather,
| -.
here. and it has been accompanied by
lack Of rain and Is causing drought In
England and France. How the rest
OF the world Is affected, weather bu-
reau officials do not know, as data
from other sources have come I'm very
slowly and are meagef.
The theory that sunspots have any
thing To do with the hot spell is scout
ed by Prof. Charles F. Marvin, chief
of the weather bureau. Some scien-
lists I'm Europe and this country have
declared that there Is evidently some
connection. but Professor Marvin. af-
ter 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.
I'VE find that the temperatures and
rainfall seem to vary with the pres
sures Of the atmosphere. particularly
in the so-called 'centers Of action
which seem TO be critical points for
atmospheric changes Professor Mar
win states. These large air move
ments caused by pressure changes
seem 70 be real causes OF temperature
changes and precipitation. but we
have yet 10 learn what causes them.
The long hot spell that we have
been experiencing is no sure sign that
IL will 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 do
not equal the present one in length
but exceed IL In temperature occurred
during July. 1901, and August. 1918.
according TO +. c. Day climatologist
at the weather bureau.