| Show S SEASONS CHANGE avie first snow of the season haa has 1 fallen allen sas a neus newspaper paper 1 A dispatch from a city far up in canada king winter is northland bland getting rea ready d to creep coming to life in the nort south old timers soon will be saing the seasons are changing we dont ba hac bac c the cold weather we had when hen I 1 was a boy not so 50 say the We weather allier bureau expert in washington their records show no radical changes cli anges in the seasons weather runs in cycles it may be exceptionally hot or cool or rainy for several ears cars but natlae soon steps in and evens things up over long periods the average is about the same for instance accurate weather records have been kept since 1780 at new 11 haven averi conn these records show shou that a mild winter is counterbalanced later by a cool summer or a severe winter striking an average over 10 icar ear periods the records show that the yearly temperature lias has ho holdred cred around 50 degrees since 1780 the ile warmest july was in 1780 but the thermometer then registered almost exactly the same as in july 1876 the coldest january in the years recorded occurred as late as ws 1857 the coldest february occurred scars cars after the warmest one back in ili 1770 dr hugh williamson wrote that the winters of the preceding half century had been much milder than in the old days that is much the same st story ory that the old timers tell now alt it probably has beco so since the das of the cae man people imagining that seasons are changing they get their idea from the fact that severe weather occurs only in intermittent 11 cycles and severe weather slicks sticks in tt the e memory while hile exceptionally mild weather that pulls the loni a 19 normal is forgotten |
