WINTERS GOING "SISSY"

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 26, 19 June 1939, Page 7

WINTERS GOING "SISSY"

COMPLAINTS FROM U.S.A. RESULTS OF WARM PHASE The contention of old timers that winters are going sissy was upheld by J. B. Kincer, Chief of the United States Weather Bureau's Division of Climate and Crop Weather. In a paper presenteel before the American Meteorological he / asserted ''In the light of present knoAvledge Ave must concludc that -grandfather isn't so far wrong Avheu he says winters noAV are not so cold .and the snows so deep as they used to be.*' A- climatic cycle, Mr Kincer explained, has brought a world-Avide change to'warmer temperatures since the turn of the century, but it isn't permanent proposition. RECORDS OF A CENTURY. An examination of the longer Avca. ther records of the country, going back 100 years or more," he said, '"indie,ates that this does not represent a permanent change in climate, but rather a warm, dry phase of our normal climatc to be followed, doubt Jess, by a A\ T etter phase, when -there will be more rain in summer ; and loAver temperatures in Avinter. :? The Avinlers of 1917.18 and 1935-36 were cited as notable exceptions in the United States to the Avyirmer trend, which was accompanied by a -tendency to droughts that Avitnessed particularly the destruetiA-e, nationwide dry sy.>ells of 1930, 1934 and 1936. W. Feichelderfer, Chief of the lUnited States Weather asserted in a paper that "flood control and soil erosion, as Avell as air transport and industry, have problems which for solution Avait upon i-he in weather.''