New-York tribune., 1899-02-17
DE ZOE EXPLAINS AND PREDICTS.
no MILD WEATHER UNTIL MARCH 50
LATER SPRING AND A HOT. DRY

While the nttle blizzard raging last Monday
Professor Andrew Jackson pe Voc sat down N
his weather factory in HacNensacS. and ind!teI
the following lucid, sparkling and entertaining
essay:
To the Editor OF The Tribune. ..
Sir: on the third of December last you pup.
lshed an article from me in which stated ina;
that ts '4es Se sres WG storm % belt You'd sS to R
Atlantic coast and We would naEe S5IS Sdt - ~ ws
But ! made a mistake in the time that t1e gres;;
bzzerds would strike this section II ! had sia,ed @
have been perfect, FOR | have never seen such a
severe streach Of Weather and ne end IS n no' s ~
date when the extreme cold weather would Teaen
us Just this | have discovered that there ATE a.
ways TWO great storm belts stlei iching QY'I - S.u,
part of the Earths surface causing binding show
n some sectlors an ana por a 4ake Of the New
moon and the other follows the @ane OF tAe ~. w.
under tho Now moon is travelling from The soutn
East towards the North VS.. and the storm ns,
under the f moon Is 'TayfnE no ro" .torr ,s >U 5e,s
usually cross each other during the months oI
march and september then W. se. me me r. I'll, oS,Tr
whenever the moons shadow crosses the Equator
belts are now approaching each other ana VII VII
during I2iS oH5I 6s month mo h. and the rst part arcn
And are not likely 70 have any mlid "ea'iss ,ts
great storm belt under new moon Vii re norm .,
the United states and will have a Jew days ..
Weather
snow and a few warm days between the y 10 no
25 about thc 18th the great storm oe-S ut.SS
the full moon Will cross this section going soutn,
and the great EquinONal storm viii strike US ~.
lowed by and extreme cold weather, oet"egiii
the 9Th TO Goth most people believe that we WI!
have an early spring But natural laws 30 70.
Indicate an early spring. But We viii nave Yer!
hot dry summer do not claim 20 be an astron29-
mer But do claim that extreme heat, or co.u,
Is caused by the position 81 storm oelts ana 1Ie
storm belts travel just where the moons sn1Ion =,
leads Therefore. expert Astronomers can 71. ~
a certainty. just when the moons shadow VII cr9''
our Earths atmosphere near the Equa a,or A.
though there may not be- an eclipse or the sun yI
our Earth at such times Will have extreme coiu
Weather no matter Wlther Il be July or Janlar!
last summer when had extreme not weather.
learned scientists published lengthy articles trNlhs
to prove that our extreme heat was caused by s.A
spots: showing that there was unusual ACTIVITY
on the suns surface. And in Nil. when we haa
frost all summer the learned Astronomers 81 moss
days stated that f. was due 70 unusual .arSe spoS
on the sun And lis heat diminished sucn
therles are like the man who drinks wnsNe u
winter 20 keep warm. and IN summer 20 keep cos.
I do not believe that the moon + an old burnt up
planet running around our Earth simply as an orna..
ment But believe that the Lord has paced y
there among other duties. 70 regulate our Nea'nef'
And il our Astronomers Will give me- tneii as7ls'-
ence will soon give the world perfect system
\. j. DE Voc. MeteoroogiS
Hackensack. Feb. g.