Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-23
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

MT. Editor:-My January predictions printed in The Bulletin were: January, 1917. will be another fine month. That is, it will not be exceed ingly cold; unless all signs fail there | will be considerable high wind. More | in fact than usual and owing to planetary conditions [ think most Of | the storms will be rain storms. There are five storm periods in January, some of them quite severe. No per- son on earth can tell even one day in advance whether the storm is to be accompanied by snow or rain, but | conditions now prevailing and to pre- vail for 2S days incline to the rain belief. The first few days of Janu- ary will be mild, severely cold from 10th to 14th. mild again, suddenly 1 changing to cold and so on until Feb
 'The changes in January, 1917, will be more sudden and marked than in many years. The big storm of wind, some cold and probably snow, will be Jan. 23 to 31.''
 I ask you to reprint this as in all my quarter of a century of weather predictions my critics have always confined themselves strictly to the truth until quite recently. Before proceeding I would say that never in all this 25 years of predicting have I ever said a storm would be of any set number of days duration. cri- tic from border state to the contrary notwithstanding
 No one, no matter what may be the grounds has the audacity to deny that up to Jan. 10 my predictions proved correct, between Jan- 10 and IA pre- Jan. B the New York Herald ac- knowledged the world over as the worlds greatest weather guide said: When the official thermometer reg six o'clock yesterday morning New York city experienced the coldesi weather of the winter. But the severe cold spell which entered the metropolis the previous night does not threaten to stay long. New York to-day will have warmer weather, accompanied probably by snow. and snow will fall to-mor- row.
 caused by the sudden change to frigid weather, and charitable organizations were kept busy taking care of appli- cants for relief.
 After the thermometer had regis tered it's lowest mark of the day. the mercury steadily rose. At eight o'clock the official thermometer showed a temperature of degrees. It remained at II degrees from nine o'clock 10 noon, when it rose to 12. The highest temperature of the day was recorded at three o'clock in the afternoon, when the mercury stood at 1s degrees.
 "A wind blowing at velocity of twentN N-four miles an hour at eight o'clock yesterday informing decreased in the afternoon and at eight o'clock last night it was hardly felt.
 Jan. 13 every evening paper in New England predicted snow for the next day. The Cloud Digger said all indi- cations were for rain instead of snow. Which was it? I leave it to your indu1gent readers.
 From then until the end of the month I am willing that any truthful critic should compare with even the daily predictions printed in your valu- able paper.
 Now, for February 1917. You who can remember more than a day at time, must certainly remember how badly the ground hog was jared last year. No shadow was seen from Feb 1 until Feb. 3. but still winter good and strong set in that very date and con. tinued until the end of March,
 This year February is like to come in with a storm but look for pleasant weather the End. The month will be a winter month all right but not near ly as bad as last year. Early in Feb ruary one big storm is due. Another between the 7th and 10th, the worst of the winter between the 18th and 18th, and another about Feb. 24th from then until March very cold.
 There will be at least eight days of zero weather in February.
 THE CLOUD DIGGER.
 Packer, Conn.,, Jan. 22. 1917.
 P. S. Four of the storm periods have does not mean two or three feet of snow in Voluntown, but a general period of stormy weather. The fifth will be here and the storm between the 2sth and 31st will be just as or
 THE CLOUD DIGGER