Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1890 — An Explanation of the Weather. [ARTICLE]

An Explanation of the Weather.

I heard a solution suggested by a friend a few days ago, which appears to be the most reasonable of any that has been made, s vys a writer in the Atlanta Constitution. “The weather,” said he, “moves in cycles. These cycles reach a maximum and minimum of coldness and warmth at certain per.ods. Tor instance, you remember that the winters from 1879 to about 1887 were exceedingly cold, very much more severe than the winters for years immediately before or after. That Cycle reached the limit of coldness during the winter of 1886, when the winters began to moderate, and they have been doing so ever since. Last winter was a phenomenally mild one, but this one is even more so. The cycle did not then reach the limit of warmth, but it probably has this winter, and if so it will begin to grow colder after this year and continue to increase in severity, until within the next ten years it will reach the limit of severity again, when the reaction will take place and the cycle will begin to move in the other direction. Prior to 1876 it reached the height of coldness during the winters of the w»r. Every old soldier will recall the bleakness of those winters, with the snow on the ground and raining most of the time. Ten years before this, however, the winters in the South were very much like they are now. I remember distinctly that the winter of 1854 was one of the mildest and most pleasant that I ever saw. It was just like this weather. You can trace the record for years before this and you will find that it is just as I tell you—the weather moves in cycles. I don’t know what causes it, but I suppose it is something about the movements of the planets. There is something in their revolution that causes these periodical changes, aud it will last as long as the hoavenly bodies continue to move as they have been doing since the foundation of the universe.”