6/11/71 GD's note: See below
5/23/26 Dayton Ohio newspaper
clipping of Herbert Janvrin Browne's forecast, which EC did
not receive until after 195-29 was given:
NO SUMMER FOR 1927, IS BROWNE FORECAST
Disasters Fulfilling Predictions of This Expert, But Worst Is
Yet To Come; Tornado Season Still Looms As Threat
SAVE THIS AND CHECK UP ON BROWNE
Here are some of the amazing forecasts for 1927 given to NEA
Service by Herbert Janvrin Browne of Washington, on which he
stakes his professional reputation as a long range weather
prophet: "A severe cold wave will start in the Northwest
June 2, sweep across the Corn Belt as far south as the Ohio
and Potomac and reach the Atlantic Seaboard by June 6. It
will be accompanied by freezing temperatures and, over a
considerable portion of this area, it will be accompanied by
snow.
"The period from June 28 to July 2 will see heavy frosts in
portions of this same area, while the week from July 7 to
July 11 will represent a second very dangerous date. The two
periods in conjunction, will carry severe frosts and probably
killing frosts through the great northern grain areas.
"This will be a serious tornado year and one of the greatest
hailstorm years ever known."
BY RODNEY DUTCHER, NEA Service Writer
WASHINGTON May 23 - Sometime next fall Mr. Herbert Janvrin
Browne expects to be taking an advisable vacation in Tierra
del Fuego.
Mr. Browne, the world champion long-distance weather
forecaster, learns from history that the people have always
turned on prophets of disaster, and he has been saying for
the last four years that 1927 was going to be a humdinger of
a disasterous year.
Nineteen twenty-seven and its sun spots have begun to do
justice by Mr. Browne. There have been tornadoes, floods and
crop-killing cold waves, all predicted by this Washington
scientist.
But the worst is yet to come! No Summer!
For 1927, according to Browne's careful calculations, "will
be like 1816, historically known as a year without a summer."
Browne admits there will be some hot spells, but insists
there will be killing frosts as late as July and then some
early frosts, the combinations of which may almost produce a
famine.
Said Browne, on April 26, last year: "There are numerous
indications which tend to sustain the forecasts which for the
past three years have been identified with my work, of a
return in 1927 in the Northern Hemisphere, of a 'year without
a summer.' There will be floods and droughts, dangerously
late killing frosts in spring and even in midsummer and a
return of frosts unseasonably early in late summer, to the
destruction, or at least to the serious reduction of the
great food crops of the world."
Browne's prediction seems to be running gruesomely true to
forecast. Most importantly, the Mississippi floods, which
he had also predicted when appearing before the House
Committee on Agriculture Feb. 6, 1923. He then advised the
congressmen that the government should store grain and other
crops against a famine.
A Costly Frost - A cold wave from April 16 to
24-25,
especially predicted by Browne on March 15, brought a frost
which destroyed $20,000,000 worth of fruit and vegetables
over the country, an almost historic frost. It reduced the
prospective strawberry crop 35,000,000 quarts according to
the Department of Agriculture, and the Virginia apple crop
from 40 to 50 percent.
In Browne's January 1 forecast, part of his Long-Range
Weather Forecast Service for which hundreds of concerns pay
real money, Browne said, "violent tornadoes will be one
notable feature of the year."
Three major tornadoes already have come, taking hundreds of
lives and great damage, and the "tornado season" is still
far off. The Rock Springs tornado of early April took a
death toll of about 60 and some 300 lost their lives in the
recent southwestern tornado.
How Browne knows al this is too long a story to be told here.
His elaborate system of forecasting is based on the long
time variation in the sun's heat and its effect in producing
changes in the surface temperatures of the oceans.
Sun Spots Cause It - "Every maximum sun spot period." he
says, "means violent fluctuations of solar heat. Radiation
reaches the earth unevenly, increasing tendencies toward
earthly disturbances. The ancient Chinese knew that large
sun spot years were notable for earthquakes. With millions
of tons of atmospheric pressure to the square foot of earth's
surface, an alteration of high and low pressure or weak spots
in the earth's crust pulls the trigger and sets off quakes.
This is only an example of my entire theory of causations.
Causations are neglected in orthodox meteorological thought."
Browne and the U.S. Weather Bureau have long been at swords'
points. The Weather Bureau says he can't predict weather
beyond four days at the very most. It admits that sun spots
seem to cause slight weather changes, but takes every
opportunity to discredit Browne and all but officially calls
him a faker.
Browne replies that the bureau is in the hands of "an
autocratic old fogy" armed with ancient intruments, who has
propagandized the country against him. He accuses the
bureau of pussyfooting, or costing the farmers $100,000,000
a year and of altering official weather reports to eliminate
actual occurrences previously predicted by Browne. The
Weather Bureau, he says, "has never forecast a severe
weather condition more than 36 hours ahead."
Time Will Tell - Whether Browne or the Weather Bureau is to
be discredited may well depend on the weather's actions and
crop conditions for the rest of the year. Browne is
perfectly willing to abide by this.
Meanwhile his clients are enthusiastic and he shows letters
congratulating him on 85 to 100 per cent accuracy, including
one from the Texas Wheat Growers Association terming his
forecasts "remarkably right all along." Browne claims to
serve 75 per cent of all Washington and Oregon apple growers,
many big vegetable and fruit growers, sportsmen, race
promoters, convention committees and a great variety of
other interests concerned with future weather.
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