Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-04

New York, Oct. (by the Assoc
ciated Press 1.-The old spheroid
known as the earth is emerging
from what some human diagnos-
ticians might call severe attack
of meteorological mumps, 1t has
been accompanied by an intermit-
tent fever, manifested in world
Wide heat wave of unusual length
and intensity. In spite of the
crises and relapses-e earthquakes,
tidal waves, cloudbursts typhoons'
waterspouts, hail storms, FLOODS
and hurricanes in many widely
separated pats from Kamchatka
to Cape Horn and from Guam to
Guadalupe--the doctors are con-
fident the patient will recover.
N Meanwhile, the United States for
the last year has been suffering
chiefly from an excess OF high
Temperature and n deficiency OF
moisture, a condition unprecedent-
ed in the fifty years history or
the weather bureau. From Janu-
AIRY / to September 20. last, the
Temperature of New York City,
which is typical of the country,
has shown an aggregate excess or
warmth of $50 degrees above nor
NAL while there has been short
age of Ell inches in rainfall. The
greatest amount of September pre-
cipitation was in 1882, when more
than IA 1-2 inches fell and the
least for that month occurred two
wears later with only fifteen hum
dreds of an inch.
High Temperatures.
The persistent high temperature
for which a number of speculative
Explanations have been given be-
gan in August, 1920, and for the
Succeeding twelve months there
was an average monthly excess
above normal OF "a degrees.
March, 1921, an unusually warm
spring month, had an excess aver
age of 1913 degrees. The first
slight break in the record &C.
Cured last August, which was
slightly below normal.
Some time before the present
'phenomenon the nine months
period beginning in october, 1918,
and ending in July, 1919, the av-
erage monthly temperature was
2.71 degrees above normal and
mis- WAS Il ItNOlu ohliopONN'
sea bottom upheavals or other n.y.
pothetical causes sent the mercury
still higher.
The average temperature re-
corded in this country for the
month of March, weather officials
say, was 1873 in March, 1921.
Freezing Nights.
The average temperature fof
April, 1921,-55 degrees-was the
.warmest for that month in half a
century. May and June were MOI
Unusual but July broke all record:
FOR the preceding eleven years. A
curious freak of the weather II
America for the week ending Sep
TENDER % was that, while every
section of the country from Bis
rnarck, N. D., to Halifax and from
Phoenix, Ariz., to Miami, Fla, was
suffering from abnormally higl
Temperatures, large areas in Wyo
ming, Montana, oregon and Neva
da, were having freezing nights.
Weather bureau officials herr
declined to discuss the possible
connection between the presen
high temperatures and disasters o
nature in many parts of the world
1t was recalled. however, tina
when the volcanic eruption of Kra
katoa, a small island in the Ma
lay archipelago in the Sunda strait
between Sumatra and Java, oc
Cured in the summer of 1888, TIL
most violent of its kind in mod
ern times. two-thirds Of the islant
was blown away, 10000 person
persisted and h tidal wave pro
PEELED itself as far as the Englisl
channel. On this occasion, dus
from the volcanic ashes was car
ried around the world and 70