The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-10-03
Mother Earth Recovering
From a Severe Attack of
meteorological Mumbs"
In Spite of Crisis and Relapses
the Doctors Are Confident
Patient Will Recover
(By the Associated Press)

sphere known as the earth is emerg |
ing from what some human diagnos.
ticians might call severe attack Of
meteorological mumps. 1t has been
accompanied by an intermittent fever
manifested in world wide heat wave
Of unusual length and intensity. In
spite OF crisis and relapses-earth
quakes, tidal waves, cloud bursts, ty-
phoons, water spouts, hail storms,
floods and hurricanes in many widely
separated parts from Kamchatka to
Cape Horn and from Guam to Guada.
lupe-the doctors are confident the
patient will recover.
Has Excess of High Temperature
Meanwhile, the earth for the last
year has been suffering chiefly from
an excess Of high temperatures and
deficiency Of moisture, n condition un-
precedented in the fifty year history
of the weather bureau. From Jan.
/, to Sept. %, last the temperature
Of New York City which is typical OF
the country, has shown an aggregate
excess of warmth Of SO degrees
above normal, while there has been
a shortage of ell inches in rainfall.
The greatest amount September, pre-.
cipitated 1882 when more than 14k
inches fell and the least for that
month occurred two years with only
10 hundreds of an inch.
Persistent high temperatures for
which a number of speculative ex-
plantations have been given in August,
1920. and in the II successive months
there was IN excess above normal oi
3.l degrees. March. 1921. an unus-
ualy warm spring month, had an ex-
cess average OF 1913 degrees.
The first slight break in the record
occurred last August which was slight.
ly below normal
Some time before the present pheno-
menon. the nine months period be.
ginning in October, 1918, and ending
in July. 1919. the average monthly
temperature was 2O.2l.
The monthly average temperature
was 202l degrees above normal ano
this was a record until sunspots, sea
] boNA'ilA hl'llisAN ais VI OAAltl Ig DpAlAfN
cal causes, sent the mercury still
| higher. The highest average tempera'
ture ever recorded in this country
for the month of March. weather Off
clals say, was 4S.3 in March. 1921.
WarmeSt April in Half II Century
The average temperature for April
l92l-55 degrees-was the warmest
for that month in half a century
| May and June We're not unusual but
July broke all records for toe proceed
ing IL years.
4 curious freak Of the weather In
America for the week ending Sept
-. was that while every section OF
Halifax and from Phoenix, AriZon,
10 Miami. Fla. was suffering from
abnormally high temperatures, larg,
areas In Wyoming, Montana. Oregon
and Nevada. We're having free2inl
nights.
! Weather bureau officials declined
to discuss the possible connection be
tween the present high temperature
and disasters OF nature in many part'
of the world. II was recalled, how
over that when the volcanic eruption
of Krakatoa. small island In th'
Malay Archipelago in the Sund.
Strait between Sumatm and Java, oc
CURED in the summer Of 1883, tn,
most violent of its kind In moderi
time. two thirds OF the island wa
blown away. 10000 persons peHshe,
and tidal wave propelled itself al
far as the English channel on thi
occasion, dust from the volcani
ashes was carried around the worl
and Tor days, IN many parts, COO
temperatures prevailed owing to tn
obstruction OF the suns rays. som
of the dust from Knkatoa was sus
pended In layers In the upper atmos
phcrc for years.
Causes Problcmatical
Now. whether the worldwide hca
wave is due to some terrible paroXysr
. VI nature such AZ volcanic action Il
some remote region OF the earth @
seismic uphoovals In the depths q
some unknown sea. OF whether It
due To sun spots ur some other caus,
: Is entirely problcmatical II Is onl
as recently as last December IL, tina
scientists were cudgcllhe their brain
4 to solve the mystery Of an earth
quake estimated To have boon "2.S0
miles from Washington" A few day
later news came of an earthquake /
, faroff Kauh Su province. China, fou
times that distance, In which zoo
. persons persisted The cNplanatlo
given was that there probably ha
occurred Two distinct shocks eac
, widely separated. and from that da
, to this seismologists speak or III
: lost earthquake. The present ten
! pcaturcs may toe due 10 H.
Resume Recent Disasters
, II is fact. however. that wha
ever the cause. this terrestrial hall ha
been subjected OF late to rough usar
notwithstanding that the war is owe
| 4 resume of some recent disasters an
natural phenomena shows the 70
lowing.
Two million Koreans starving I
Manchuria. owing to drought RUNE
crops.
| Three hundred buildings wrccke
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