Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-10
FOSTERS WEATHER.
The Next Storm Wave viii be
Here on the 9th.
A COOL WAVE TO FOLLOW 1T
VIII be Here on the 10th-Something More
About Drouths and How They
VIII Affect the Coming
Crop Season
Copyrighted, 1882, by ". T roster.

Copyrighted, 1899, by W. Foster.l
Special to the Gazette.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, March 4 My last letter
gave forecasts of the storm wave due to
cross the continent from February % to
March 4, and the next will be due to reach
the Pacific coast March 3, cross the
Western mountains by close of 9th, the
great central valleys from 18th to 9th, and
the Eastern states about the 10th.
The disturbing causes are so great that
the weather will be very changeable and
the regular movements of the storm centers
will not be so easily distinguished. The
storm waves will probably break up into
smaller disturbances tending toward lorna
does, water spouts, hail storms and ether
small, fierce disturbances.
The cool wave following this disturbance
will cross the Western mountains about the
Sth, the central valleys about the 10Th and
the Eastern states about the 18th.
This disturbance may produce severe
storms, but there is q much greater prob
ability that tornadoes will occur not far
from March IA. This third storm wave of
the month will be due to reach the Pacific
coast about March II. cross the Western
mountains by the close of the 18th, the
great central valleys from the 18th to 18th
and the Eastern states about the 10th
This storm will be at its greatest force
from 18th tol5th while in the Mississippi val
ley, with great probabilities of tornadoes
These dreadful storms, however, cannot
be located with our present knowledge Of
the weather, but there are many reasons
for expecting these twisters in various
parts of the United States during the next
four months.
The cool wave will follow this last men
toned storm center. crossing the Western
mountains about the 14th, the central val
leys about the 10th and the Eastern states
about the 18th.
will regard it as favor if the reader
will send me clippings from newspapers in
reference to any unusual weather event
that may occur for the next six months 1
regard it as one of the most interesting
weather periods-March to June, inclusive
that will have occurred within genera
ton past.
MORE ABOUT DRoUrHs.
The drouths of the coming crop season
will be so irregular that will NOS under
take to give any detailed forecasts in this
letter 1t will be cut up into spots. depend
ing on the latitude and the topography of the
country, and l can only give my estimates
of its effects in reply to private letters.
In some parts of the country there will
be an almost total failure of CROPS, while in
many other parts will be produced the
finest crops that have been made Tor wears.
and the prospects are for good prices on all
farm products. But II has immense forests,
and these overcome all obstacles. and the
Congo country has a great rainfall. while
Lower Egypt, although otherwise sur
rounded by much more favorable circum-
stances, is deficient in forestry and conse-
quently deficient in rainfall.
However, the rainfall in Lower Egypt
has improved. Sixty-five years ago, the
deserts had encroached on the Nile delta
and bottom lands, till it became apparent