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Show "COLD' WINTER" BATTLE RAGES Utah farmers are being warned by the Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation against placing faith in forecasts of an extremely cold winter win-ter ahead, to be followed by unseasonable un-seasonable weather in 1926. The winter may be extremely cold and the summer unseasonable, but scientists scien-tists have no means of teling it at thihs early date. A week is the longest long-est dip possible into the weather future. fu-ture. Neither is there reason for believing believ-ing that the winters in this section -re no longer so cold, nor the summers sum-mers so hot as formerly, according to the Foundation, which quotes weather bureau figures on the point running backthree decades. The mean December-February tempera-was tempera-was 27.5 degrees. For the decade 1905-1914 It was 27.7; and fo 1915-1924, 27.0 degrees, a difference in the total range of .5 of a degree. "Snows that lay on .the ground for months on end, skating that began be-gan in November and lasted until March, snowdrifts that reached almost al-most any height one might mention, were the exceptional occurences in grandfathers day as they are today, One mild winter starts the rumor that overcoat manufacturers had better bet-ter 'go into the Palm Beach suit business, while an extremely cold winter is dubbed as good old fashioned fashion-ed winter. One explanation of this ih that memory is tricky and recalls the exceptional weather, rather than the average. Another is that modern mod-ern living has taken the edge off the extreme weather. A snowfall that our forefathers would have trodden under foot for days, is now shovelled away before we get up in the morning. morn-ing. Better healing, too, makes us feel the low tempeiaturs less, and ice refrigerating plants and electric funs make the extremes of heat more endurable." While the weather is constantly changing from one year to another, big climatic changes are too gradual to be observed in the lifetime of one or even a hundred generations. Scientists figure that the climate of this continent has not changed in some ten niilion years, not since the passing of the glacial period, and 1 probably will not for another ten million. |