Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-10-30


and figures. Mr.. Devoe is famous
not only for his remarkably successful
predictions, but also because of his meth
DDS, which are peculiar to 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-
ploys one has to wait until such condl-
ton has already formed before making
any prediction about it. Mr.. Devoe, says
the Cleveland Plain Dealer, predicted 9
very cold fall and a severe and early VIII
ter. Tbs coolest weather might be ex,
pected, he said, in December. which
would also be very stormy. By colo
weather, Mr.. Devoe said, he meant what
is popularity known as zero weather, ano
he promised it with good sleighing. Win.
ter, according to Mr. DeYoe, will start
In to do business about Nov. s, when
we will have a cold wave which viii
make last winters weather seem very
tame. From that time till the end OF
the month there will be a succession OF
storms and freezing weather. In Deem.
Der there. will be heavy storms the 9th
and Sth, and sleigh riding during the mid
die of the month, when zero weather will
prevail. Christmas will see slight
change, but zero weather viii begin in
January with snowstorns and taste
Of the weather of years ago.
Another expert who, although ne has
retired from public Office, still continues
to keep his eye on the weather, is Il. b.
Dunn, 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 will BE-. Mr.. Damn says,
is by the theory of the eCunter-halancing
of seasons To put it in its crude form,
this theory is to the effect that a warm
summer is followed by cold winter.
The great trouble with this theory is that
it would be necessary to go back a long
time to find out just how the winters
and summers hitch, or in other words to
find to which SUNNI ,r a winter belongs.
Despite the inaccuracies of deductions
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lieYed in to certain extent by vast
majority of weather sharps, and on this
theory their expectations Of a 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
sharps are pretty confident that this the
DRY will work out pretty nearly right this
year. One of the reasons for this, ac-
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 for 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 obtainable yet.
These are the squirrels, which are said
tc lay in an unusual store of nuts when
heavy winter is coming on. As these
reports come in from country districts
pretty nearly every autumn, there has
been a loss Of confidence in the squirrel
as a weather observer. His forecast,
however, is the only one needed now,
and it will be interesting to see if it
bears out the predictions of the weather
prophets.