Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 85 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 85My title suggests a radical change of view regarding weather and weather forecasting. Let us contrast. For a moment. Weather and climate. All men realize that it is the sun which furnishes the heat which warms the earth, and that the regular motions of rotation of the earth upon its axis, and of its revolution in its orbit around the sun produce those periodic variations of the solar heating which govern climates. Differences in latitude and of proximity to oceans and to other great terrestrial features introduce alterations from place to place in these periodic changes of solar heating, thereby are pro duced climatic differences. As regards weather, which consists in departures from regularity in climate, I suppose that practically all meteorologists have been holding hitherto that it depends principally on the complexities of the earth. According to that view, weather represents, as it were. The changing eddies and Whirlpools in the Niagara of climate, due to the jutting rocks of local circumstances. And, owing to enormous complexities, is essentially unpredictable for any considerable time in advance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.