White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-05-27
SUMMERLESS SUMMER
SAYS fORECASTER

/ That unusual weather conditions
occur at regular intervals of $50 years
/ has been discovered by Herbert JAW
rim Browne, long-range forecaster of
Washington, D. c.. He has shown
that the coming of these years is in
dictated for several years in advance
by records of changes in ocean tenn
/, peratures resulting from variations in
! solar radiation.
1 A part of his forecast is that the
summer Of 1927 will be marked by
. unreasonable frosts above the Mason
and Dixon line and that there will
be repetition of the so-called sum-
merless year of 1916. He has not pre-
dicted that the average temperature
will be much lower than usual but
that there will be intermittent frosts.
1 The temperature during the sum-
mer of 1916 did not average more
than three degrees lower than normal,
but there was snowstorm on June
II to 19, killing frost June %, a
freeze July 4, and another freeze
early in August. This was in the
eastern United States and similar
weather prevailed in Europe.
Over year ago Mr.. Browne made
predictions of adverse weather in 1927
and last September he indicated that
the winter would come early and con-
tribe late He forecast that there
would be heavy SHOWS in the Sierras
and the Rocky mountains. The heavy
SHOWS in the Cascade mountains and
the exceedingly heavy precipitation in
southern California recently bear out
his predictions.
Such unreasonable weather as oc-
cured in 1916 and which Mr.. Browne
has predicted fer this year is the re-
suit of variation in. radiation from
the sun. This is readily gagged by
ocean temperature. For the period
of 1905 to 1922 solar radiation was
high and as result the water in
tropical regions of the oceans became
warmer than ordinary.
The ocean streams flowing from
the tropics to the polar regions were
therefore warmer than usual and
this modified the climate in certain
countries that are subject to these in
tuences. The elimination of this
high raGiation came in 1922 and the
lag four years later or in the winter
Of 1924-1925 and gave northern
Europe the warmest winter it has
known for $50 years. For over a
pediod of five months the tempera-
ture ranged IL to is degrees above
normal. In the Pacific northwest
4 the warmest winter known for many
i years was experienced.
This warm weather in northern
Europe and on the Pacific coast in
the winter of 1924-1925 came four
I years after the high radiation ceased.
1t took that long for the warmer
ocean temperatures of the tropics to
reach these regions and the effect of
the high solar radiation Jagged four
AZ the same time that nothern
Europe experienced an exceedingly
warm winter, southern Europe had
the coldest winter it had known for
two centuries. These weather condi-
tions had been forecast by Mr..
Browne.
Since 1922 the solar radiation has
I been below normal and that indicated
to Mr.. Browne that colder weather
was coming, and, knowing that such
weather ruled in 1916 and 55.8 years
later In 1871 and that another 55.8
period would end in 1927, he predicted
that the year 1927 would be repeti-
ton of the 1916 weather conditions.
Ocean temperatures indicated that
Following the warm winter of 1924
1925 in northern Europe and in the
Pacific northwest there was a break
up OF the warm ocean area in the
arctic and north temperate regions
and by the fall of 1896 there began
to be felt the effects of the lower
solar radiation and instead of warmer
ocean currents going north there were
colder currents than usual in motion.
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