How the "Weather God" from the USSR predicted cataclysms around the world using an unrecognized method

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Until now, many remember how in the 1980s the directors of state and collective farms already in February had accurate weather forecasts for the sowing period. These leaves were signed by the name of Anatoly Vitalievich Dyakov, and everyone knew that such forecasts could and should be believed. A physicist from the village of Temirtau, Kemerovo Region, predicted the weather all over the world, warned the governments of countries about impending droughts and frosts. The talented scientist was afraid to take money for his work, which the official science called charlatanism, so expensive gifts were sent to him from all over the world.

The future astronomer and meteorologist was born in 1911 in a small village in Ukraine. His mother, a teacher of foreign languages, taught her son English and French. Since childhood, the boy was fond of studying the starry sky and in the early 30s entered the Odessa University without any problems. Then he moved to Moscow, but did not work there for a long time: the young scientist had the imprudence to read a work of his own composition "Travel from Tashkent to Moscow" at a student party. Probably, the opus turned out to be too realistic, and in 1935 the "writer" received three years in the labor camps. Later Dyakov said that he was still lucky - in 1937 he would have been shot for such "creativity".

The prisoner ended up in Gornaya Shoria (an area at the junction of Altai, Sayan and Alatau), where, together with other "political" ones, he joined in the construction of the railway. One day he was summoned by the head of the camp: So, without the right to make a mistake, the astronomer quickly retrained as a weather forecaster. Meteorological forecasts for a large construction site, which was under constant control of Moscow, were extremely important. Judging by the fact that the prisoner Dyakov survived, he managed to quickly become a good weather forecaster.

Having been released after a few years, Dyakov realized that it was not so fun to be free after his release, so he quickly returned to a familiar construction site, only this time as an employee. I started doing the same thing - making weather forecasts. By this time, the scientist began to think about developing his own, special method of working with meteorological data.

Official meteorology still makes forecasts based on pressure drops. Dyakov, on the other hand, began to develop the theory put forward by Russian scientists Chizhevsky and Voeikov at the beginning of the 20th century - about the influence of the activity of the Sun and the magnetic field of the Earth on air currents. Dyakov's forecasting equipment was not precise measuring instruments, but an ordinary school telescope. Three times a day, he recorded the intensity of sunspots, and then made endless graphs, analyzed weather data around the world, and made conclusions. This approach is called.

When, at the end of the construction, the Meteorological Bureau of Gornaya Shoria passed into the department of Hydromet, Dyakov entered into a conflict with the leadership, defending his method. By that time, the accuracy of his forecasts for Western Siberia for 10 days reached 90-95%, for a month - 80-85%. All local collective farms gave preference to data obtained not from large meteorological centers, but from a small station in the village of Temirtau.

In 1966, they started talking about Dyakov in the world, since in 1-2 months he began to predict natural disasters with great accuracy: storm, typhoon, hurricane, heavy rain, and not only in the USSR, but also in France, America, India. Having received information about possible cataclysms, the scientist sent a telegram to that region, tried to warn interested persons, and all telegraph messages were obligatorily assured in the local village council.

In 1966, he sent a telegram to Fidel Castro, warning of an imminent hurricane of enormous destructive force: Surprisingly, the Cuban leader listened to the opinion of an unknown scientist from Russia and gave the order to withdraw the ships from the danger zone. In the predicted time frame, Hurricane Ines swept over the Caribbean and Bahamas, invading Mexico and Florida. Cuba, having managed to prepare, suffered minimal losses. After this incident, they began to listen to Dyakov. In 1972, he predicted a severe drought in the European part of Russia, and then frost in France.

After these cases, the government, by order, "recommended" to Hydromet to study the Dyakov's method. The scientist was invited to read a report on his methodology in Obninsk near Moscow. Until recently, colleagues did not want to listen to the opinion of a talented loner, they publicly called him a charlatan, so now Anatoly Vitalyevich preferred to give the venerable scientists a small "slap in the face". He actually read the lecture and spoke in detail about his method … only he did it in French. Professors, who until recently made fun of the "Altai swindler", were forced to receive important data for them through translators.

Probably, the common cause did suffer from this demonstration of intellectual superiority. Goskomgidromet of the USSR gave the following answer about the results of checking Dyakov's forecasts:

After the death of the unique lone scientist in 1985, his meteorological laboratory gradually fell into disrepair and was destroyed, and his methods and scientific works were largely lost. Therefore, today the memory of the brilliant predictor has remained ambiguous. On one side of the scale are the conclusions of the official commission, and on the other, there is still living memory from the captains of the ships and the chairmen of collective farms, who asked Dyakov for weather data and believed them much more than the official ones - in the family's archives you can see hundreds of telegrams from all over the Soviet Union with the words "Give a forecast!" Kept by the sons of Anatoly Vitalievich and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, which was issued to their father for the successes achieved in increasing grain production.

Heliometeorology never became a recognized science, and today it is perceived by venerable scientists almost on a par with bioenergetics and ufology. Some enthusiasts are trying to recreate Dyakov's forecasting method, but so far no one has succeeded in full.

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