Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-10-31

and figures. Mr.. DeNot Is famous
not only for his remarkably successful
predictions, but also because ot his meth
ods, which are peculiar 10 himself. His
deductions are made entirely from astro
nomical data. and he claims that he can
anticipate the formation of storm or
any condition of the atmosphere, while
by the method which the government EN-.
pioys one has to wait until such conGi'
ton has already formed before making
any prediction about il. Mr.. Devoe, says
the Cleveland Plain Dealer, predicted
very cold fall and severe aud early win.
ter. The coolest weather might be ex.
pected, he said, ia December, which
would also be very stormy. BY cold
weather, MIR. Deyoe said, he meant what
is popularity known as zero weather, and
be promised it with good sleighing. Win
ter, according to MIR. Devoe, will start
in to do business about Nov. ), when
we will have q cold wave which VIII
make last winters weather seem very
tame. From that time till the end OF
the month there will be succession OF
storms and freezing weather. In Deeem-
Der there will be heavy storms the 9th
and 9Th, aud sleigh riding during the mid
die of the month, when zero weather will
prevail. Christmas will see slight
change, but zero weather will begin in
January with snowstorms and a taste
of the weather OF years ago.
Another expert who, although he has
retired from public Office, still continues
to keep his eye on the weather, is K. b.
DG5n. who was the chief of the weather
bureau in New York for many years.
Mr.. Dunn is one of those experts who
declare that the science of meteorology
has not as yet been perfected enough to
admit of any accurate prediction con-
corning the winter for the reason that il
would be looking too far ahead. The only
way by which an idea can be gained OF
what the winter viii be, Mr.. Dunn says.
is by the theory OF. the counter balancing
of seasons. To put it in its crude form.
this theory is TO the effect that warm
summer is followed by a cold winter.
The great trouble with this theory is that
il would be necessary to 60 back a long
time to find cut just how the winters
and sumSHers hitch, or in other words 10
find to which summer a winter belongs.
Despite the inaccuracies of deductions
made on this theory, it is nevertheless be-
lieved in to a certain extent by a vast
majority of weather sharps, and on this
theory their expectations of severe win
Ter are based. From the fact that last
winter was an unusually mild one and
the summer a very hot one, the weather
shnrps are pretty confident that this the
orv will work out pretty nearly right this
year. One of the reasons for this, &C
cording to Mr.. Dunn, is that on account
of the warm weather there is just now
an unusual excess of temperature, and
TO bring the weather down to the annual
mean 70. this locality, which is 81 de
grees, there will have TO be just so much
cold weather.
Reports from a certain class of wealth
er observers are not ebtainable yet
These are the squirrels, which are said
to lay in an unusual store OF nuts wheE
heavy winter is coming on. As these
reports come in from country districts
pretty nearly every autumn there his
been loss of confidence in the squirrel
as weather observer. dis forecast,
However, is the only one needed now.
and it will be interesting IL see If II
ears out the predictions &C the weather
prophets,