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Show CAUSE OF DROUTH UNKNOWN Meteorologists have theories and ideas as to the cause of our drouth but as far as actual, well-established facts are concerned they have little information to offer. It is not their lack of ability which makes them unable to tell why so little rain has fallen but a lack of information on weather conditions over the entire world. At present only 10 per cent of the earth's surface is observed for its weather conditions. For example, they know that Pacific winds which usually furnish rain for the western and middle-wiestern middle-wiestern states have left their usual course and crossed the continent conti-nent over northern Canada and then come down the New England Eng-land coast. They also know that winds coming from the Gulf of Mexico have this year been deflected so that they passed over Mexico and in so doing dropped their moisture on the mountains of that country. Why either of these tragic changes has occurred it is not known. Enough is known of periods of drouth, however, to disconnect dis-connect them from the sun spot cycle but is teought that years of extreme heat and cold run in cycles and that each condition is related to the other in some way. o |