Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-24
TO BE-
YEARS WITHOUT
ANY SUNNI
This IS Opinion of III. J. Brown,
Washington's Famoux lyeath-
err Prognosticator
1916 WAS A YEAR
WITHOUT SUMMER
Disastrous Crop Failures Pre-
dicted; Weather Chief Takes
Exception Browns
Prophecies

BOSTON, Sept. 24.-Better keen
your fur coats and heavy "undieq,'
and galoshos handy during the sum-
mers of 1926 and 1927.
For Herbert Janvrin Browne. ~
washington, probably the world.
leading authority on long distance
weather forecasting, says metero,o
glcal conditions now are exactly
similar to those just prior to 1915
Inc Year Without a Summer
During that summer, our great.
great-grandparents had TO caleh~a+a
the fortieth anniversary of the 70.
public in below freezing weather
Two weeks before a snowstorr
swept down from Canada and
bianketed the eastern part Of tho
country as far south as Maryland.
Disastrous crop failures resulted
and Browne predicts the same
hard times" for the farmers dur-
ing the next two years.
Browne, known as a RADICAL
among the meteroIogists, expects to
present his views to the Babson
conference on meteoroIogy which
opens its session here Sept. 23.
Charles F. Marvin, head of the
United States Weather Bureau. who
says that any weather predictions
Tor more than few days in advance
are pure guess work heads the con-
servatives. Long range weather
forecasting he says is a scientific
impossibility.
Browne is not alone in his views
and the two opinions are certain
to bring clash at the conference
DR.. R. E. De Lury, assistant
director Of the Dominion Observa-
tory at Ottawa, Canada backs
Brownies opinion and while Prof II
H.. Clayton of the Smithsonian As
trO-Physican Observatory, does not
agree with Browne on several points.
Marvin will be represented at
the conference by one of his lead
ing meterologists, DIR. William 7.
Humphreys, and will be supported
m his stand by Prof. Charles r.
Brooks of Clark University.
Brownies theory is that weather
conditions are mainly the result Of
ocean temperatures; that ocean
temperatures depend upon the.
amount Of heat generated by the
sun; and therefore, by study of the
variations in the SUMS radiation. IL
Is possible to predict accurately
what the weather will be in any
given locality years in advance.
And SO he says:
Beware Of 1926 and 1927.
Conditions in 1927 will be a
"summerless year'-a replica II
1915. The Year Without a Sum
mer,' when crop failures brought
disaster to the land.
"The oceans are great reservoirs
of the SUMS heat. They do not,
however, react to Il Immediately. II
takes from one to five years.
'Now in the early part of 1899
the SUMS heat fell below normal.
By September of that year it had
dropped to its lowest point since
1905.
cat the present time we are feel
ing the effects of that drop, and
during the next two years we viii
feel It still more.
"The change started last year.
The great dominating currents OR
the antartic were chilled and their
volume increased. They then start
ed pushing the warm currents of the
northern hemisphere farther month
ward and blocking off their return.
Check Up On This
Here's what the effect will be
the remainder of this year
"An early fall, accompanied by
above normal over a great
portion of the United States and
Canada, particularly IN the Allan
tic coast sections, the Great Lakes
regions and the lower st. Lawrence
valley.
"Above normal rainfall on the
Pacific coast. particularly in south
ern California, which should have
a precipitation Of 30 inches.
Grains in Nevada, Arizona and
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