WEATHER FORECASTS
NEXT YEAR TO BE COLD. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 29. The “Morning Post’s” Paris correspondent states: The astronomer, Bigourdon has communicated' to the Academy of Science a remarkable metiorologiciil discovery by Abb© Gabriel, Professor of Mathematics at Caen, of a lunar cycle of 744 years, divided into two periods of 372 years, or four of 186, comprising definite relations of the Lunar orbit with the sun spot variations. He claims that these periods are related to recurrences of excessive winter and summer temperatures, instancing the historically recorded severest winters of 988, 1359, 1544, 1917,' also 1325, 1508, 1694, 1880, hence he predicts very severe cold in 1926. based on the historical cycle of 995, 1553 and 1740.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 July 1925, Page 5
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