Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-21
roREcAsTs or THE WEATHER.

w. r. Foster OF st. Joe, Missouri, has
shown himself TO be quite reliable
weather prophet, and the following fore
casts Of the weather for the coming sea-
son will be read with considerable inter
est and profit:
Beginning with the first week. IA May
OF this year and ending with the last
week in June, 1892, will constitute the
greatest storm period since 1913 and it
will be ct it's greatest force during the
coming winter. The winter viii set in
early and with it's usual cold and great
snow storms and blixzards, will be what
is termed very hard winter. These
winter storms win begin in the northern
tier of states with great severity in Oc-
tober and an early winter, very severe
all over the continent will follow. The
force OF the storm win increase very
gradually and the May storms will NOT
be 90 marked as those later on. We
will probably have an occasional tornado,
but destructive storms will not attract
general attention until after June 8,
when the great battle OF the elements
will commence in earnest, and every
month will bring it's noted storms. june
is not always month OF great storms,
but it will be this year, and, should my
predictions be verified as TO that month
The public will give more attention to
what have said as TO the eleven months
that follow it. October and November
are the months that usually bring the
tropical hurricanes that are sometimes
very disastrous on the Gulf OF Mexico
and occasionally do damage as far north
as tennessee and Arkansas. The great
hurricanes that visited Mississippi and
the coast of the Gulf of Mexico 10 1892 8
will be repeated next October and No
vember. Wherever you find an old man
who followed fat boating ON the Ohio
and Mississippi rivers In 1898 you
will find an oracle who can reveal much
history about the hurricanes of the lower
Mississippi river at that time. Portions
of Florida were greatly damaged by
hurricanes sixty years ago.
do not desire to create any unneces-
sary sensation about this very great
storm period, but no harm can come by
being prepared for the very severe winter
and the great storms. Hundreds OF
thousands of people who read my
weather forecasts every week will have
great faith in my predictions made in
this letter for they know that 7 am very
careful and seldom mislead them. The
forecasts are not based ON any supersti-
ton or secret, but on what 1 know to be
and what any person can know to be
real physical causes.
The causes OF this period of great dis
turbances will be the equinox OF Saturn
in October, and the equinox of Jupiter
next January. Jupiter's equinox oc.
Cured in August and Saturn's in Octo
Der, 1882, and hence the great storms o.
that and the year following. The equi
nox of these planets cause great electri.
disturbances in our solar system, just as
do the equinoxes of our earth in Marcel
and September, but on a larger scale
Electricity is the force that causes al
storms, and the sun and all the planets
throw an electric force far into space
over their equators, as does the electro
dynamo, and consequently when any
planet passes its equinoctial, the electric
tensions of the sun and of that planet arr
disturbed and simultaneously the electric
force of every planet is unbalanced which
effects the electric currents of the earth
In my regular weekly letters I viii
give details of each storm wave thai
crosses the continent, from week to ten
days in advance, and indicate when the
most severe of the disturbances viii
occur. I have no secrets as to my me
neurological themes, but explain what
regard as the cause of every storm wave
The weather bureau issues daily maps
that greatly aid in studying the past o
the weather.