Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-20
A HOT WAVE.
The Hottest Weather Of the
Summer Due in a Week.
EXCESSIVE RAINS IN PLACES.
Local Drouths VIII Become More Serious
Calm Before the >torm-How to
study Astronomy and Plane
tary Meteorology.


| Special to the Gazette
/ ST. JOSEPH. No, Aug. l5-NIv last letter
| gave forecasts of the storm wave due 10
/ cross the continent from the 10Th To the
! 10Th. The next regular storm wave Will be
| due to leave the Pacific coast about the 22d
! cross the ROckyAllCgheuy valley from the
| 2:d to the 18th, and reach the Atlantic
| coast about the 10Th. This storm viii de-
! VelOp its greatest force on the western puI-
/ ton of The continent about the 22d. aud
| about that time the weather will become
| very hot IN the southern states. This hot
/ wave will affect the Eastern states about
| the 2:}d or 24th. \ storm wave may also be
! expected in the Mississippi valley about
| the Dist, but it will probably not be OF great
| force nor large dimensions. The hottest
! weather OF the summer viii occur about the
dates of these storm waves. ana the
weather will continue to average hot for
this unusually cool year until about Sep
temhcr H.. y few places will receive en-
cesslve ana concentrated rains from these
storm waves, but on the Whole the rainfall
| will be deficient and the local GroUths will
become more serious. There is but little
prospect OF rains in the local drOuth dis
tricts before september 3 to :. Compare
lively. the coming weather will he the calm
before the storm.
WEATHER AID SCIENCE NOTES.
Every person who cOntempatcs STUDYING
astronomy and planetary mctcroiogy the
coming fail and winter, should al once sub
scribe to either the daily or weekly issue
Of this paper clip the weather letters and
make OF them scrap book for reference. To
such subscribers | will begin to give special
instructions early in next month"; and will
furnish them with weekly weather map.
diagram showing the positions of the
moon and planets relative to the earth and
sun each week, Il chart illustrating the
nature and extent OF the planetary intiu-
ences on the weather anG lettc' of special
instruction. Terms viii be within the
reach OF ali. Anyone who can read aud
write may learn. For full particulars write
me.
am sorry to say that the daily weather
maps published by the national weather
bureau are not what they should he, ami
are really of less value than they were
Years ago. Il Is not only my right but my
duty 10 say TINS, for no man IN America has
so often ana 50 urgently advocated the SUD-
port of the weather bureau by national APP
preparations as have. have often called
attention to these daily maps advising
schools to obtain them and the public to
study those that are hung in the postoftices
of all the cities. but | can no longer recon-
mend these maps. To the casual observer
they are utterly unreliable. ana only 10 ex-
pertS in weather science are they of any
practical use This must not be construed
as cenSure of the new weather bureau
chief, for he has not had time TO determine
what changes should be made OF all the
daily weather maps published in the United
States, so far as ] have seen, the map pub
ished II Washington at the headquarters
OF the weather bureau, is the least and the
Denver map the most meritOrIous | have
good reasons for making these statements.
The Washington map no longer contains the
barOmetric readings of the signal stations,
but, instead, the isObaric lines are drawn
without the least regard to the well known
formation of storm centeTs. Where two
storm centers appear in North America the
lSObarS are often drawn from one TO the
other, instead of en"irrlng each. This OBJ
iterates the storm centerS from the maps
and makes them unintelligible and useless
to the public. The consequence is that not
one person i'll thousand who 90 to the |
pOstoffices ever care to look at these maps |
The Kansas City maps. in drawing these
isObars are also utterly unreliable, but the |
lsooar deficiency. while not remedied for |
the public, is partially remedied for the use |
of experts by giving the isobaric readings |
of each signal station: and therefore the |
Kansas City maps, while on d smaller scale. |
are superior TO the Washington maps and |
this Kansas City map IS fair sample |
of the maps published in several |
cities. The Denver map gives the |
readings of the barometer and has the $50 |
bars drawn so as to show each high and |
low barometer at glance and the condi- |
ton of the weather all over the country |
may be readily observed. But the Denver |
maps contain an error that Is fatal TO the |
usefulness and correctness of all the maps. |
d fundamental error of the professor of me-
eorology at Washington. The isobars are
drawn III circle, while if is impossible for
any isobar surrounding either a high or q !
low barometer, to form a circle. The uni
form motions OF these weather disturbers
the isobars surrounding them-must nee
essarily form fiat spirals instead of circles
These lsolars must conform TO the move
ments OF the wind nearing the center of the
low barometer as they circle from right 10
left around 1t and receding from the cen
ter OF the high barometer as they circle
around II III the opposite direction. ! have
repeatedly called attention Of the weather
bureau at Washington to these serious er-
rors, but instead of correcting them
the maps are continuously growing less
useful. The isobars and isotherms drawn
on this map are of special interest 10 the
public. because if properly drawn. a mo-
ment's observation of the map indicates TO
the casual observer the general condition
Of the weather and generally aids the
who have become accustomed to
the use OF barometers in calculating what
tomorrow will bring in the weather line
The errors | have pointed out make the
maps worse than useless to the public, for
10 the masses they convey no intelligence
he people become disguised with the great
expense and want TO withdraw the appO-
oriations. l make these criticisms with the
nope of doing good and not from any i'll
will toward the weather bureau, for its
officers have uniformly treated me with
much respect and hberality in furnishing
ne with all the publications of their de-
partments. / am still in favor of support
ng the national weather bureau by liberal
donations, but will insist on reforms.
W. 7. EHn