The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-20
PREPARING WEATHER REPORTS.
How "old Prob" Makes His Forecasts of
Atmospheric Changes.

Atmospheric Changes.
went up to the signal Office the other
day to ask Gen. A. w, Greedy how he
and his fellow conspirators regulated the
weather Of which this season has been
so prolific. l found the lucky and
plucky Artic explorer at his desk, robed
in a full suit of white flannel over
checked flannel Shirt dream of COM
fort and a very delightful antithesis to
the young lieutenant who, six years ago,
was waiting for death at Camp Sabine.
"What is the percentage of right esti-
mates of this bureauP
sit averages something over so per
cent. You would not think so to read
the papers. But the fact is, when prob
abilities prove to be correct newspapers
do not notice it; they only have some
thing to say when we miss fire. A New
England daily paper said last Wednes-
day that our estimates for that section
hadn't been right in week. sent
the statement to my expert, whose busi-
ness is verhcation, and he went over the
facts and figures, and found that "a per
cent of the predictions of the bureau
for the period and section had been cor
rect"
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