The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21

Ion, that he would bet his days pay,
wager his honorarium," that there
isn't grain of truth In the long-estab-
HShed predictions from particular days
and months and years. He considers it
highly improbable that September Is
Is a fine day six years out of seven"
that "A green Christmas makes a fat
churchyard:" that March comes in
like lamb and goes out like a lion;"
that "A wet May means a dry July"
or that
II February gives much snow,
A Hne summer it doth foreshow.
He shakes his head when he repeats,
After wet year comes a dry one"
Thus do Professor Garriott and the
United States Weather bureau under
mine the foundations Of popular faith
ana overturn the idols Of the hired
man. But stay-there still is balm in
Gilead. Let us grid up our Ioins and
De not afraid. For, 10, there be a Dan
lei among US, David, yea, a Solomon
cometh with the sword of knowledge,
the buckler of exceeding great wisdom.
The lesser prophet abideth not; but lis
ten to the local weather observer of the
department of agriculture, how he
crfeth aloud upon the house tops, even
upon the roof Of the Chamber of Com
merce, in the city of st. Paul, county
of Ramsey and state of Minnesota. His
signs are the true signs; his weather
Is the weather that is to be.
AT st. Paul, as at all the other
weather stations throughout the United
States and Porto Rico, the local observ-
er has recorded certain official, indubit-
able, genuine and guaranteed signs for
the accuracy of which the federal gov
eminent and Professor Garriott are
ready and willing to cross their hearts.
The st. Paul observer does not venture
into rhyme and nonsense; he clings to
prose and reason. His Sayings" new
ertheless, will never be yelled cheerily
across the wheat field nor halloed down
from the soft, sunny tops of hay
stacks to earnest students munching
pie in the shade below. These, then,
are our observers pithy apothegms:
AT st. Paul, precipitation is pre-
ceded eight to twenty-four hours by
southerly or easterly winds and falling
barometer, and the barometer usually
falls to 1880, or below, before precipi-
tation begins.
THE relative humidity generally in
creases two to twelve hours before pre-
cfpitation; a relative humidity of so
per cent In summer, 20 per cent in
spring and autumn, and 80 per cent in
winter, is usually followed by precipi-
tation.
Giro stratus clouds from the west
in spring, summer and winter, and
from the northwest in autumn, are us
ually followed by precipitation in
twelve to twenty four hours. Precipi-
tation is often preceded by clouds that
resemble white sheets with dark, irreg-
ular edges, which float slowly from d.
Tections between southwest and west
They appear to be a development Of
the alto-stratus, toward the strato- Gu
muluS, and are more common to the
summer months than to the winter
months.
"The high winds Of spring, autumn
and winter come with rising barom-
eter and from southwest, shifting to
northwest; and those of summer, from
southeast to southwest, with falling
barometer.
During periods of abnormalIy high
temperature the wind is from points
between southeast and south in spring
and autumn; from southeast to south
west in summer; and from southerly in
winter. The cold winds of all seasons
come from northwest to north.