Prognostic Faiths
There seems to be a general conviction abroad—indeed, one paper accepts the prognostic as a faith—that we are approaching a hard and bitter winter. Is there any evidence whatever that anyone can foretell the weather so much as a month ahead? We have had hosts of theories, from the semi-scientific a: from the local wiseacre, whose faith in the beneficent arrangement of the world makes him conclude that plentiful berries are supplied in relation to the coldness of the coming winter. Of course, aeroplanes have greatly added to the material of weather prophecy, but this has not yet helped our prophets to infer the weather of January from the symptoms of November. On the subject of weather, a recent 'sudden hailstorm gave further witness of the narrow passage of such storms along certain routes. It was hailing heavily on the east side of a certain Common while the west side was quite untouched.
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