The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-08-12
August Forecasts.

Word and Works: On the End and 3rd OF
August Will center a re~actionary wave or
great warmth, resulting in severe storms
within the period embraced between the End
and night CT the 4th. At this time we will DC
nearing the center of the Venus equinox,
and the phenomena will tax Oh the charac-
teristics SO often defined us resulting from:
that disturber. Excessive heat is apt to end
in lightning, thunder hail and wind and ~
sudden change to abnormally cool on the
very heels of great heat. The storm period,
Sth to 18th, promises tn" most active and
dangerous storms of the month";, having a.
the disturbing causes .'Vulcan'' central on
the sth, Venus central on the 9th, New Moon
on the 18th, and Mercury central on the 18th.
There is reason to apprehend violence iii the
elements between the Sth and 18th. The heat
will become intense before the storms ap-
pear, the barometer will be depressed gener-
ally, reaching phenomenal "lows'' at some
points, and cloud formations will be black
and ominous. Heavy hail. thunder and wilma
may be expected. and "cloudbursts' are sure
to result here and there.
There will be sudden revulsions from great
heat to very cool, with probabilities O: tenn
perature falling almost or quite to the frost
llIlt III " IiS SoJ ~ III w
18th. About the 18th, reactlonary temperat-
urc with southerIy winds will most likely
result in another spell of storminess. and be
followed by another northwestcrly inrusl,
Of cocl air.
From the 18th to END. falls another period
OF heat and storms. We name the 10Th, Goth
and 2lst as days on which the chief disturb
ances will be at their crisis. The moons first
qnar,er on the morning of the 10Th, IN con-
~nection with the prevailing Venus electric
strain, is very apt to produce gales and thuu-
der squalls within "a hours of + p. m. on that
date. Another series of disturbances for we
or three Gays will be natural during this per-
iod, but the barometer. wind currents and
will plainly announce when the
storm elements have been reduced to the nor
wind coming cool and steadily
from the west and nOrth-the
moving upward, and the temperature fall
ing. After these disturbances there will be
a close approach to the frost line In The
north. Pleasant days and very cool nights
will follow up to reactionary changes and
storms on and touching the 2eth and 9th.
The full moon on the 9th will tend to cent
ralize the disturbances on and around that
date, and will help to precipitate any tend
ency to seismic throes that may exist, such
being more than probable at the time, if
storms should not have been fire.
hard during the month. August
ends with the first stages of a storm period
coming into action-that is, barometer will
be falling in the west, with temperature ris-
ing in advance of it, fed by the southerly air
that transport moisture, heat and
electric force. from the equatorial regions.
August storms in most parts of the northern
hemisphere, will devolve and move from
the northwest, the first marked indication
of their coming being generally q dark or
ieaden bank .,cross the northwest at sunset.
There is cause for this. 1t is. the return OF
our globe toward the Autumnal equinox,
and an effort of nature to let in through our
polar gates cooler ozone and atmosphere
from outer space.