Show 1 WAr k AtS eo f ij 1 IT ITi i r it c I I II I I II I I I t 5 II I I fur 1 It O I rt r A t 1 Drawing by R Ray y Walters Walter Walter j f I III 10 II you Oil eH ever r see such sueh fill h pe- pe ID D pe-j pe w weather ather And Anti for tur this ut of the year TIIU we exclaim when th the weather eather noun linin plays us UJ tricks ni m I out tn to ua us is the only brand ut of weather wather he lie has lias Im on If It he sI nv- nv Ta us with liw loo touch li ruin rain we tall cull It abnormal If It he lie shuts off lilT the tilt ruin and nud tile the earlI h begins to tf tr dry up Jp we call tha that t abnormal If It he lie shoes gives us too tuo much heist licu Ilea t or ur lou luu touch much cold the these e lire are abnormal hat he de demand mand of ot us liS do du we lye call normal enle A I the ilie an average JUan Is n useful tul for tor sta sla nl purposes nothing purposes es more nc- nc ac g tu to harles of t the Culled ell States talt's bureau Jt It Is rurel rarely with U as us 11 II reality Iu- Iu Indeed Iti deed lit lie says 1118 periods p lu which the ure humidity cloudiness cloud cloud- cloud SS iness etc conforms very ery closely to tile the average of or a u lon long record for tor the i corre lime Iliac of ut year are to so unusual un- un usual usual that when th they y occur they de de- de serve fenc a place In III the n news ws of ot the thc day Latel Lately we have t been e having ha unusual weather weather-as us usual Mr lr oh- oh tenes ob-tenes ten es to In n the New ew York Times The have h been en conducting then then- them selves with normal abnormality he und end the th customary com coral comments beats ments and explanations have o been on the subject ct Hut But tut we weDIn cony DIn tuk take this weather muni mana maus s word forIt for It H this reveals Ie nothing out ot of tho ordinary The pu paradox adox that exceptional weather weather er u In our OUI latitudes lj to the th rule rul rather than thon the Ule exception Is easily explained lie Ill says Is the most pronounced characteristic of ot the at- at at ot atmospheric conditions condition In the misnamed h zone and the fluctuations that occur I have 0 a wide range ranee on side tide of ot the called ao climatic which art are tho the a averages computed from over o a along long perish period of or tine time I Ur lIr Talman admits however that In addition to normal weather which Js uncommon and moderately abnor abnor- abnormal abnormal mal weather which prevails mob inert ot of the time tillie there Is a third type ot of weather euther which departs so fur far from the u duct even after the tho lapse lipse ot of years cars Its vagaries are remembered as something extraordinary England of ot the year I 1260 GO In Eng Ene Eng Eng- land Jand Matthew of or Westminster says In ln the summer stammer of ot this year car great creat and enormous prodigies were seen In 10 theair the air so that some omo said suld that the laJ last las 1 judgment sv close at hand There Then way was now an nn Intolerable famine and andruck andS S ruck excessive i and uninterrupted thunderstorms t that lIa t scarcely any uny one dared io to so go 0 out of ot his house se und and mUll marry people were killed and tine lIht light light- lightning ning destroyed houses s and of corn lorn and wood woods und and inflicted d unheard of dangers on the country Also Alo there were ere such hull storms that the tine stone stone- were not only like peas but hut of ot the thickness of ot three fingers finers and In some someplace places as thick as fifteen fingers The fhe Fourteenth century appears to have hn been heen a n period of or extreme climatic conditions In Europe During the cold winters of ot that century according to toO O 0 Petterson the Rhine Danube Io 10 mid find other great greut rivers rl were frozen for weeks and months together and In live five fifty of the succeeding summers serious floods occurred In 1342 and 1379 the was so 50 high at Cologne that boats passed over the city walls In some summers summers however IlOwe severe se droughts prevailed pre The hot summer ot of 1 1357 was tallied talked of for tor centuries after atter One line of ot the most memorable exam exam- examples examples ples pl's of queer weather In all history was the lie dry to fog that prevailed pre In both l Europe and America during the i of ot 1783 A well known de- de de description of ot It Is 18 that given by Gilbert White In Ills hIs Natural History of ot borne Sel borne lie Ice writes The summer of ot 1783 was an amazIng amazing amazing ing and portentous one and ond full of horrible phenomena for besides the line th alarming meteors and tremendous thunderstorms that affrighted and dis- dis distressed dis distressed the line different counties of ot thIs the peculiar haze or smoky tog foe that prevailed pre for tor many weeks In Inthis tints Island and In ever every part of Eu- Eu Europe Europe Eu Europe rope and even beyond Its limits was wasa wasa wasa a most extraordinary appearance un- un unlIke un unlike like anything