Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-11-03
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.

.,cW Nork.-The old >phcroid known
Hs the earth j. emerging from what
some human diasuo> iciauS might call
IA severe attack I'll meteorological
mump~ u has bGcl accompanied 10y
;tn Intermittent feyc-. manifested in Il
Worthwhile heat wave of unusual
length and intensity. In spite of crises
and re!"p~cs. cartht. makes tidal waves.
cluIdbuLsje typiiuous, WaterSpnui>.
liais,tul1u~. Hoods and hurricanes III
many widely separated parts. from
Kamch:itEa 10 Cape Horn and from
Guam ia Cuad1loupc, tile doctors are
confident the patient will recover.
Meanwhile The United States for tl'
! last year ha~ been suffering chiefly
| from an excess Fl high tenpcratur"
! ana a deficiency If moisture. = condi-
! fiou unprecedented IN tie fifty years
/ history If The weather bureau.
Suffers Heat Waves.
The persistent higher tempera ure>.
| for which number al speculative "a
| plantations, have been given, began Ia
! August. 1870. AMI Tor the succeeding
| twelve. months there was an avcra -
/ monthly rNc,->S above normal of RI
| degrees. March, 1871. aB unusually
| warm >priu. month. had aI excess ~ -
J er;t;.c Of los degrees. The fir; slight
break in thr record occurred last AT
gust. which WAS slightly below n"rinai.
: In the nine months period beginning
| in October. 1915. and ending in lul!
! 1gI" thr average monthly trmpcratur-
! WAS III degrees ahov" normal. AN!
! this WAS - record until sun Sp"i~, SEA
J bottom uyhcayals or other Hypothetical
J cauSrs sent thc mercury stili higher.
! The highest average temperature ever
recorded in This country FOR the month
of March. weather officials say, wa>
/ ass, IN March. 1921.
The a-"rae.. temperature tor April
! i.2I---i.5 ,lc.rr,-~--Ss o., the wariuc>i tor
/ that month in half century. May Hu'i
/ June were ne, unusual. hut July broke
! all records i"r Jllc preceding eleven
yrar>.
Weather bureau officials here de
. c.iuc.l 20 discuss the possible cnnucc-
| ton between the present high lempcr;i
! lures and disasters OF nature III many
/ parts of the world.
y -laurc back for recent disasters
! aud natural phenomena shows the
following:
Two million Koreans starving in
Maucliuriu owing ia drought-ruin.L
craps.
1hrec hundred bindings wrecked
| and many Killed by hailStorm ami wa
4 ter>pout 1T Baez, Cuba.
Three volcanoes. Nillarica, Llama
/ and l.auin. spout iiaInes more than a
I thousand feet from craterS.
/ drought Kills fish in river Seiu" ana
| France SuiIcr:, most severe drought ii
~ years.
Rhine aud Moselle rivers 10 great
dmma.e IL highest flood in 1876 years.
Cloudburst and hailstorm damage al
| Rome. lt;ly.
Mount NcS;vius shows activity ano
/ earthquake shock i felt from Lcghor,
"a Lake Lu-iuu.
Italian dr~troyers carry inhabitant
/ Ia safety rs volcano Stromboli re-
! suLl.S actiyity-
Iiaiu;:-,. "f several million draclrua'
done IN Grvcre 10y severe hailstoriiIs.
Earth Blocks Canal
Earth blocks COrinth canal.
Cyclone dcvastatos three towns in
Haiti.
Volcano Kilauea ia Hawaii spout'
immense fountains of lava.
Activity of the volcano Popocatapet
il Mexico Increasing.
Earthquake shakes Vera Cruz att,
four Other cities.
Lightning strikes oil wells. caIIsin:
millions OF dollars damage in Tampic,
and other districts.
MeNicans pray to "water goddess t.
end drought.
Volcano Colima in Jalisco is in crup
, lion.
Many lives lost in watcrSp0ut which
destroyed part of Tangier, Morocco.
Volcano AIasaya iii Nicaragua il
eruption.
Typhoon and Hoods in Philippines
aud especially ON island of LuZon. Il,
/ great damage
six new CRITTERS opened at Mount
' Izalco. Salvador.
+. Waterspout In Maia-Doura. provinc,
of Spain. damages crops and Villages
! Heat in the Alps causes glaciers I,
shrink and nine mountain climbers are
killed.
Seyenty-iive dead I'm Tomatoes which
sweep southern United States.
Flood mandates Pueblo, causing SO.
0OO.OOO property loss.
Forty-sevcn perish in San Antonio
(rexas) flood
One consolation of the freak wealth
er, however. IS the prospect OF al
''open winter"