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Show OCEAN CURRENTS AND WEATHER H With referenco to a discussion re- JM gardlng the possible permanent change m In the cUmatc of Alaska due to a IH shifting of the Japanese current, tno BH monthly review of tho weather bu- reau savs that there havo been many H warmer Decembers than last Decern- her during the past twenty-eight yean when records havo been kept, but only m four warmer Januarys and no arni- IH or February, although February, 1902, H was but about 1 degree colder. -So sjsjj much for tho facts, now as to the why. fFM "It Is a fact." the report adds, tnat jlsj ' the atmospheric pressure for the past H winter averaged below normal over fllM the Alaska area, it being decldedly so IBJJ In the month of February, when the fM excess of temperature was most felM marked. It Is also true that in Jan- M uary and February the pressure was H above normal off tho California and H Oreron coasts and ovor western Can- H ada" This leads to the assumption mm that tho circulation of tho winds around the high-pressure area in mid- UVJ die latitudes of tho Pacific ocean and 1MB their northward deflection into thc BB low pressure area over Alaska was the real cause of tho warm weather in tho latter region In January and BH Februarv, 1912. Tho extension of the n .Tananeso current to thc northward oi Its normal courBo, so far as tms nap- em pened at all, probably only on the gW surface, was doubtless Incidental to iH this pressure distribution and the re- suiting winds. As soon as the usual pressure of distribution was TO-estab- H llshed. normal temperature conditions m again set In over Alaska. ' H This appears to bo again a case oi H mistaking the result for the cause.. A H persistent and unusual trend north- IH ward of the winds would blow th surface water somewhat northward ol M Its usual position. The pressure dls- tr?bu?lon as observed would accounl H for tho water and temperature abnor. H raalitles, but why the pressure distrJ. H butlon? This great riddle of the ele- -H moots remains unsolved.-Nebrnslti M State Journal. Ifll |