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Show Weather. We became greatly interested In the weather during the last hot spell, and after much research, consisting of interviewing in-terviewing the weather authorities and reading their statements explaining heat, we have assembled these helpful facts: The hot wave was caught by a high barometric pressure at a distance. The high barometric pressure was at a distance because it was not here, and it was caused by the absence of a low barometric pressure. It was not a hot wave. Heat does not travel in waves; neither does cold. As a matter mat-ter of fact, we have neither heat nor cold in the general acceptance of these terms. When we have a high barometric barom-etric pressure maintained for a prolonged pro-longed period, the Influx of attenuated air from the contiguous territory aids the rays of the sun in increasing the apparent calorification of the atmosphere. atmo-sphere. This peculiarity, however, is only noticeable to a height of four miles from the earth. At thirty miles up we find no heat whatever. We derive de-rive our sensations of heat and cold from the diffusion of molecules, in the radial territory. This should ie clear to any thinking person. One might ask what keeps the air where it is kept until the high barometric baro-metric pressure is dissipated. To this the answer is that it is not kept. It is not there to be kept. Air is not anywhere. Air is everywhere. Air is neither hot nor cold. It is just air. A high barometric pressure ' obtains, say, in the south temperate zone in December. Therefore we say it is summer there and winter here. In fact, the terms summer and Winter mean nothing. When the barometric pressure is lowered, the temperature is also. Thus, at a certain time of the year it is lowered to the point where snow fails. This is what, for lack of a positive term, we call winter. And, vice versa, we get summer. There is no such thing as weather. What we designate as weather is the recurrent manifestation of differing barometric pressures in or away from some place. This produces changes iu our atmospheric envelope, and we say we are warm or cold, as the case may be, when we are neither. There is no such thing as weather, nor is there rain, snow, cold or heat. These are merely sequelae of the stages of barometric ba-rometric pressure. In this article we have crystallized, so far as we are able, the excellent dicta of the acknowledged weather experts, ex-perts, men who treat our daily weather weath-er with the' utmost nonchalance. Henceforth none of us should worry over the weather, which is no such thing, anyhow, nor over heat or cold, which are simply symptomatic effects and not prime causes of our, sensations. sensa-tions. Let us get this all unkinked in our minds and from now on greet 6ud friends with: "It's a nice barometric baromet-ric pressure we are having this morning," morn-ing," or "Looks like we might get a little heavier barometric pressure," or "How does your father stand the pressure pres-sure this summer?" |