PROBABILITIES FOR FEBRUARY, 1881. The mild spell with which January closes will probably continue well into this month, with the exception of a day or two, up to the 12th of the month, with balmy, spring-like weather prevailing in many parts, and snow rapidly disappearing. A couple of days of blustering weather with rain or snow will be followed by snow storms, and cold weather throughout Ontario and the Western United States This term will be followed about the 16th by storms of wind, rain and snow, previous to the setting in of a colder term. With the beginning of the last week of the month, brilliant, mild, spring-like weather will again appear, melting the snow and rendering sleighing impossible in some localities. A few days before the close of the month high winds are likely to prevail, with gales around New York, Long Island Sound and other points, with blustry weather in Canada and the Northern United States. The last two days are, however, likely to be fair, and the month will end with little snow on the ground. This month called March, from Mars, is full of bluster, Mars and old Boreas give equal shocks, One sending equal blows, the other equi-knocks. WEATHER PROVERBS AND WEATHER WISDOM. 1 Tu A windy March and a rainy April make a good May. 2 WE ASH WEDNESDAY. 10 TH II FRI 12 SAT 13 Su 14 Mo 15 TUE 16 WE 17 TH 18 FRI The prevalance of the winds is generally so great in this month that the trees even begin blowing. 1st Sunday in Lent. If at sun-risynge it be cloudie, and ye cloudës vanishe away as ye sun risethe higher, it is a sure sign of faire weather. Likewise, if ye sun settethe rede, it is a sign of faire weather. If it set in a muddie mistie colour, it is a sign of raine. 2nd Sunday in Lent. February makes a bridge, and March breaks it ; March, many weathers rain'd and blow'd, but March 19 SAT grass never did good. 20 Su 3rd Sunday in Lent. 21 Mo 22 TUE Snow can never fall when the temperature is low, be23 WE cause it arises from the contact of two currents whose tem24 Tperature is different. It certainly snows sometimes when 25 FRI the cold is intense; but in this case it does not take the 26 SAT form of flakes, but rather of small spikes of ice, which owe 27 Su 4th Sunday in Lent. 28 Mo their origin to a stratum of clouds belonging to a warmer 29 UE current, lying at a great height in the atmosphere. These 30 VE spikes or needles passing through very dry air cannot increase in size, and hence cannot assume the form of flakes. 31 WHY THE BAROMETER SHOWS TWO DAILY MAXIMA. The pressure of the vapor and that of the gaseous atmosphere have each but one daily maximum and minimum. But the motions of the vapor and of the gaseous atmosphere following different laws, and their maxima occurring at nearly opposite hours of the day, the sum of their effects, or the total pressure as shown by the barometer, exhibits two daily maxima and minima, which occur at different hours from the maximum and minimum of temperature.-Loomis. PROBABILITIES FOR MARCH, 1881. This March will come in like a lion. The beginning of the month will be characterized by storms of wind, which will culminate during the second week in heavy gales throughout the United States. On the 2nd there will be heavy snow-storms in Quebec and Montreal. On the 8th snow-storms are probable in St. Louis, Kansas, Indian Territory and Arkansas. On the 9th and 10th gales are probable around New York, Boston and intervening points, and snow-storms pretty general. About the 7th and 8th, storms of wind and snow may be expected, followed by rain and slush. This condition of things will terminate in cold dip about the 13th or 14th, with a snow fall. On the 13th cold weather may be expected in Toronto, Sarnia and other points west. St. Patrick's Day will arrive during the cold snap in Ontario and Quebec and the Northern States, while rain, snow and sleet will prevail southward as far as Washington, and snow and rain will fall in the Canadian Maritime Provinces. With the beginning of the third week of this month general snow falls, from the Lower Provinces westward to Chicago, are likely to prevail. They will be succeeded by mild and spring-like weather, with indications of rain and snow, while heavy rain storms will probably set in in the Lower Provinces and portions of the United States. During the last week, heavy rains will prevail throughout Canada, with a probable snow fall in the direction of St. Louis, Mo., and easterly gales on the Gulf of St. Lawrence. There will be signs of the opening of navigation in Ontario, while snow talls will be probable at points west of Montreal. On the 17th heavy rains will oe likely in the Lower Provinces and Quebec, and through portions of the United States; and from the 20th to the end of the month there will be wet weather in Halifax. On the 30th the weather will be blustry, with sleet and snow possibly at many points east and west. The old adage about March when it comes in like a lion will not be month probably will end lamb-like. falsified, as the I FRI 2 SAT Whether this month to Flora or to Ceres WEATHER PROVERBS AND WEATHER WISDOM. When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in everything. 3 Su 5th Sunday in Lent. 4 Mo If in spring there be Northe and easte windës, and great TUE droughtes, so will ye summer quarter be, and consequently, WE Scarcitie of grass and hay, so ye contrarie, will be plenteous TH for hay and grass; for there is as much Southe and Easte FRI winds, as Northe and Easte too, and consequently as many 9 SAT wet placës as dry. 10 Su Sunday before Easter. 11 Mo 12 TUE 13 WE 14 TH 15 FRI 16 SAT To try on such a theme as Spring to sing, So well has Thompson touched the spring, 17 Su Easter Sunday. 18 Mo 19 TUE 20 WE 21 TH 22 FRI 23 SAT 24 Su 25 Mo 26 TUE 27 WE A cold April the barn will fill. When April blows his horn it's good for both hay and corn. O, how this Spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day. 1st Sunday after Easter. If ye sun rise rede and fierie, expect winde and raine. If two rainbows appear, signifies faire for ye presente, 28 TH and two or three dayës after raine. 29 FRI A rainebow appearynge after a long draught, is a sign 30 SAT of raine; but after a long time of wet, faire weather. BIRDS AND WEATHER IN NEW YORK STATE. J. Otis Fellows, Hornellsville, N. Y., under date of March 24th, 1879, writes to Forest & Stream :-" Blue jays and perie-finches have been here all winter. English sparrows are getting to be a nuisance; have just sent for some of Stone's bird-traps, and with a little help from the owls and shrikes I think we will be able to hold our own. Bluebirds arrived Feb. 28; black-birds, Feb. 28; robins, Feb. 26; kingfishers, March 3; all gone now. Have had some heavy snow-storms in the last two weeks." PROBABILITIES FOR APRIL, 1881. There will be sharp frost in the beginning of April, with a snowfall on the 4th or 5th, but the spring will open favorably, and everything will be pretty well advanced by April 15th. Floods may be expected in Chicago about the first week in April, with high winds also prevailing in the early part of the month. Snow-falls are prob. able about April 5th. Navigation is likely to open on Lake Ontario about April 7th The The St. Lawrence will be open about the 9th or 11th, and the first steamship will probably arrive about the 17th or 18th. weather will be very stormy in the Lower Provinces about the 20th, with very high water prevailing, but in the west April will be a dry month There will be warm weather just following the 20th, ending Snow-storms are probable in thunder-storms on the 24th and 25th. in the far West on the 25th and 26th, and snow-falls are not unlikely to occur in England at the close of the month. The month will end wet and cold, but, on the whole, will be like a May month. |