EVERY MAN HIS OWN PROPHET

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 370, 11 June 1903, Page 3

EVERY MAN HIS OWN PROPHET

H«Ad o* Weather Bureau Tells H«m to Mto,U.q GuttaucH Ab<rat t&« Weather. Willis L. Moore, chief of the United States weather bureau, has published an almanac for the guidance of .the public, entitled "An Almanac and Weather Guide." Mr. Moore declares that anyone, by studying weather maps and "getting the hang" of them, can predict the weather for himself. He says: "If the student of the weather map will pay close attention to it day by day he will see that the 'highs' and the "lows" move across the country from the west to the east in almost regular succession. If the 'high' be a decided one it will oovef a territory 1,000 or 2,000 mil** in width, the weather within its influence will be cold and clear and the winds will have a general tendency spirally outward from the center. The 'low' is the opposite to the 'high' in almost all of its characteristics. It is usually attended by clouds, rain or snow and high winds. The winds within the influence of a 'low' blow spirally inward. The lower the barometer and the steeper the gradient the more rapid is the whirl of the j&orm eddy. Storms of like class take nearly the same course and produce nearly th'e same results; but they do not always move with the same rapidity. Wo exact rule in regard to them can be laid down. Empirical reasoning and intimate association with the charts day by day and year after year in tho main equip the most successful forecasters, but, as previously stated, any intelligent person can, -with a' little study, make profitable deductions. "Low pressure areas which approach from the southwest are rea« sonably sure to cause precipitation, while many from the northwest will pass with little or no rainfall. *'* • The approach of a storm center from the west is attended by warmer, easterly winds and unusual precipitation, and its passage is followed by colder, westerly winds and fair weather." Mr. Moore, in speaking of the hottest and coldest places'in the world selects the Colorado desert as the hottest place in the United State*, and mentions a recorded temperaturo there (at Mammoth tank) of 128 da* 3'rtes. The lowest temperature* Id the United States occur in the •»• tveme northern portions of Minn«* sota and North Dakota, where 50 anA 55 degrees below zero are common*

Science and Stormy Cape Hond 1 In history, as well as in romaneW, Cape Horn looms before the imagittfttion as the especial home of tempeuts, ship-whelming billows, crosjß-Bea*,'M*«Jg squalls, sleet, roaring gales and freeing blasts, and recent study of the mft» teorological conditions prevailing about the stormy cape does not diminish th« darkness of the picture. The hydro graphic bureau has undertaken to eot lect- statistics concerning the weathe* at Cape Horn. In this manner, it la hoped that some of the difficulties ©i the Cape Horn passage may be over* come through scientific advice $0 ftMfi captains.—Pilot Chart. ■ , , (■,■.;,.,..„,