The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21
When the day lengthens
Then the cold Strengthens

Wise. St. Fau1 may Well believe the
singer this year. but the United States
department Of agriculture is too "can-
n.y." the department, at least an inter-
esting section of it, the federal weather
bureau, will ''hae it's dootS"
All that the weather bureau doubts,
especially about weather, would fill a
book, has filled book, indeed-a blue,
notwithstanding volume of pages
and XXI charts
A few months ago, 1t appears, the
weather bureau was humming to
itself:
If on Friday it rain
Twill on Sunday again;
If Friday be clear,
Have for Sunday no fear.
Smiling superior, official smile, the
bureau wonders whether anybody be-
lieves these popular decisions and falls
a-thinking. That's nonsense" NUT
ters the bureau. Then it carols anew:
Evening red and morning gray
VIII set the traveller on his way;
But evening gray and morning red
VIII bring down rain upon his head!
Nov that" comments the bureau,
retrenching its imperial mien, that is
sense if not science"
Whereupon the bureau took its type
writer in both hands and resolved to
'segregate from the mass of available
data the true (weather) sayings that
are applicable to the United States"
But, as woman always gives her
own opinion after retailing that Of 9TH
er women, the bureau decided to COM
bine with it's synopsis of true Sayings"
the reports of its own observers upon
local weather signs officially observed.
The interesting outcome is Bulletin
No. 33-Weather Folk Lore and Local
Weather Signs, prepared under the d.
rection Of Willis L. Moore, chief United
States Weather Bureau, by Edward B.
Garriott, professor of meteorology"
Every wind has its weather.
So far Bulletin No. 33 agrees with
Lord Bacon. 1t guesses, also, with
Izaak Walton, whose life was one long
Lent, that
When the wind is in the north
The skillful fisher goes not forth;
When the wind is in the east,
49, lis good for neither man nor beast:
When the wind is in the south,
-, 1t blows the flies in the fish, mouth:
When the wind is in the west,
There 1T is the very best.
We are cautioned. however, that in
many poems and proverbs, "the terms
employed to indicate, wind directions
are indefinite and confusing" 0mag-
Inc the weather bureau confusedD
The term north or northerly is often
applied Unfortunately to winds blow
ing from the north quadrants," that is,
from the whole upper half of the COM
pass. las a matter of fact, a varia-
ton Of the wind for few points on the
compass frequently changes absolutely
the character of the weather that the
wind Indicates. In the case of north
or northerly winds those from a few
points east Of north indicate rain or
snow and Outlines the severest storms
to which great part of the United
States is subject. On the other hand.
winds from points west Of north gen
orally indicate fair or clearing wealth
err"
In the matter of clouds the bureau
has found few sayings" worthy OF the
federal stamp. Two saws only are
quoted without dissent,
1t never clouds up in June night
for rain.'
Enough blue sky In the northwest
TO make Seotchman jacket is a sign
of approaching clear weather"
But at this point Washington relies
much upon itself and Holy Scripture,
and says:
Clouds flying against the wind indi-
cate rain.
1T will not rain much so long as the
sky is clear before the wind; but when
clouds fall in against the wind. rain
will soon follow.
When a heavy cloud comes up in the
southwest and seems to settle back
again, look out for a storm.
IF clouds at the same height drive
up with the wind and gradually become