The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-04-26
MAY PoItMoAsrs.

Hicks Tells What Kind of Weather May
bo Expected.
Words and Works
Indications are that May will open
with cool, fair weather in most parts,
with frosts in northern directions. A
warm wave will pass eastward across
the country, giving rise to reactionary
storms, central on and next to the Sd.
After few days OF cooler, clear
weather, about the 9TH it will grow
warmer in tho west, and during the 9Th
to 18th the warmth will increase as it
advances eastward over the continent,
resulting in many storms about the Sth,
9th, 10th.
There is a marked tendency to frost,
as rule, from about the 10th to 10th OF
May, especially when storms occur on
or just preceding those dates, But the
indications for this month are that this
frost period will reach its crisis at the
close OF reactionary storms central
about the 18th. The new moon on that
day, and the equinox OF Mercury on the
10th, will increase and prolong storm
conditions, and add to the probabilities
OF frost after the storms in northerly
regions.
From theIlSth to 22d falls marked
storm period, the crisis OF which will
likely be reached about the god. A
very warm wave.will pass over the en-,
tire country during the period, and
dangerous storms arc liable to result.
Cloud formations and other storm indi.
cations should be prudently watched.
Easterly to southerly winds, sultry air,
with low and falling barometer are Ger.
tain harbingers OF coming disturbances,
After storms pass, il winds continue
from southorly points, or the barometer
sullenly refuses TO rise, look for rope.
tition OF rain, wind and thunder, in
cycles of twelve and twenty.tour hours,
until winds shift permanently to west.
erly, and the barometer moves decid-
edly upward. About the 25th and Goth
there will be another rise in tempera.
ture, resulting in reactionRry storms;
beginning, Of course, first in the west,
and appearing later at points
along their march to tho east. Fix this
fact well in your minds. You will soon
learn by the plain indications whom the
storms are liable to DO retarded, or to
appear early in the periods in your 10.
Cality.
The last day OF May is the center of q
regular storm period, which runs into
the opening days of June. Full moon
on tho Both will tend to hasten develop.
ments, so that very warm wave will
be well defined, and on its way from the
west, attended by increasing storms, by
the closing hours of the month. The
effects OF the Venus equinox will be felt
in all the storms up to tho middle OF
May, hence there will be marked
tendency to hard hailstorms, to ex.
cessive and sudden changes from very
warm to very cool, increasing the prob
ability OF frosts after storms in all north
erly regions. 1t will also be prudent to
anticipate tornudoes-to watch closely
all ominous storm clouds, and to have
your arrangements made, and your
minds clear as to what would be the
best thing for safety in moment OF
manifest danger. The electrical power
OF the sun is very great in all the CEN
trail parts OF our northern hemisphere
in the month OF May, and forces which
expend themselves in April showers
earlier, often gather in May into storms
OF great violence and wide extent. We
beg our readers to post themselves on
the important subject, and 10 rob the
storms OF their power to territy and do
stroy, by such knowledge and prepare
tion as will insure safety TO human life.