The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-11-30
LONG RANGE WEATHER PRoPHEls

To the people of the Sunshine Terri
tory, who daily rejoice in it's g.cricu.
weather, and to the many thousand
who annually come within our border.
seexirg fe1lth ard happiness under on
cloudless skies. tie daily forecas s of tn
Tn Cd States Weather Bureau, as t.
rule. appeal by their tone of truthfv-
monotony. for they run fair weat e
no decided change in temperature" TIL
grea err portion of the time. But |
many par's of the United States tho
the spr'ngirg up OF a small army of so
called long-range weather ~,orecas e 5
who wax fat upon the unsuspec ing arr
credulous pubic F~ortuna'e'y Neved
has proven a most buren, field for these
misguided and ~misguidirg indv'd "a
and few, If any. of the local pres CT In,
State are given to publishing Their SC
called pred C iors.
At the recent tr'ennial convention c
the officials of the United Sta es Weatn
err Bureau. at Peoria. ~Illirois, many 8
entific subjects were discussed and mu
research was shown, but that wh't.
most impressed the layman was thu
earrestress and sincerity of those pres
EMIT was apparent that they believe
H. tLa'r 1r,. xvorlx nvI z..N- -.
long range forecasts. especially. rec ivec
earnest attention. says the Peoria Her
aId-Tro nscript, ret because thre I:
any spirit of jealousy. for the sc'enti-.
weather men, such as are identified wilt.
the United S es bui eau ard bl1eaus
foreign countries, find ro.hrg CT VIII oh
to be envious in the sharp practice ma
who issues wiley and apparently rel be
Weather predictions. The officials Of IL
government bureau a.e men of scene
and research, and their predictions aIc
based on science and experience n ma
tors Of this kind. They are paid by in.
government and do not have as an in
cen.ive towards unreliabl lily, as in I'll.
other case. the popular opinion CT (he
public. The discussion on long range
forecasts was prompted by a paper D.
Prof E B. Carr oft, of ash- g.on O.
the central bureau. He SPOKE of til,
theories regarding weather per.odicit es
deseadent upon lunar or planetary In
frences and pronounced them theories
o. faith and not OF Irlcti e. He su n
mar.zed the resul s obtained BY compar
isons of max mum and minimum su.
srot periods wi h the phenomena of tbs
ear his atmosphere. and stated that the
next advance IN meteorological scien .
must result from ex ensive research ir
SOAR physics and terres ial magnetism
and compar's son OF solar and terresti :
phenomena. He referrei to the means
proposed to accomplish a world-w.d,
plan of observation rermi ting system,
attic study of the prob'em.
Publ c sen ,mont must be ar use.
against these fake reports. The pub.
should discred't a newspaper he
OhSiS US COAuIililS " THESE ptOylc. L HtSt
alleged reports are a menace and a del.
ment. not only to horticul ure, agri u.
ture, crops, &c. but 10 life. / k ow G.
several cases of severe PIC ira. ions arc
almost death. Men and women of ner-
vous temperaments read of cyclones.
and complete destruction of the wor..,
were driven almost to the edge of IN |
graves. Pub ; mt me mu b
aroused against IN 8 knd CT bus meas. .
1t is the opinion Of the leading me:erol-
ogis $ CT the word that public Interests
are injured by the publica ion OF these
so-called long-rarge weather forecasts
ard especially where such Predictions re-
lac 10 severe storms. floods. drcu.a.
and other phenomena Of a dangerous aru
damag ng character. They should be
dscountenanced by all men lovirg hor,
esty ana honor in scicn ifc wol:, 10,
they bring the science of msteorolCg y
into d,srepute and cannot, in any mas
ner. be made in response to a desire 10
advance that sclen1e along useful lines,
but rather retard The work of the honest
inves igator. through whore efforts. on'y
can gan be made in the fundamental
knowledge OF the causation of the
weather.
If Van Du7er's majority for Congress
Is as larpa 90 the faca ~ tho 1paxfot