THE WEATHER IN 1926.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4943, 24 February 1926, Page 2

THE WEATHER IN 1926.

WORLD-WIDE

AN AMERICAN PREDICTION,

The weather god’s latest “strafe, which appears to h.ave been impartially directed to encompass, the. greater 'part of the Dominion, has left the patient Wellingtbnian wondering wha.t the precious deity has in mind later on, when “.stark winter holds the earth in thrall.” (says the N.Z. Tiroes). That the present unsettled conditions are but the , forerunner of a worldwide series of meteorological disturbances is; suggested by a recent article in the . American journal, the Satute, day Evening ]?ost..

An extrapt reads as follows ■ “What all students of the problem are moat interested 1 in at the present time is .the forecast concerning the years 1926-27, when .the peak of the cycle (a time of maximum aun-spot activity) is reached. According to H. Janvrin Browne and other followers of this new science, these are to be danger years, the ones that threaten the world’s harvests. Attention is ca.lled to the fact that not only does the period 1926-1927 represent' a recurrence of the importance of 556 year sun-spot maximum, the ‘second since 1816, ‘the year without a summer,’ but every 270 or 275 yeans comes a coincidence of adverse weather conditions all over the world. The period 1926-1927 will. be ' the-sixth 27Lyear cycle from the great famine of Diocletian- in the years. 299-300- A.D. -It will be 48 sun-spot cycles from the great obscuration, of the sun in 1372, which event was recorded by Chinese historians. The British Journal of Astrology made the following announcemeht in 1921 : “The year 1926 isi deptined to shake the world to ■ its foundation, both physically and politically. is to be a succession of plagues, famines, floods, shipwrecks, rioting, and revolution.”