Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-28
FOSTERS FORECAST.
The Next Storm to Leave the
Pacific Coast July 6.
is OFTEN misunderstood.
Storms for June to Be Duplicated for the
Next Twelve Months, But Will Be
of Much Greater FOrce-The
Use of Plain Terms.
Special to the Gazette

Special to the Gazette
ST. JOSEPH. Mo-, June 27.-My last
letter gave forecasts of the storm wave due
to cross the continent from June 30 to July
4, and the next will be due to leave the Pa
cific coast about July 6, cross the Rocky
Allegheny valley from the 7rh to 9th, and
reach the Atlantic coast about the 10th.
The center of this disturbance will enter
the PaciticcoaSt about the north line of
California, reaching the 10th deg. of north
latitude in the middle of the continent and
pass into the Atlantic about the latitude of
Maine. While it will be well-developed
storm center on the continent, it will not
reach its greatest force until about the 10th
or 18th, when on the northeastern Atlantic
coast. Preceding and southeast of the
storm center the weather will be quite
warm, and following it cold for the time OF
year. The general average of the weather
will be much cooler than usual. The rain
fall will not be general from this storm
wave, but will be noted more for excessive
rains in small area, doing some damage In
places by too sudden rainfalls. while drying
winds will injure other localities.
WEATHER AND SCIENCE NOTES.
Although I try to use the plainest of lang
uage. and to convey my ideas by explicit
terms. yet I am often misunderstood. 1
sometimes use a term like st. Louis meri-
dian, meaning, of course, a line drawn from
north to south across the continent through
that city, but my readers often take this to
mean that the storm will strike that city.
No fair construction of language can give
any such construction to the term which Is
used only to indicate the progress of the
storm-wave eastward. / usually designate
whether the storm center will take north
ern. southern or middle route, but readers
should not forget that meridian extends
entirely across the United States, north and
south.
o1c n1nr.c nd
word tstorm." A storm is any kind of
weather disturbance in which may occur
rain, hail, snow. wind or electric displays.
A storm is not necessarily destructive. 1t
may be an ordinary rain storm, hail storm,
wind storm, electric storm, snow storm or
thunder storm. When 1 predict any kind
of destructive storm it will be i'll such
language as will not oe misunderstood.
BY .'storm wave'' is meant that general
weather disturbance that regularly crosses
the continent from west to east,
the effects of which are in sue
cession the clearest weather of the
period, followed by "a change OF wind to
some eastern point of the compass; then
warmer weather, followed by the cloud
belt with precipitation, not necessarily gen.
eral but in spots throughout the storm
center; then change of wind to some
western point, bringing cooler and clearer
weather 1t takes all these changes of
weather 10 constitute WHAT ucrIu JHe SlorH
wave.
l often use another term, 'sthe storm
center" This has reference TO the low
barometer of the storm wave. 1t is the key
to all weather changes and requires from
one to two days to pass any given point, and
about five days to cross the continent from
the Pacific to the Atlantic coast. At all
points north of this storm center the
weather will be cool and at all points south
it will be warm.
My efforts are to give the dates on which
these storm waves and storm centers will
pass certain meridians or portions of the
country, whether they will take northern,
southern or middle routes, and more es-
pecially whether they will be of great or
moderate force. Another important and
usually successful effort is to indicate the
periods of heavy rains, such as occurred
during the first ten days of June. will
give the next heavy rain period in my next
letter.
Readers of these forecasts should par
ticularly note the storms of June, for those
to follow for the next twelve months will
be Of like but very much greater force.
w. T. FOSTER.