New Britain herald., 1927-07-15
Second Section
COLD WINTER NOW
 BEING PREDICTED
Noted Long Distance ForecastG
 Does His Stuff

Washington. July IS. (UP)-Lone distance weather forecasting is past stage of experiment and is now an actuality, according to Herbert Jan- vrin Brown, noted weather fore caster. ..
 Not only can rain, snow and hail storms be forecast far in advance of their occurrence. but the location and approximate time of hurricanes, tornadoes and cyclones can be given. Brown says.
 On January 15 this year, Brown issued special forecast warnings against cold waves which swept across the country month later, and for the unusually heavy rains which devastated crops and caused flood conditions in sections of Pa II cific coast and southwestern states.
 His warning said:
 ''The weather in the United | States. Canada and northwestern I Mexico for February will continue 4 to present markedly adverse 'fea- " lures, which have so far been so re- markedly sustained that the winter of 192627 would be, over a large extent of North America, one of the severest ever recorded.
 Cold waves of serious order are forecasted for February IS to 20: Y February 21 to 25 and February 27 to March 8.
 Heavy rains will extend the whole length of the Pacific coast, \ but will not be marked in West I Mexico The American southwest will receive above normal precipi- | tation.' l Accurate almost to the day. Feb | ruary If saw the beginning of the first cold wave when Prince Albert, | Saskatchewan, Canada, recorded -3& l degrees below zero. By February IT l the storm was sweeping through the I northwest portions of the United l States, bringing exceptionally low | temperatures. . ! February IS saw 36 degrees, be. | low the freezing point, along the Rio Grande river in Texas, and the same day 2S degrees at Taylor, l | Texas. #
 Leaving a path of destruction in its wake, the storm crept across the I nation, causing damage variously estimated at between ,s10,0o0;O00 and s20,000,000.
 How this forecast for "heavy rains" along the Pacific coast have served to earn. him the title of world champion long distance weather -forecaster.'' is shown = by the subsequent precipitation. in st. tions included in his remarkable prediction. 4.
 On February 14, 1.sS inches of rain fell at Los Angeles; San Diego was deluged under a fall of 1.S4 inches; Sacramento got 1.16 inches; Red Bluff 40 inches; San Francis co, 1.02 inches, and Flagstaff, Ariz., in the midst of one of the most arid { sections of the United States, had ! the heaviest rainfall in years: 1.9S inches.
 July. beg inning of the West In- dian hurricane period. may bring some of the worst hurricanes on record, although they may not strike | land as did the Florida hurricane of last September. Brown predicts.
 Following year filled with weather ca1amities. many of which Brown prophesied months before they occurred. he says now the pe- culiar fluctuations of solar radia- ton, caused by tho sun reaching. the maximum sun spot period, will bring on some of the worst hurri- l canes in history.
 According to- his calculations, Brown said the slight retraction northward. of the Azorean cold area. an oceanic body of cold water, will cause a similar movement north. ward of what is known as the "30- inch isobar of barometrical pres sure." ...-..-.-
 This shifting of one of the great ocean bodies of cold water and area of grea. barometric pressure over the West Indies will have the effect of increasing rainfall.
 There should be a notable less enng of the drought conditions so marke in Porto Rico the past year. as we'll as an increase in the rain- fall of the Virgin Islands, in Haiti and Cuba" Brown said.
 There is also the threat of a rise in the number of tropical | storms influenced in part by the movement northward of the isobar and in part by the expected trend | in the sun spots toward their maxi i mum near the end of 1927"
 Brown forecasted several years turn to the conditions of 1916. his torically known as the year without 1 a summer" He now warns that l even semi-trorical countries will | not escape cold weather this sum- mer.
 Tt should be borne in mind" he , says. that there Is a probability of low temperatures in Cuba, as was notably the case in 1S16."
 The driving southward from | Greenland and Labrador of a con- tinIous stream of icebergs, one of the most notable ever recorded. con- tinuing through the entire summer and even late into November 1926. was resronslble. in part, for the un- usual change in temperatures and weather conditions in the West h. dies ard tke adjacent areas. indicat- ed already in the unusual sweep of the cold waves of Spring as far south as these points, he said.
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