Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1918 — Pulses of the Weather. [ARTICLE]

Pulses of the Weather.

There appear to exist in the earth’s atmosphere “centers of action,” which have wide control over climatic conditions and make it possible' to foretell the character of the weather long In advance. One of the most important of all these centers is that about Iceland. According as the atmospheric pressure there is high or low, mild or severe' winters result tn central Europe, and there are those who contend that , this influence is also felt on the North American The North cape is another similar center, and Retween these foci a kind of compensation of action exists, sbmetimes at intervals of six months. A warm winter at the North cape corresponds to a cold winter in Iceland, and is followed by cpld winds in central Europe and over the plains of Hungary. The cause z of the phenomena, it is thought, is to be found in the variations of the North Polar ice Cap, which constitutes the great reservoir of cold for the northern hemisphere.