Duchesne Record | 1914-08-07 | Page 6 | Predicts 17 Dry Summers

I I PREDICTS I 17 DRY SUMMERS Noted French Scientist Sees a Long Spell of Dry Weather Ahead The Abbe Moreux director of the observatory at Bourges Dourges predicts a dry cycle of 17 years from InS 1918 to 1925 Seventeen years of or dryness he lie says Bays followed by as many years of humidity such is the consequence of ot our being directly dependent on the sun The la last laEt t great maximum was to occur according to my calculations toward 1906 to 1907 It was this which enabled me sue in 1902 1002 to predict the tho rainy period which has persisted over almost the whole surface of the globe and which brought us the great floods of ot 1910 The rain rainy maximum which I had announced announcer for tor 1913 has just ceased We Ve are about to enter into a dry period period pe pe- pe- pe nod which will last particularly from 1918 1318 to 1935 Already says the tho astronomer there are signs of reawakening activity The Tho sun SUll spots 6 pOtS pot s have appeared in the high altitude of ot the central planet The seasons are about to become moro more marked the winters colder and the summers warmer I