166 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal: 



The present remarkably cool weather for this season of the year was accurately 

 forecast by the United States Weather Bureau one week in advance. 



Springfield (Mo.) Republican: 



The Weather Bureau at Washington predicted last Sunday that a cool wave would 

 strike this vicinity about the middle of the week, didn't it? And it said that the cool 

 wave would be preceded by very hot weather. * * * The long-distance fore- 

 casting department of the Washington Weather Bureau scored one of the biggest 

 tallies in its history Thursday morning, when the cold wave came along. 



Boston (Mass.) Transcript: 



The official forecaster's reputation as a successful long-range forecaster is better 

 than ever in this vicinity. His cool wave for the East, predicted a week ago, arrived 

 last night on scheduled time, and the temperature consequently wa« "in the dumjis" 

 over night. There were no frosts, to be sure, but the drop in temperature was sufficient 

 to justify the "cool wave" forecast. 



Charlotte (N. C.) Observer. 



The Observer on last Monday morning published a weather prediction issued from 

 Washington, D. C, stating that chilly blasts would sweep across the country during 

 the week. * * * This forecast was read by many, but most people straightway 

 dismissed it from their minds. During the week, however, there followed such a 

 remarkably accurate verification of the prediction made days before the cold started, 

 that the public sat up and took notice. * * * It only affords another striking 

 illustration of the remarkable progress being made in the development of the weather 

 ecience, and shows also what an excellent and highly valuable service is being given 

 by the Government in this department. * * * The wave advanced true to form 

 and reached the Atlantic by Saturday morning. It pays to listen to the weather man, 



INTERNATIONAL WEATHER CHART. 



A chart of the Northern Hemisphere is prepared each morning in 

 the forecast map room of the Weather Bureau at Washington, based 

 on reports from a number of stations selected to show, in a general 

 way, the fluctuations of barometric pressure in the great centers of 

 action. The most northerly stations from which reports are received 

 are Nome, Tanana, and Eagle, in Alaska, at about latitude 65° N., 

 while the most southerly is Manila, in the Philippine Archipelago, at 

 approximately latitude 14° N. 



Somewhat meager data from five Alaskan stations give a fair 

 indication of barometric changes in that region, but when it is con- 

 sidered that the forecasts for a week in advance are based chiefly 

 on the Alaskan reports, it would appear that a greater number of 

 stations, not so widely b.parated, should be available to give a more 

 complete survey of the atmospheric changes taking place in that 

 area. Action has been taken looking to the establishment in the 

 near future of a station on the Aleutian Islands at Dutch Harbor. 

 Re))orts from this station will give valuable information concerning 

 storms that pass from the eastern coast of Asia northeastward and 

 finall}' reach the United States. At present, storms of this type 

 cross the Pacific Ocean south of latitude 58° N. and strike the North 

 American Continent without warning or indication of their ap[)roach. 

 With a station in operation at Dutch Harbor, few, if any, storms should 

 reach the continent without their coming first being indicated by 

 some of the Alaskan reports. 



During the latter part of the past year reports were received 

 regularly from Nemuro, Japan, and from Shanghai, China. These 



