The Cordova daily times., 1922-10-31
WILL REPORT WORLDS GALES
 BY WIRELESS

ternationally owned and operated wireless station and weather obser- vation station on the shores of Baf- fin Bay, to supply data for the worlds weather services, has been proposed, and steps are being taken to insure it's installation.
 Baffin Bay is pretty far north, as glance at map of the top of our continent will show, cold winds blow cheerlessly much of the time, ice and snow hold sway over the land and sea for a good portion of the year, and the life of those stationed there, cut off from the world except by radio, would not be of the easiest but the value of their services to the world would be inestimable, it is aid.
 Officials of the United States Weather Bureau are enthusiastic over the proposal and will urge the participation of the Government in the cooperative scheme. They point out the valuable work of the Inter- national Weather Observation Station on the lonely little island of Jan Mayan, off the southeast coast of Greenland, where reports are sent to all the European government me D1o oC the Canadian and United States weather bureaus.
 MT. V. Bjerkus Ekerold, a Nor wegian scientist and meteorolOgist 1 through whose efforts the Man May en station was erected. has been in this country and Canada for some time in the interest of the proposed Baffin Bay Station.
 | The great value, to this country of such a station is shown by ob- servers in the fact that they are often handicapped by the sudden ar rival of unforeseen weather changes originating in northern Canada, where there are few stations. Thou sands of miles of the continent, up to the Arctic Seas, hold no obser- vation posts nor means of messaging observations if any were made. The northernmost weather station in Canada is almost forty degrees from the northern edge of the continent, which puts it far south, close to the international boundary line.
 Consequently, officials said, much weather which originates in that vast stretch of land is unobserved until it is right down upon us. For this reason, 1t was added, cold waves often bear down from the 1 north in winter and our weather l bureau can give only scant warning. A recent example of this sudden ! and unforeseen change occurred in a series of showers that ended the long countrywide drouth that gripped the country during August, September and early October Con- tinued dryness was predicted for some days because conditions were sluggish and no changes were ob- served within the scope of the re- porting stations. Between two days, however, sudden showers swept down from the uncharted regions, 1 freshened up the entire Atlantic seaboard and the southern states, quenched destructive forest fires in Canada and brought an end to the drouth.
 If there were more stations far ther north, it was said, the change could have been foreseen far ahead of it's actual arrival, instead of about two days or less, and farmers and others to whom weather condi- tions are important could have had longer warning to prepare.
 It must be explained that through general interchanges, the weather observations of nations are made available to all other countries hay ing weather services, and to whom the data are important. Canadian stations therefore, make observations which are as important to this coun- try's weather services as though those stations were owned by the 1 United States. The Baffin Bay Station would be financed and oper- ated by the countries of the northern hemisphere to whom the data would be of value when reported by wire less.