Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1911 — Forecasting the Weather. [ARTICLE]

Forecasting the Weather.

Of all tb«- scientific departments the weather bureau nis started with the least & mount of knowledge of its particular subject, observers b-.'d gathered a small amount of diHassjciated facts and based conclusion ns it suited upon the facts. But meteorology was a very indefinite thing, strongly filtered with bad guesses. myths, traditions and theories. It was like the .German grammar of which Mark Tfvain complained. For every page of rules there were forty pages of exceptions. When the weather bureau was started it was with little worth while. It had to map ont a campaign of study, and there was no way of telling how long It might be before the study would permit of the laying down of rules. livery one knows that the bureau is far more efficient than it was. It is getting the hang of the weather, learning itS|multitudinous tricks. Its coyness and treachery, v It is in the nature of the case a slow affair.—Toledo Blade.