Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1918 — Said Hard Winter; Sees Good Summer [ARTICLE]

Said Hard Winter; Sees Good Summer

Herman Rave, a newspaper man and amateur weather observer of Jeffersonville who before the big snow in December predicted With accuracy the severe winter weather of the last few weeks, has made another prediction of a more cheerful character. In brief, it is for a first class summer. Mr. Rave’s prediction of a winter of exceptional severity, with heavy snow, was based on historical precedent, that of the winter of 183738, which was preceded by the same kind of celestial phenomena which marked last summer and fall—sun dogs and moon halos — and also by weather similar to that of last summer coolness and with tornadoes. That winter of eighty years ago was marked by one of the heaviest snows ever experienced, it is said. Mr. Rave says it was followed by a prosperous summer. He says also that there were no floods.