The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-04-12

A YEAR WITHOUT ANY SUMNER

but series of killing frosts and freezes
Conditions in the polar ice cap determine largely the
location of the AIeutian Low Let be
lowed by spring with the ice fields clearing
the Atlantic at early date, the Aeutan Low will
we'll to the North and weaken until it practically
blended with the general field of rising arctic pressure
The Icelandic Low will follow suit, and then both At
lantc and Pacific Highs will be found moving north Of
their normal stations In the United States
rents will flow in and move far to north But the Sbe
ran High is weakened and its spread
the arctic and what cyconc Lows find their way
American continent too feeble to of the
Great Lakes and produce rain. great stagnant high
pressure will have taken possession of the country
and drought is The dry winds crossing the
Rockies sweep the heated plains and burn
the withering crops like prairie fire.
Droughts Have Hit Too
The country has suffered from numerous dry periods
each originating in certain of the here outlined
Let these all be combined a single assault and
the country would experience drought of unpdecedent
ed severity.
The drought of 1881 of wide extent. Abnormal
conditions had appeared during the previous years
December, 1880, of the Decembers
recorded and January 1881, the of the
Rockies. The Canadian was thin and soon
melted confirmation Of the theory that its early depart
ure is contributing of droughts in the States
During May the cool Lows, whose normal progress we'll
south of the Great Lakes gives the saving rans
drifting east above latitude As, and the inevitable def
cheney in rainfall which had begun in April continued
until late September.
The entire country east of the Mississippi was under
the SPELL and during July August Kansas and Arkan
affected In August, the Middle Atlantic states
received less than third their normal RAINFALL and
the Ohio Valley less than one-eghth By September
situation north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi
clear to the coast had become hopeless. Streams had
fallen to their lowest stages the crops
killed badly injured pay for the harvest
ing drought in July and August 1876, extended
from Maine to Virginia and west into Ohio with rain
fall of less than inch In 1886 the drought marked
in Northeast Dakota and Northwest Minnesota During
,u he drV inc ude five her sta
with extensive crop damage
The year 1920 the southwestern cattle ranges
stricken that the had to intervene aid in
getting the cattle almost bodily of the territory The
northwest grain belt Jared nearly badly
Both 1920 and 1921 large of intense
drought and the latter witnessed the failure of the
Russian grain crop and the destructive famine
the history of that country.
In the period from September 1920, july 1921 in
elusive light northern and early high arctic
temperatures paved the for droughts The country
filled with stagnant high and the arctic cyclones
too weak to dislodge them. The Lows nearly
"A above their number but this
mark of arctic whose sgnpost the Aleutian Low
far north of its place. Atlantic and Pacific
Highs moved to the nort and sluggish atmospheric
ditions generally.
The year 1922 just closed is the third in succession
of striking abnormalties and worldwide weather disturb
The Russian drought of 1921 and serious famine
in China included with every country in Europe suf-
fering severely during the five Since the
ord of 1922 will have strong bearing what may hap
pen during 1929 record should be care
Its first abnormay the record-breakng snowstorm
which swept up the South and Middle Atlantic states
January 27-29 Richmond had 10 inches of snow, Wash
ington %, Baltimore &c. Wilmington, Delaware 49, Phil
adephia 12 and points farther north essening
amounts. This storm finds repetition later in the
great gale which swept the whole length Atlantic
with increasing intensity and ravaged the
Western Europe, reported by many captains the
worst they had ever experienced.
The Cold Spells of 1922
Following the January, 1922, came a series Of
winter thunderstorms ranging east from Milwaukee to
New York and south to Washington glaze
storm followed in the Great Lake doing
damage in Michigan and S10,0O0,OOO in Wisconsin In
March the cold which swept the
belt from California Florida, with freezing tempera-
far south Corpus Christi. Texas time
on record cold in May damaged fruit from New
York to Virginia The Gulf States the crop
seriously damaged by excessive rains all through the
spring and early and cloudbursts
reported in many sections Droughts
by vagares of intense local rains frequently by
excessive rains during the fortnight preceding
ginning of the period
Drought sections of great intensity developed in
Northern Pennsylvania extending north into New York
Similar conditions reported in the Kentucky
fields The rainfall of the grain the
Mississippi has been far below normal and
dicate that further unfavorabe developments will
find the winter wheat plants resistance
Severe droughts prevailed in the Great Plains and Rocky
Mountain districts and Pacific SLOPE rainfall of
nine tenths of the country is distinctly below normal
Arctic Warmer This Year
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