Milford chronicle., 1925-10-09
U.S.. WEATHER HEAD SAYS
CLIMATE in DELAWARE IS
BEST IN ENTIRE COUNTRY
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via Peninsula has a better climate
than any part of the East. New
York State cities have less sunshine
than Milford, and the climatic con-
ditions are way ahead of the Empire
State. This is due to the paths OF
the storms. Delaware is just south
of one storm path and just north of
another path. AS a result the winds
here are light and refreshing, with
the absence of tOrnadoes and vio-
lent windstorms so frequent in other
sections.
MIR. Spencer was asked about the
long drOughts of this summer. He
said there had been no measurable
nrecipitation for ten days and that
only seventy-fve tenths of an lnch
of rain had fallen during the month,
which makes it the dryest Septem-
her on record. The deficiency in
rainfall for September is about three
inches and for the year, to date
about twelve inches, it was report
ed.
Mr.. Spencer pointed out that New
York and New England states had
fair amount of rainfall this month
hit that the Southern States re
mained arid, with Virginia and the
Carolinas even worse off than Della
ware. In explaining the situation ne
said:
.'AIost of our Northeastern storms
originate in the neighbOrhoOd OF
British Columbia and make a Wlue
sweep down toward Texas and tneh
northeasterly toward the Atlantlc
Coast. While they come from the
Northwest. we call them Northeas-
tern storms because the wind, as
they approach, blows from the north
east toward the storm center.
"Some of these storms go as lar
sOuth as Texas and they come here
by the way Of the Gulf States ana
Tennessee. These are the ones Whlch
give the Southern States their soak
ing rains. Another route for them IS
further north and up the ONO val
ley. Still another route lies Dy way
of the Great Lakes.
For many months not one Oh
these storms has taken the extreme
southern tract and that is why the
South and Southwest are suHerlns
from drought. There have Deen d
few rains along the more northern
routes, and these have given New
York and New England moderate
amount of relief
He advised against long range
weather predictions, and SAID thaI 90
hours was the limit to which a lore-
cast should hold good. He Illus
trated the idea by saying:
"I wish to say that If l were
Milford business man, and II my
business depended somewhat on 1u-
tnre weather, 1 would pay not tne'
slightest attention to the long
range weather forecasts that are be-
ing featured in some newspapers
and magazines. No one knows, LOT
instance. what the weather is going
to he next summer, or the next, or
the next. Any summer may be aD-
normally cool; the chances are
about one in four that 1t Will De. w.
it may be abnormally warm; the
chances are about one in four that
it will be. But the chances are ABOUT
four to one that any one of these
summers will be somewhere near
the normal and it seems to be just
good sense for a business man to
expect that sort of summer ana
not something which rarely occurs.
"AIy own personal opinion of these
forecasts is that they are not worth
the paper upon which they are writ
ten. They are actually harmful, be-
cause they appear to predict some
thing about which we know nothing
and they disturb business unneces-
sarily. 1t is the forecast that is ike
ly to injure business, and not the
weather we will have next summer
and the next.
incidentally, I will express the
belief that there has never been
year without a summer in the
United States as a whole. The his
toric data regarding these things are
meager and unreliable, and confined
chiefly to the extreme Northeast
sections of the United States, where
the summer of 1916 was unusual to
saw the least. But often the north
east section of the United States has
remarkable weather, which is never
experienced in the Middle West and
South. Hot waves, cold waves, Sc
we're storms, ETC., are almost lnVar-
iably local" and extend over rel
ativelV small area.