Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-16
A HOT WAVE.
The Hottest Weather of the
Summer Due in a Week.
EXCESSIVE RAINS IN PLACES.
Local DrouthsW VIII Become More Serious.
Calm Before the Storm-How to
Study Astronomy and Plane
tary Meteornlogy.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
ST. JOSEPH. Mo, Aug l5.-NIy last letter
| gave forecasts of tine storm wave due TO
! eros the continent from the 10Th 10 the
! 10th. The next regUilr storm wave will DO
| due 10 leave the Pacific coast about the pa,
! cross the Roclly-Alleghely valley from the
| '!!3d 10 the 25th, and reach the Atlantic
coast about the 10Th. This storm viii de-
/ velop its greatest force on the western por
! lion of the continent about the 22d, and
I about that time the weather viii become
/ very hot IN the southern states. This hot
! wave viii affect the Eastern states about
! the I'D or 2+th. y storm wave may also DC
expected in the Mississippi valley about
the 2lSt, but il will probably moi ne Of grea,
force nor large dimensions. The hottest
weather OF the summer will occur about the
dates OF these storm waves. aud The.
weather will continue 10 average hot for
this unusually cool wear until about Seq
TENDER II. \ few places viii receive rN-
cessive and concentrated rains from these
storm waves, but on the whole the rainfall.
| Will be deficient ana the local drouths viii
become more serious There is but little
prospect of rains in the loc;! drouth dis
trictS before September To : Compare
lively the coming weather will ne the calm
before the storm.
WEATHER AND SCIENCE NOTES.
Every person vino contemplateS studying
astronomy and planetary meterOlOgY the
coming fall and winter, should N once sui
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, aud will
furnish them with weekly weather map,
Il diagram showing the positions of the
moon and planets relative To the earth and
sun each week, chart illustrating the
nature and extent OF the planetary intiu-
ences on the weather and 4 letter of special
instruction. Terms will be within the
reach of all Anyone who can read aud
write may learn. For full particulars write
me.
] am sorry 10 say that the daily weather
maps published by the national weather
bureau are not what they should be- and
are really of less value than they were
years ago. Il IS not only my right but my
duty to say this, for no man in America has
so often and so urgently advocated the sup
port of the weather bureau by national ap-
preparations is 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 postoffices
of all the cities, but | can no longer recon-
mend these maps. To the casual observer
they are utterly unreliable, and only to eX-
pe$S IN weather science are they of any
Practical use. This must not be construed
as a 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
lished at Washington at the headquarters
of the weather bureau, is the least and the
Denver map the most meritorlous. | 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 centerS. Where two
storm centers appear in North America the
lSObarS are often drawn from one to the
other, instead of encirc1ng sach. 7 Is Vo-
literateS the storm centers from the maps
and makes them unintelligible and useless
to the public. The consequence is that not
one person in thousand who 90 to the
postoffices ever care to look al these maps
The Kansas City maps, in drawing these
isobars, are also utterly unreliable but the
lSobar 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 Il 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 iso-
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,
a fundamental error Of the professor of me-
eorology at Washington. The isobars are
drawn in a circle, while it is impossible for
any isObar surrounding either high or
low barometer to form d circle. The uni
bA~ III
the isobars surrounding them-must nee
eSSarlly form hat SplralS instead of circles.
These iSolarS must conform to the move
ments OF the wind nearing the center of the
Ow barometer as they circle from right TO
eft around 1t and receding from the CEN
ter of the high barometer as they circle
around it in the opposite direction. l have
called attention Of the weather
bureau at Washington to these serious en-
'ors, but instead of correcting them
he maps are continuously growing less
Useful. The isobars and isotherms drawn
IN this map are of special interest to the
public, because if properly drawn, a mo-
ment's observation of the map indicates to
he casual observer the general condition
If the weather and generally aids the
thousands who have become accustomed to
he use of barometerS in calculating what
.O-morrOw will bring in the weather line.
The errors ] have pointed out make the
maps worse than useless to the public, for
o the masses they convey no intelligence.
he people become Disguised with the great
expense and want 10 Withdraw the Apo
,riatiOns. | make these criticisms with the
lope OF doing good and not from any i'll
will toward the weather bureau, for its
ulcers have uniformly treated me with
much respect and iberality in furnishing
ne with all the publications of their de-
,artments. ! am still in favor of support
ng the national weather bureau Dy liberal
onations. out will insist on reforms.
". T. FOSTER