Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1917 — Some Climate. [ARTICLE]

Some Climate.

--Thafr-oorner of Asia where the Turks have been fighting the Russians and the British comprises within a short distance the most extraordinary changes of temperature. The Russians stormed Erzerum with the thermometer recording 54 degrees of frost; barely 800 miles south the base of the British Mesopotamia force on the Persian gulf was situated, where 150 degrees in the shade has been registered on British warships. The Interior of the peninsula between- the Persian gulf and the Red sea is one of the few regions of the earth which remain terra: incognita, the terrific heat experienced there keeping the most intrepid explorer outside its 600,000 square miles. The sever!ty of the winter in the neighborhood of Erzerum results from its situation on an elevated plateau, which is at an average height of 6,000 feet above sea level, and thlsmakes -all the difference between its climate and that of the south of-Italy.- which is in the same latitude. The French Riviera Is 250 miles nearer the Arctic than Erzerum. and the Cornish “Riviera” at least 700 miles nearer the icy north, but Cornwall gets the full benefit of the Gulf stream, that marvelous hot water system of the North Atlantic which saves western Europe from the frigid temperatures of central Asia and Labrador, on the same parallels of latitude.