The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-10-25

and figures Mr.. Dcyoe Is famous
not only for his remarkably successful
predictions, but also because of his meth
ods, which are peculiar to himself. His
deductions are made entirely from astro-
nomical data, and he claims that he can
anticipate the formation of Il storm or
any condition of the atmosphere, while
10y 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.. Devoc, says
the Cleveland Plain Dealer, predicted Il
very cold fall and severe and early WIN
ter. The coolest weather might be eX-
pected, he said, in December. which
would also be very stormy. by cold
weather. Mr.. Devoe said, he meant what
is popularity known as zero weather, ana
he promised it with good sleighing. Win
ter, according to Mr.. Devoe, will start
in to do business about Nov. ). when
we will have a cold wave which Will
make last winters weather seem very
tame. From that time till the end OF
the month there will he succession Of
storms and freezing weather. In Decem-
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 will begin in
January with snowstorms and 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 h. b.
Dunn, who was the chief of the weather
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-
cerning the winter for the reason that IT
would be looking too far ahead. The only
way by which an idea can be gained of
what the winter will be, Mr.. Dunn says,
is by the theory of the counter r-balaEc.ns
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 long
time to find out just how the winters
and summers hitch, or in other words to
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 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 GUNNER 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 II de-
grees. there will have to be jus: so much
cold weather.
Reports frorl certain class Of wealth
er observers are not ottainah!e yet.
These are the squirrels. which are said
to lay in an unusual store of nuts when
a heavy winter is coming on. As these
reports come in from country districts
pretty nearly every autumn, there has
been loss Of confidence in the squirrel
as 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
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