Father Gheral was asked tne possible cause of this. unusually extended changelessness in the weather. He explained that during the whole of the ten days there has been 2 steady set to the winds from the fouth {0 the north, bearing slightly eastward. "In normal years there is {his same surface wind but there fs, a rule, a wind from the west at a higher level. 'This has' been tstablihea ey the we of pilot Bale toons, sent to a height of 8.000 metres. In this tremendous height from, the tanh, nearly Ave miles in all, there {Sno change in the direction of the wind, "In other words, there isa ver mile-thick wind blowing across these regions.
"This, of course, gives no relief and there is no possibility of tocal thunder storms or other disturbances of the atmosphere which would bring the temperature" down until this Steady stream is broken into by a cross current from either east or west.
Tremendous Corridor This wind, in a corridor several hundred miles wide, extends its width from far inland almost to the coast of Japan and stretches from the Indies to Siberia. AM along this huge area the land is suffering unusual heat. Depressions have passed, fon the edge of this corridor, one sing over Ichang and inland China, which accounts for the news of the Roodea conditions of the rivers in that area.
reply to a question concerning his" opinion of the many statements appearing, blaming sil phenomena of the weather on sun spots, Father Ghersi stated that. although sun spots do, undoubtedly, have an effect fon the weather, it is impossible that hey can be blamed for this purely local phenomenon when. only a few s inland weather conditions are completely the reverse. It is logical to think that sun spots may have a Seneral influence which is world wide, but, according to the venerable priest, they cannot possibly influence the weather in a few hundred mile wide area.
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