Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-10
STORM PERIOD.
The Coolest Weather Of the
Month Still to Come.
THE STORM WAVE EXPLAINED.
Next Winter to be a Hard One-!An Early
Winter, Very Severe All Over the
Country Gulf Hurricanes.
Cause of the Disasters.
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ST JOSEPH, Mo, MAY "a storm wave
OF only ordinary force will be due 10 leave
the Pacific coast about MAY H. cross the
Rocky Allegheny valley from 10th to 18th
and reach the Atlantic coast about the 18th.
The low barometer Of this storm wave will
pass across the continent south Of the 10th
degree of north latitude and the cool waive
and frosts following it VIII reach further
south than is usual for the time OF year.
| The storm viii become quite severe ON the
Atlantic coast about the 18TH and following
1t will occur the coolest weather of the
month. My last letter gave particulars Of
the storm wave due to cross the continent
from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts from
the 9th to 18th.
These forecasts give the key to the
weather that will occur at any place on
this continent within the dates mentioned
but to appreciate the accuracy and benefits
Of the forecasts the reader must bear in
mind the nature of storm waves and how
| they OBJECT the weather within and all
around them. The storm wave consists of
| two parts, high ana low barometer. that
| always move together across the continent
| and, in this latitude, around the earth.
| The low barometer is called the storm CEN
| ter and is from 500 TO 5000 miles in diam
| eter. and within these storm centers the
| wind blows III circle contrary TO the
| movements of the hands Of Il watch when
! placed with face up, while outside OF the
low barometer the wind blows toward the
center of its right hand quarter as you face
II. About one-thiru. the outer edge. of
this low barometer consists of very clea.
weather and the blllist OF skies and this
must always be received as a part OF the
storm wave, as it is sure indication that
Inc. ST mot flf.1 App lnaR hirl
inside OF this clear belt, is occupied by
cloud belt, III which the rain and
! snow occurs, and the clouds move
with the wind around the center Of the low
barometer. The center of the low barom-
eter has but little cloud, not much wind
and the weather warm and Sultry. II the
reader will keep this whirling storm center
in mind and note my forecasts the future
of the weather may he known nine
times OUT Of ten. The high
barometer follows the storm center and
brings clearing, cooler weather and these
high and low barometers follow each other
around the earth from west 10 east and
cause all changes in the weather South
of 80 deg. north latitude the movements of
these barometers are different and consti-
tute the tropical hurricanes.
GREAT STORM PERIOD.
Beginning with the first week in May of
this year and ending with the last week in
storm period since 1925, and il will be at
its greatest force during the coming win
ter. The winter will set in early and with
its unusual cold and great snow storms and
billiards will be what is termed q very
hard winter. These winter storms will be-
gin in the northern tier of states with great
severity in October. and an early winter,
very severe all over the continent, will fol
low. The force Of the storms viii 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 gen
eral attention till after June 8. when the
great battle of the clements viii begin in
earnest, and every month Will bring its
noted storms. June is not always month
OF great storms, but it will be this wear
and should my predictions be verified as to
that month the public will give more at
tention to what | haYc said as TO the
eleven 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 Mex
leo and occasionally do damage as far north
as Tennessee and Arkansas. The great
hurricanes that visited the lower Aiissis-
sippi and the coast of the Gulf of Mexico
in 1923 will pc repeated next October and
November. Wherever YOU find an old man
who followed hatboating on the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers in 1873 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 the hurricanes
sixty years ago.
l do not desire to create any unnecessary
sensation about this very great storm
period. but no harm can come by being pre-
pared for this very severe winter and the
great storms it will bring Hundreds of
thousands OF people who read my weather
.sI
IL the predictions made in this letter for
they know that am very careful and sell
dom mislead them. The forecasts are not
based on any superstition or secret, but on
what know TO be. and what any person
may know 10 be- real physical causes.
The causes of this period of great dis
turbances viii be the equinox OF Saturn in
October and the equinox OF Jupiter next
January. Jupiter's equinox occurred in
August and SatuTn's in October, 1892. and
hence the great storms Of that and the fol-
lowing year. The equiuoxes of these planets
cause great electric DISTURBANCES in our solar
system just as do the equincNes OF our earth
in March and September. but On 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 equators as do the electro-dy namos,
and consequently when any planet passes
its equinoctial the electric tensions 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.
In my regular weekly letters 1 will give
details of each storm wave that crosses the
continent from a week to ten days in ad-
vance and indicate when the most severe of
these disturbances will occur l have no
secrets as 10 my meteorological theories.
but give full explanations Of what regard
as the cause of every storm wave. The
weather bureau publishes a daily weather
map which IS great aid in studying the
past Of the weather. W T Foster.