The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-25
MERCURY cLINB1No Up.
Pretty High Temperatures eported
sauAli Over the South

Fret|y- high Temperatures eported
ssuAli over the South.
Yesterday was geaerally hot day
throughout the south. 10 the interior the
temperatare was very high, considerably
above the normal, bat along the coast il
was much cooler aud the temperature was
slightly below the normal
The Savannah district Of the signal serv-
Ice, outside OF Savannah, was a pretty hot
section Of country. Americus reported a
maximum temperature OF 1922, Albany,
Cordele and Eastman &C.. Balm
bridge. Fl. Gaines, Miilen, Quit
man aud ThomasvilIe 81, and
Gainesville, Fla, SIS. Savannah's maxi
mum temperature was SO, the minimum
% and the mean was 80 below the normal,
The average maximum temperature for the
Savannah district was 93S. The day was
the hottest Of the season SO far.
The heat was not confined to the Savan-
nah district, however. The Augusta dis
trict reported 900 and the Atlanta SSs
average maximum temperature. The Mont
gomery district reported go and Mobile 90,
Showers are predicted for to-day, with
stationary temperature.
A Texas weather prophet predicts that
the year beginning with May this year
wiz be the greatest storm year since the
thirties. Destructive storms will begin TO
great battle af the elements will begin In
earnest, and every month will begin its
not I'd storms.
The new prophet says 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 I have said as to the
eleevn months that 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
ana occasionally do damage as far north
as Tennessee and Arkansas. The great hurris
canes that visited the lower Mississipoi
and the coast Of the Gulf of Mexico in
l6S2>S will be repeated next October and
November. Wherever you find an old
man who followed fiat-boatingpn the Ohio
and Mississippi rivers in 1928, you will
ind an oracle who can reveal much history
about the hurricanes OF the lower Missis-
slppi river at that time. Portions OF Florida
were greatly damaged by the hurricanes
sixty years ago.
Il do not desire to create any unnecessary
sensation about this very great storm
period, but no harm can come by being pre-
pared for the very severe winter aud the
great storms. Hundreds of thousands of
people who read my 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 SUPER
stition or secret. but on what know to be,
and on what any person may know to be,
real physical causes.
The cause of this period OF great dis
turbance will be the equinox of Saturn in
October and the equinox of Jupiter next
January. Jupiter's equinox occurred in
August and Saturn's in October, 1882, and
hence the great storm 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 September, but on
large 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 equators, 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 sy stem is
unbalanced, which affects the electric cur
rents OF the earth"