Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1916 — SUN SPOTS FALSE WEATHER OMENS [ARTICLE]

SUN SPOTS FALSE WEATHER OMENS

New System of Long Range Forecasting Declared Fallacious by Government Bureau. EXPERTS SCOUT ‘DISCOVERY’ Theory Has Been Investigated by Scientists of International Reputation and All Agree That It Has No Value. Washington.—The chief of the United States weather bureau stated recently, says the Weekly News Letter of the United States department of agriculture, that in the opinion of the bureau a new system of long range weather forecasting, which has been widely discussed, was quite fallacious. The new system is said to be baaed on the spottedness of the sun and rifts and shafts of solar radiation. In the opinion of the weather bureau it belongs in the same class with other methods of long range weather forecasting based on lunar, planetary, magnetic and astrological considerations. None of these systems, It is said, has any scientific value. During the last few years the weather bureau has received full specifications concerning all the essential de-, tails of this particular system. The alleged discovery is, therefore, fully known to the weather bureau, and has been carefully studied and examined by its scientific staff. Moreover, other scientists of international reputation now connected with the strongest institutions of the world engaged in astronomical research and conducting investigations into solar and terrestrial physics, have also passed upon these new theories. These authorities are in accord that the deductions and conclusions drawn from the solar conditions on which the new system is based are unwarranted. .