The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1882-05-12
Weather Predictions.

A. J. DeVoe, of Hackensack, N. j., sends
to the New York Sun his conclusion, regard.
ing the weather this month, based upon
| his meteorological observations. A portion
of the period covered by his predictions
having already passed, our readers will be
enabled to judge how much Mr.. DeVoe
| knows about the weather. He says:
Although the spring Is backward, there are
good indications of large crops. May will
enter warm and pleasant On the I'd and 4th
there will be rain, with thunder Showers
| There will be two cold spells in the month,
the first occurring from the 9th to the 9th,
and the second from the 18th to the 20th-
| Persons having choice plants should keep
them well protected Till after the goth There
will be three warm spells in May, the first
| from the 1st to the 9th, The second from the
18th to the 10Th, and the third from the oath to
the 3lst Thunder showers will occur about
4th, 18th, gath, and 3lst. The rainfall from
] New Jersey to Maine will be below the aver
age. The driest weather will be over the
Eastern States, and the heaviest rains will
fall in the south Atlantic States. Northeast
gales will occur near Washington d. c.,
about the It'll, 18th, 18th, 28th and the tenn
perature will average below the mean OF the
season.
About the 9th and the Eth, ifa bank of
hazy clouds is lying along the south and the
wind is from the southeast, there will be
frost If the wind blows from the west there
will be no danger. Our hay crop will be
large
Prof Vennor, in his Weather Bulletin for
May, makes the following predictions for the
summer and autumn of 1882:
First-A season that will well merit tho
designation of cool, 10 cold and wet gener.
ally. Not that there will not be terms of
summer warmth and even intense heat for
periods, but rather that these last will appear
in the retrospect as of but comparative insig-
nificance, or rs the exceptions to the general
rule.
Second-The season will be marked by not
only great precipitation, but by mugginess
Of atmosphere, generally, caused by the reek-
ing condition Of the earth and the long con-
tinuance of clouded sky. This will result in
periods of extreme sultriness and heavy wea-
there during which the thunder and hail
storms will occur. In other words, the sum.
mer will be the reverse of clear and dry.
Third-There is likelihood of June and
August frosts in Northern, Western and
Southern sections, and q general cold wave
may occur toward midsummer.
Fourth-The autumn months will continue
moist. September will probably give rains
and floods in western Canada, and in West
ern and Southern sections of the Uuited
States, October will be much the asme
with early cold and snow falls. Novem.
Der will begin the winter of 1882 SO, a winter
likely to be memorable on account of its ex.
ceptionally heavy snow falls and very cold
weather over the whole northern hemisphere.
That cold and wet summer is invariably fol-
lowed by acold and stormy winter" is a truth
now so well proven and borne out by the
testimony of past record that we cannot light.
ly put it aside; and, if we have good and
sufficient grounds for predicting the former,
as we most assuredly have this time, it is but
right that we should warn the people of the
latter IN good season.
Fifth and last-The approaching season
will probably be the first of a couple of wet
summers and as 1882 is so is 1883 likely to
be. But here we must stop for the present.