Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-29
.SUMMERLESS Year IS PREDICTED
by WORLD CHAMPION LONG RANGE
WEATHER PROPHET IN CAPITAL.


expects to be taking an advisable vaca-
ton in TERRA del Fuego.
Mr.. Browne, the world champion
long distance weather forecaster, learns
from history that the people have al
ways turned on prophets of disaster,
and he has been saying for the last
four years that 1927 was going to be a
humdinger of a disastrous year.
Nineteen twenty-seven and its sun
spots have begun to do justice by Mr..
Browne. There have been tornadoes,
floods and crop-killing cold waves, all
predicted by this Washington scientist.
But the worst is yet to come!
For 1927, according to Browne, care
full calculations, will be like 1916, his
torically known as year without
summer" Browne admits there will be
some hot spells, but insists there will
be killing frostS as late as July and
then some early froSts, the combina-
tions of which may almost produce a
famine.
Said Browne, on April 26, last year:
There are numerous indications
which tend to sustain the forecasts
which for the past three years have
been identified with my work, or a re-
turn in 1927 in the Northern HemiS-
phere, Of year without a summer
There will be floods and droughts, dam
gerously late killing frosts in spring
and even in midsummer and return
in late summer, to the destruction, or
at least to the serious reduction, of the
great food crops of the world"
Brownies prediction seems to be run
ming gruesomely true to forecast. Most
Importantly, the Mississippi floods,
which he had also predicted when ap-
pearing before the house committee on
agriculture February 6, 1923. He then
advised; the congressman that the gov
ernment should store grain, and other
crops against a famine.
A Costly Frost.
A cold wave from April le to 24-25,
especially predicted by Browne on
March IS, brought a frost which de-
Stroyed $20,00O,000 worth Of fruit and
vegetables over the country--arl almost
historic frost. 1t reduced the proSpec-
tive strawberry crop 35,OOO,OO0 quarts,
according to the department of agri-.
culture, and the Virginia apple crop
from 40 to so per cent
In Brownies January forecast, part
of his Long Range Weather Forecast
Service for which hundreds of con-
Germs pay real money, Browne said
violent tornadoes will be one notable
feature of the year."
Three major tornadoes already have
come, taking hundreds of lives and
great damage, and the tornado season"
is still far off. The Rock Springs tor
nado of early April took death toll
of about so and some 800 lost their
lives in the recent southwestern ter
nado.
How Browne knows all this is too
long a story to be told here. His elab-
crate system of forecaSting is based on
the long time variation in the Suns
heat and its effect in producing
changes in the surface temperatures Of
the oceans.
every maximum sun spot period"
he says, means violent fluctuations of
solar heat. Radiation reaches the earth
unevenly, increasing tendencies toward
earthly disturbances. The ancient Chi
nese knew that large sun spot years
were notable for earthquakes. With
millions of tons of atmospheric pres
sure to the square foot of eartllS sur
face, an alienation of high and low
pressure or weak spots in the earthS
crust pulls the trigger and sets off
quakeS.
"This is only an example of my en-
tire theory of causations Causations
are neglected in orthodox meteorologi-
cal thought"
Browne and the U. S. weather bu-
reau have long been at swords points.
The weather bureau says it can't pre-
dict weather beyond four days at the
very most. 1t admits that sun spots
seem to cause Slight weather changes,
but takes every opportunity to discredit
Browne and all but officially calls him
a faker.
Browne replies that the bureau is in
the hands OF IAN autocratic old fogy"
armed with ancient instruments, who
has propagandized the country against
him. He accuses the bureau of pussy
footing, of costing the farmers $780,
100000 a year and of altering official
weather reports to eliminate actual oc-
currences previously predicted by
Browne. The weather bureau, he says,
"has never forecast severe weather
condition more than SO hours ahead"
Time Will Tell
Whether Browne or the weather bu-
reau is to be diScredited may we'll de-
pend on the weather's actions and crop
conditions for the rest of the year.
Browne is perfectly willing to abide
by this
Meanwhile, his clients are enthuSias-
tic and he shows letters congratulating
him on 85 to 100 per cent accuracy. in
Guiding one from the Texas Wheat
Growers association, terning his fore
casts remarkably right AN along"
Browne claims to serve IS per cent of
all Washington and Oregon apple
growers, many big vegetable and fruit
growers, sportsmen, race promoters,
convention committees and a great va