Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-06
A YEAR OF STORMS.
Weather Sharp Fosters Discouraging Pre-.
dictlon and His Reasons Therefor.

weather snarp rosters Encouraging Pre-
diction and His Reasons Therefor
From the Dallas News
Beginning with the first week in Nav Of this
year and ending with the last week in June.
1882, will constitute the greatest storm period
since 1928 and it will be at its greatest force
during the coming winter. The winter will
set in early and with its unusual cold and
great snow storms and billiards will be what
is termed a very hard winter. These winter
storms will begin in the northern tier of states
with great severity in October and an early
winter, very severe all over the continent. will
follow. The force Of the storms will increase
very gradually. and the May storms will not be
so marked as those later On. We will probably
have an occasional tornado, but destructive
storms will not attract general attention till
after June 8. when the great battle Of the ele-
ments will begin in earnest, and every month
will begin its noted storms.
June Is not always a month of great storms
but II will be this year, and should nv predic-
tons be verified as to that month the public
Will give more attention to what have said as
to the eleven months tina: follow it, October
and November are the months that usually
bring the tropical hurricanes that are some
times very disastrous on the Gulf of Mexico
and occasionally do damage as far north "a
that visited the lower Mississippi and the
coast of the Gulf of Mexico in 1928 will be
repeated next October and November.
Wherever you find an old man who followed
fiat boating on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers
in 1928 you viii find an oracle who can re-
veal much history about the hurricanes of the
lower Mississippi river at that time. Portions
of Florida were greatly damaged by the hurri-
canes sixty years ago.
do not desire TO create any unnecessary
sensation about this very great storm period
but no harm can come by being prepared for
the very severe winter 1nd the great storms
Hundreds Of thousand Of people who read NV
weather forecasts every week will have great
faith in the predictions made in this letter for
they know that am very careful and seldom
mislead them. The forecasts are not based on
any superstition or secret. but on what know
to be. and on what any person may know to be,
real physical causes.
The causes of this period Of great disturb
ances will be the equinox of Saturn in October
and the equinox Of Jupiter next January
Jupiters equinox occurred in August and
Saturn's in October, 1892. and hence the great
storms of that and the year following The
equinoxes Of these planets cause great electric
disturbances in our solar system Just as do the
equinoxes Of our earth in March and Septem-
Der, but on a larger scale. Electricity is the
force that causes all storms, and the sun and
all the planets throw an electric force far into
space over their equafors, as does the electro
dynamo, and consequently when any planet
passes its equinoctial the electric tension of
the sun and of that planet are disturbed and
simultaneously the electric force of every
planet in the solar system is unbalanced
which affects the electric currents Of the earth.