The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-10-30

During that summer, our great-s
great-grandparents had to celebrate
the fortieth anniversary of the re-
public in below freezing weather.
Two weeks before a snow-storm
swept down from Canada and blank
eted the eastern part of the country
as far south as Maryland.
Disastrous crop failures resulted
and Browne predicts the same "hard
times" for the farmers during the
next two years.
Browne, known as a radical"
among the meteorlogists, expects to
present his views to the Babson con-
ference on meteOrOlogy which opens
it's session in Boston.
Charles F. Marvin, head of the
United States weather bureau. who
SAYS that any weather predictions for
more than a few days in advance are
pure guess work, heads the conserva-
tives. Long range weather forecast
ing, he says, is a scientific impos-
sibility.
Browne is not alone in his views
and the two opinions are certain to
bring a clash at the conference.
DR.. R. E. De Lury, assistant direc-
/ tor of the Dominion Observatory at
Ottawa, Canada, backs Brownies opin-
ion and while Prof. H. H. Clayton of
the Smithsonian Astro-Physilcal OBJ
servatory, does not hold identical
views he does agree with Browne on
several points.
Marvin will be represented at the
conference by one of his leading met
eorologists, DR.. William J. Humph-
reys, and will be supported in his
stand by Prof. Charles F. Brooks OF
Clark university.
Depends on Suns Heat.
Brownies theory is that weather
conditions are mainly the result OF
ocean temperatures depending upor
the amount of heat generated by the
sun; and therefore, by study of the
variations in the SUMS radiation, it /!
possible to predict accurately wha
the weather will be in any given 10
cality years in advance.
And so he says:
Beware Of 1926 and 1927.
Conditions in 1927 will be particu
larly bad. 1t will be a summaries
year-a replica of 1916, The Yea
Without a Summer when crop fail
ures brought disaster to the land.
The oceans are great reservoirs o
the SUMS heat. They do not however
react to it Immediately. 1t take
from one to five years.
Now in the early part of 1922 tn
suns heat fell below normal. By Ser
TENDER of that year it had droppe
to its lowst point since 1905.
"At the present time we are fee
: ing the effects of that drop, and dul
ing the next two years we will feel
Y still more.
: "The change started last year. Tt
great dominating currents Of the al
= arctic were chilled and their volun
increased. They then started pushir
r. the warm currents of the northel
hemisphere farther northward al
blocking off their return.
Check Up on This.
> Here's what the effect will be Il
:. remainder of this year
. can early fall, accompanied by
rainfall above normal over a gre
portion of the United States al
L Canada, particularly in the Atlant
COdSb S6CblOlLS5 Vic 0ICdL LANES 1
gions and the lower st. Lawrence v;
4. ley.
~ "Above normal rainfall on the F
cific coast, particularly in southe
u California, which should have a pl
- cipitation of 80 inches.
Grains in Nevada, Arizona a
IN New Mexico, and cessation Of t
- drouth in Texas.
Generally favorable crop con
~ tons in the cotton belt.
~ Cessation with the Septeml
a, equinox of conditions which have
= prived the southern Appalachian Phi
mont of its customary precipitation
Nv Beware Of early frost in the &C
Or ~ belt.
10 Volcanic Explosion.
I'd cone great volcanic explosion
1926-like that Of Tomboro in
Dutch East Indies in 1815-wil
e. the upper air with clouds eff volca
dust and still further shut off
,ie suns heat.
" 'The growing season in 1927 '
az be late, there will be late frosts
the spring and killing frosts in