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IN NATURE, vol. xxi. p. 48, in the Meteorological Notes, it is stated, on the authority of Mr. Glaisher, that the present unusually cold weather set in on October 27, 1878. You perhaps are not aware that this was predicted almost to the day by Prof. Piazzi Smyth in NATURE, vol. v. p. 317. In an article on Heat Waves he gives the dates of these phenomena as follows:— Years 1834.8, 1846.4, 1857.8, 1868.8, and 1880.0; the heat wave of 1880 to be preceded by a cold wave commencing 1878.8, which is, I need scarcely say, the end of October, 1878.
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JENKINS, B. Remarkable Prediction of Cold. Nature 21, 81 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/021081a0
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