The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-07-20

" affecting the prosperity Of the
United States.
Many scientists are cited as in
dorsing the theory, though their
Ltterances are not given. These
include DIR, Rutgers Sernander of
the University of Upsale, Sweden;
Helmut Cans of Switzerland, Rolf
Northagen of Norway and Guner
Eftman of Stockholm.
Sir Napier Shaw, the only Brit
ish expert quoted, admits cautious
ly that the measurements of solar
radiation the last few years indi-
cate radiation has been less and
less each year, but of course there
lis possibility that this is due to
progressive Improvement in the
method of measuring"
The past week southern England
entered upon the third day of a
heat wave with the temperature
in London standing at 81 degrees.
in the shade. At noon last
Wednesday the heat in the British
metropolis registered 121 degrees
on a glass exposed to the sun.
At the same time, beautiful and
sunny Italy was suffering from
unprecedented deluges of rain, and
great damage 2sks reported.
Yet despite weather conditions
as the cables report them, summer
lis the same in all parts of the
northern hemisphere, according to
the calendar from the June sol
stice to the September equinox.
Which is to say from June 21 to
Sept. 81.
In Ireland it is said the weather
is more mild than in New England
or in most parts of Britain, and
the contrast between winter and
summer is not so marked, though
summer seems to arrive earlier in
Ireland. In Boston the average
January temperature is %; in
Dublin 42 degrees. In Boston the
July average Is 70 and in Dublin
it is 60 degrees.
But New England is suffering
from drought and delayed spring
and an unprecedentedly cool sum-
mer this year. In Concord and
Lexington, Massachusetts,, on June
II, there was a killing frost, and
market gardens were hit severely.
Trees throughout the district have
their leaves edged with brown,
and are half dead. Many beauti-
full white hirches, the pride of
New England lawns, stand sere
and dead through drought.
There have been fewer thunder
storms this summer in the north,
due doubtless to the fact that the
general average of weather has
been sub-normal. and therefore
not of the lightning breeding type.
Despite what the scientists say,
that .'the seasons are not chang
ing" something is happening
the world, which is at
tracing the attention of people
everywhere. Here in Key West |
how little can even we who know |
snow, through having come into
contact with ii during winters in
the north, believe or comprehend
that % feet of snow choke the ]
Argentine district Of South AM
erica today
Or how can We be led to con- /
eeive that the vast valley reaches /
of the great White Mountain /
range in New Hampshire lie under /
their winter mantle Of white, un-
melted because Of the Geld sum /.
mer weather. while vaeationiSts /
play at snowhalls in the gulches
and ravines a mile or two above /
their tennis courts and golf links. /
Truly. nature Is PLAYING strange /
tricks on the humans this 1926.
The truck gardens Of the north
are almost ore month behind in
their products: new potatoes
which shonld have been on sale
shrse weeks aud more ago are
inst coming into the market: green
peas are IN tradition presumed to
Ne ''rine. shoush green. in tiuae
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