Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-01-23
For the Grant County Herald.
METEOROLOGY.

Mr.. EDITOR 81 observe in your last
issue you very politely pass favorable
notice of my writings and weather pre-
dictions, expressing at the same time
desire to hear from me again. This / re-
ciprocate with pleasure, by herewith
forwarding my weather-pfophecies fer
the next month--February, based on
Astro- Meteorological principles for the
latitude of Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa,and
the western and southwestern part of
Michigan (; and should your readers be
interested in these calculations, may
occasionally repeat these communica-
tons.
It is now upwards of thirty years
since first commenced combining Me-
teorology with Astronomy, or what may
DE better called, the study Of Astro-Me-
teorology, and from long and attentive
obser alton, believe have brought the
result to an extraordinary correctness,
which fatter myself your readers will
discover. | don't mean TO say that in
every instance | am correct; it would
indeed be most wonderful discovery il
| were; but mean to say this, that ]
| think it will be found I am right in
four instances, if not five, out of six
Even this, Mr.. Editor, is of vast ad-
vantage TO the agriculturalist and others,
by gaining SO close foreknowledge of
the weather.
Notwithstanding the study is, in some
instances, abstruse and difficult, still, l
am in hope | shall hear of others follow
ing the same course as myself in this
beautiful application of the mind. an
well aware that many persons are soep-
ties as 10 its truth. This have always
attributed to an inability to overcome
the difficulties attending such study,or
else it proceeds from an obtuse determi-
nation TO be disbeliever. When first
came to know that such master-spirits
Of the day, as the great Lord Bacon and
the late Doctor Herschel, were strong
converts to its truth, became quite Ger :
tain the doctrine of Steller Influence on
our atmosphere had grounds for correct
ness, which of conrse had only to be o.
vercome by close, strict observations.
For long period in England l pub
lished my weather and other calcula-
tons, and from now becoming a denizen
of the s'Far West" have felt graft
fcation in publishing them here.
Besides these predictions, l have like
wise added a few rough lines in poetry,
hastily thrown together, applicable to the
occasion, which, should you consider
runrth anything, asa be inserted with
these
PREDIcTIoNs.-Ths month Of Febru-
ATTY is likely to open with fair weather.
and probably frost, lasting some days
Cold, stormy weather sets in on or near
the 18th, attended at intervals with snow.
Colo, piercing winds on the 2lst and 22d.
Perhaps snow-storms on the Oath or 25th.
Days of storm, more or less in guam
tity, may be looked for on or about the
Sth, 18th, 18th, Oath and Both.
On the 18th, the planets Saturn AID
Mercury form sqaure or quartile aspect
with each other their confguration Of
ten influences windy, unsettled weather,
and sometimes snow at this season of the
year.
think it right TO observe, there may
be other storm days during the month,
but those named may with some consid-
cradle certainty be depended upon.
Keen blows the wind, for winter yet bears
sway,
Glitters with rimy frost the leafess spray
Frost bound in sluggish ice, the stream stands
still,
A snowy mantle clothes both plain and hill
But soon soft Spring shall burst the icy band,
And scatter verdure DER the favored land.
THos. S. SHAW.
Shaw Hill, near Prairie duChien, }
January 9th, 1854.