Show l II I JAM IN AIR CURRENTS Y Iv y S Suns Sun's i s Year Eleven Strike May May Have Bearing on on Queer W Weather cather t i W WA WASHINGTON May 10 By Dy U. U tit P.- A A. str n traffic Jam of ot air Ir airth ent th in the northern hemisphere hemli heral- heral i sphere ere threatens threaten an n immediate rel re- re l l. l u erco of ot the unseasonable noble cold cod ave weather bureau officials stated today Polar air air currents ar t to o the which has haa one Just spread a May winter over Eastern an and Midwestern Midwest Midwest- ern states statu blocked from traveling r t 0 I II I their usual paths across across northern rt Canada are sweeping far tar to the south over 11 the United States skirtIng skirtIng skirting skirt- skirt Ing the outside edges of ot tho the jam Tho The Jam Is caused by a n virtual stagnation of ot the areas of ot high and low pre pressure sure which cause the tho changes In weather Where they tbS usually chase each other with whirlwind rapidity over the Northern North North- ern states statu on their way from Alaska to Greenland now tb they y are barely moving This situation prevails over tho the whole of ot the northern hemisphere Out in the p Pacific ocean one storm has haa been chasing Its Ua toll tail for tor weeks without moving Its Us center because U it t Is blockaded A stagnant ar area a of ot high pressure over Europe is ia shunting all the tho storms that traverse trav trav- traverse I erse the States up the tho Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic ocean to the Arctic I Whether hether the Jam 33 can be bo blamed on the strike of ot the the- sun lIun which has laid off ott for tor tho rest It takes ever every eleven years depriving the earth of ot about 4 per cent of ot Its t heat weather bureau officials of of- ot- ot i refused to say |