known within thin the mem mem- memory memory memory ory of ot man The sun at noon looked as os blank as ns a n clouded moon and shed a 8 rust-colored rust fer ter- ferruginous light Tight on the tir ground and floors of ot rooms but was particularly lurid find and colored blood at rIsing and setting One of or Franklins Franklin's title selen title disquisitions relates to this e event ent nt lIe says During several of ot the tha summer months of the year ear 1783 1733 when the effects e of tine the suns sun's rays ray to heat th the earth eurth In these northern regions should have been en the greate greatest t there exIsted u a con constant fog tog over o nil all Europe and a great part of ot North orth America Tails Thill fog toe was of ot M It permanent nature It was dry and the rays of ot tho lino sun teemed to have little effect Teet toward dissipating It as they easily do a 11 moist fog fos to arising from water Tile They were Indeed rendered no tiO faint In pass pass- passing passing s In ing through It that when collected In Inbe Inthe Inthe the be focus of ot a burning glass gauss the they would scarcely kindle brown bro paper per Some SOUle specimens of ot weather cuther are merely on account of or their extreme character while In other cases the remarkable t feature lIure Is tine he place 01 or tunic of ot occurrence i ably the lie majority of ot utmos I events that arc popularly classified a as freak weather r are lire tho- tho those thoc c that hut occur out of ot s season or In lu a U r region llIn where hert r they hl rural rarely experienced For ex ex- ex nUl h f the Die memorable cold wave wn e that prevailed In tho tine United States In IQ Feb reb- I February eb 1809 1800 was of ot unprecedented se- se severity se severity verity but the tact fact about It that seemed most extraordinary was that It spread so fur far south as ns to give 1 va the Gulf coast a n taste of oC zero weather The terrific hot waves Wa that occur In our Middle West In summer often ac- ac accompanied ac accompanied companied by Intense drought are nr economic events of ot mu much b Importance but they ar are appropriate to a conti conti- continental continental climate and are nr too common to attract more than transient notice Inversions of ot the seasons In the shape of ot warm spells In winter and told cold spells In summer always alwa's arouse general Interest and bring to the th tore fore for those two favorite standbys In the ex- ex explanation explanation ex explanation of oC weal weather her Irregularities Irregularities- Irre sunspots and tho the Gulf stream stream just justas as In a former age similar untimely occurrences Inspired pious tracts and sermons concerning manifestations ot of the Divine will The most familiar example I Is the abnormal weather of tile tho tho called so-called year ear a summer For generations magazine and zes- zes s paper wa-paper paper writers have repeated a few tew hackneyed statements about this ta- ta famous fa famous year and public Interest has lately been revived revl In the subject ow ow- owing ing to the much advertised opinion of ofa ofa a 11 certain unofficial prophet that 1027 Is to give us a repetition of Its win wIn- wIntry wintry try conditions The Th facts about the year nil are however still somewhat ob- ob obscure obscure ob obscure Regular weather records were wert kept at that period at lit not more mor titan than ten places In the entire country and aud nobody has lias trance strange to soy say ever er un undertaken un- un undertaken undertaken H a thorough b search of ot other contemporary sources of ot Information such as newspapers and diaries The Th I following description of ot tine the cold sum sum- summer summer summer mer as experienced by the writer Chauncey Jeromo Jerome of ot making clock re- re renown re- re renown re renown at Plymouth Conn Is typical ot of those commonly quoted and like most of or the others other It was written many years yeara ears after the tir event ent The next summer was vas the cold one oue ot of 1310 which none Done of tine the old oid people will will ever forget torget and which many of the young have beard a n gT great Teat ut deal about There was as Ice let an and snow In every ery month of ot the year ear I well re- re remember re remember member tine the of June while whilo on my ml way to work about a mile from home dres dressed d throughout with thick wool woolen eo clothes and an overcoat on my hands s got ot so col cold that I was obliged d to lay loy down my toola tools ant and put on ou a pair of mittens which I had In my pocket It snowed about an on hour that day On the of ot June JUlie my lay wife brought In some dollies clothes that had been spread ou on the ground the night before which were frozen stiff as us In winter On the of Jul July I saw several men quoits In la the middle of ot the day with thick overcoats on and und t tu the u stilt 10 shining bright at the time Not Not ut halt enough corn ripened that I year to ru furnish seed beed for tor the next Dext |