Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-12-01
VennOr's Predictions for Deeem-

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hardly like the look of this month
viewed from the present standpoint
(September 1S). 1t "looks ugly" ano
smacks of cold, bitter, biting cold, norti
and south, east and west, but with
sparsely snow-covered ground in North
ern New York and Canada, and bare
ground West and South. The month
bids fair to be cold and dry. rather than
otherwise, and this cold may be some
what proportionate to the heat of the
past summer, and extend to extreme
southern and western points. The en-.
try of the month is likely to bring in
winter abruptly in most sections where
winter is usually expected and expert
enced.
As December il an all important one
of the wintor months, and, further, is
one about which am particularly care
full (as miss there is generally a. miss
everywhere). I append the following
more detailed forecast of it for the ben
eft of persons to whom the character of
the closing month of the year is of spe-
cial interest:
December, 1SS1.-1, 2, 8. Storms or
indications Of storms in Atlantic. and
cold, blustery weather in New York.
Boston and other seaboard cities; snow
falls in the Middle and Northern States
and Canada; very cold weather West.
Probably brief mild term. s.
to IL. Generally very cold wealth
er, probably commencing and ending
with snOwfallS in northern, middle and
western sections, and bleak and stormy
weather South.
Is aud IA. Probably milder in all
sections. with rains South and West to
q limited extent.
Is to 20. Very cold and bhstery Pc
riod, with snowfalls where these were
experienced in 1876 and 1880. the 10th
and 20th probably being the days most
marked in this respect: intense cold in
Canada and the New England States.
25. Christmas had cold and stormy
period both before and after it, but the
day itself may just escape.
26 to 81. After the 26th see nothing
but cold, snow and buster to the close
of the year for Canada and much of the
United States, West and South, the
month probably resembling, in many re-
spects, the December of 1876 and 1885,
As to the intensity or degree of these
snowfalls l have no very definite indi-
cations, but am strongly impressed in
the direction of low temperatures for
the fore part of the approaching winter
season.
But January will have its "thaw" this
time, and probably very marked one.
FOR NORTHERN SECTIONS IN THE UNI
TED STATES AND CANADA.
December-Snowfalls are probable on
the I'd. 4th, 9th, 7th, 9th, 18th, 18th, 18th
and 18th, Goth or 9th, 29th or SOth.
These dates include both light and heavy
snowfalls, the former being far more nu-
merOus than the latter.
Cold snaps are probable on the 1st and
I'd. 5th, 9th, and 1Oth, I6th,l7th and 18th,
20M and 21st. Coolest periods in ital-
ics.)
Mild weather probable Sd and 4th,
18th, 18th and 18th.
Blustery weather is likely to occur on
the 18th and Sth. 9th and 10th, 18th and
10th, 18th and 10th, Goth and 30th.
GENERAL IMPRESSIONS.
My general impression respecting the
winter of 1881 'S2 at the present time
25th) point to some very
open and balmy periods of considerable
duration toward midwinter; early and
intense cold at the setting in of the sea-
son, and again toward and in March; a
rather backward and wet spring, and
cool, wet summer, with but few very hot
periods.