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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16406, 28 December 1918, Page 7

A recent article ■ in the. "Monthly Weather Review" revives the old question whether a particular typo or weather is or i» not commonly observed to prevail just before an earthquake. Th& expression "earthquake weather is frequently heard in California and in some other regions subject to earthquakes. It is applied to a heavy,, oppressive feeling in the air; heat, calm, little cloud-and moWori less haze. Thia is much the same: kind'Of i?6ftther as prevails hafore a' rMminer,' thunderstorm, and perhaps the' popular mind has extended the >associaubn;from one phenomenon to ' t}i©, r other., Humphreys, .in. charge orJ_tlv>;'6ei»mological work of" the-' United State? Weather Bureau, I has' made 'the plausible ..suKgeSjtiofiwthat the V'earthquak* weatheif' notion' of.psyckologicaT:origin; ; th'e_ generoFstate.of irri-" tation a'n§ sensitiveness > .produced by the.weather us to' ehait>er'Observation, of , earthquake distili'bttfices", accentuates; the impression they,'itiafce-;pn ;oiir-6B!naes; thus we retain , more vivid memories of the .'quakes ' more/ soothing days. Income ;caimtries -particular forms of clouds earthquakes, 'arid tliemtigfo :widespread belief that •mist, fog, and ;rain. ;r?lMfc,;i«fea that barometric fluctuationswith earthquakes reetst, lapoh' * much nroreeubstantial foundation: • " . ■