Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1879 — A New Weather Theory. [ARTICLE]

A New Weather Theory.

London Times. Wheu the number representing any B'ven year is even and exactly divisieby three, that year is the middle one of three cold and wet Summers. When the number representing the year is odd and divisible by three, then that year is the middle of a triad of dry and not Summers. For example, 1860 is even and divisible by three, and the prevailing characteristics of the three years 1869, 1860, 1861 was wet, or wet and cold; and again, 1868 is odd and divisible by three and everybody remembers 1862, 1868, and 1864 as bright, hot and dry Summers. Taking now a range of twenty-seven years over which my own personal Observations extend, and applyiug the rules just given, the wet ana cold t raids were 1853-’55, 1859-’6l, 1871-»73 and 1877-’79, while the hot and dry trakls were 1856-’SB, 1862-’64, 1868-’7l and 1874- r 76; and without claiming that no single year broke loose from this very order of seasons, I fearlessly maintain that all the markedly wet or dry Summers of the past twenty-seven years accurately within some wet or dry periiod as given above; so that no very wet year falls in what should have been a dry period, nor any Very dry year in wbat hypothetically was a wet' period. The number 1881 is odd and divisible by three: if there is anything in my theory, that year ought to be the middle one in a triad of hot and dry Summers. lam looking forward, therefore, with much confldenoe to a good Summer in 1880, followed by two similarly good ones in 1881 and 1882, and for the sake of every interest in the country, I earnestly hope my expectation- may not be disappointed.