The Dawson journal., 1883-02-08
soMtf THINGS
10 Learn in Order to BecOmi
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nostics are reduced from observation
gathered from the most reliable sour
ces in England, embracing liz years
from 1917 to 1880. !.
/. .lFhea the vernal equinox is no
? procaded or fol lowed BY the usua
equinoxial storms, the succeeding SUM
. mer will be dry at least FIVE times ii
six. .
2. If easterly storms occur on Chi
18th, 10Th, or Dist of May, they ensa-
ing summer will likewise be dry, III
same characteristic applies to storma
from whatever direction on the 25th,
9th or 9th of March, viz. dry
summer will follow. VI i.
3. Whens storms happen from or be-
tween tie 9th and Add of March, hav-
! ing dlfections from the west southwest
&c succeeding summer will be wet
4t2times out of six. In Englaad,
$50 both winter aid spring are dry,
are always cold, but when these
= o seasons are wet they arerusaally
Warm O he contrary, dry sums
mers and aut''mns are. most always hot
and wet summers cold : hence if the
humidity, an approximately correct
idea may be formed what the prevail
ing temperature will be. re L.
4. A wet autumn, succeeded by
mild winter, generally followed by
dry cold spring. which will be unfavor-
able to The growth of vegetation.
5 A wet summer is most always
succeeded by a severe, cold winter,
because the terrestrial has been car
RED off by evaporation; it has also
been observed that wet summers pro
note great proficiency of the white
thorn Of dagrase, so that an annual
fruitf 'lness of the shrubs is consider.
ed passage of an intensely cold vim
ter.
& i severe winter is also indicatcd
by tie esrly departure in lie autumn
by cranes and other migratory birds,
because these birds never leave for n.
Southern clima until the cold season
has commenced i'll the higher North.
reag.ons. :,
l. When the month of September is
showery it seldom rains during the
coming month of May; and contrary.
should September pass without show.
ers. the following May will be rainy
and wet.
3. When in summer and autumn.
the predominating wind is from the
southwest, or when the temperature is,
usually low for the season, and the
barometer be low, profuse rains may
certainly be expected at the end of the
season.
Tempestuons storms and other
violent comlnotions of the clouds pro-
duee crisis in the atmosphere, whuchi
is followed by succession of several
months of fine boisterous weather Of,
whatever the incoming change may
be. H. :.
10. A mild and rainy winter is al
ways followed by an unproductive sum-
mcr. ~. .r,.,..
ii. When rainy weather prevails
during moon, the change succeeding.
will be fair weather for seFera' days,
after which rain will again set in: but
when fair weather prevailed during the
'noon, and the succeeding change be- !.
rain, fair weather will again return
after the f u-th or fifth day of the moon
and coutinus as before.
II. The mos! decided indication for,
fair weather is the apparently great
elevation of the celestial coucave aad
an evident disposition of the clouds to
dissolve and vanish away,
ID. Rich tues of deep red and ol-
ange reflected by evening clouds sze
sure signs of pleasant day .fGaJWlBg;,
but when the Same appearance of the
sky occurs at sunrise, bad weather and
rain may be expected-a fact we'll
confirmed by many observers.
IA Where the sky is overset and
small detached clouds of darker shade
move hurriedly in opposite objections
heavy rains may be expected = s,...
rs, AT the approach of rain, smoke
and vapors descend to the ear,h. be-
cause the air is too light to- support
them, and at such times birds also fiy
nearer to the oarth than at other times
l6 When at the close of a, summer
dry dew forms copiouslY, the following
day will be pleasant
Have Georgia farmers ever paused
to consider what the credit system cost