Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1914 — The Temperate Zone. [ARTICLE]

The Temperate Zone.

Prof. R. de C. Ward, a meteorologist, points out that while the term temperate zone very well describes the climate within the band of the earth’s surface which It includes in the southern hemisphere, It is often misleading when applied to the corresponding band In the northern hemisphere. The most extreme climatic conditions prevail within Its limits. In the southern hemisphere the climate is more equable because of the relatively vast extent of the ocean surfaces there. Even in the northern hemisphere fully half the area of the temperate zone Is covered by water, and it Is only over the continental portions that great extremes of heat and cold occur.