Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-07-08
lTHER FOR THE WEEK
FEssoR FOSTERS FORECAST
FOR SEVEN DAYS.
psher storm Wave Due About the
u TO the I5th--The Disturbances
Van Develop Considerable
" Force and Make Rain.

10 crCss the continent from July 10 ~
rd DC next will reach the Pacific coast
ktput the 18th. crossing the western
|pooli aims by close Of the 18th, the
<rf1t central valleys from 18th to 18th
ko1 Bic eastern stntes about the 10th.
Ihk disturbances viii develop CON
bIdet%ble force and will cause heavy
ratn b. spots. The center OF its path
Nlll Die through the northern tier Of
tater. It's greatest wind force not far
Tram the 10th parallel. while mild aims
|nny be expected in spots along the
kulf hnd South Atlantic coasts.
The disturbance will he a rainmaker
hind with the disturbance preceding 1t
will cause the principal rains Of the
uonth to fall or the Pacific coast from
I2thto 18th, in the great central val
Ieys From 18th TO 21st. and in The east
fern states from 10Th 10 25d. The last
part of July will be dry and the total
|ot thf month VIII pe below the average.
The warm waves will cross the west
|c-n mpluntlins about the llth and lfth,
the great central valleys about 18th and
|19th. and .he eastern states ABOUT loth
land llst The cool waves Will cross the
western mountains about the l4th anu
|oQtN. .ifhe great central NaiieSs upVuV
1f<h End 22nd. and the eastern stutes
about 18th and 2ith.
Ecuaers of these bulletins recognize
fl>at 1ny greatest success has been IN
|refercnce to dates and force OF storm
wavcs and that errors nave been prin-
cipnlly confined to rainfall and tenn
uernt,res, more particularly to ram
HALT. This is not only my experience.
hut also the experience of every other
mfteorologist
Praeticn weather forecasts are d.
vided into three departments; Force OF
,torue temperature and precipitation
frhe mat attracts most attention, Is the
|irast cihicult, while the last IL most
ridicuit and Of the greatest import
some time ago | announced that l
had made very important discoVeiles
as to temperature and rainiaii. any id
that by close application and the aid
" d cpmpe tent el sis tant | was WORKING
,ut dc dlnlcult problems. Come OF the
nrwepapers suggested a hope that II
might not require as long ms II mas
AIKEN Keeley IT, perfect his motor
! may say that the principal W ,Sas
VII b. completed by January, 1870
ma HAT we will then know more than
,as aver been known about the future
emperatures, including cold and warm
winters, wet and dry seasons
The work has progressed tar enough
.cv 10 the most important weather
VENT and while perfection may MOI
.e Expected, many serious errors VIII
N hereafter be avoided.
The weather bureau of the United
.itates has been publishing since 1875
1arv important weather records, made
" cornpetent private enterprise, and
Veael records furnish me the data of
:e11perature and precipitation which
am using to test my theories and by
hIch to eliminate the errors which
ave crept into my calculations.
Fer my present work / have taken
Sie Records Of a few places and cal
j hated the monthly eXceSseS or de-
ciencies In temperature and rainfall.
hen take my planetary periods and
5mpare them with these weather rec
rds These weather events were orig
Tally recorded two or three times
2ay but the weather bureau has pub
,-shed only the average of each cali
ear month, and therefore we have no
cord showing the excess or dehcien-
ules OF one part Of the month over
Any other, and this lessons the value OF
Ae weather records.
NJ When the cosmical laws were estab-
Shed calendar months We're not
nown, and therefore monthly wealth
b. Averages are out of Joint with ma
h1res laws.
"a Weather record OF less than forty
EARS continuous daily observation has
Rint little value in testing the influence
sun, moon and planets on our
Hneather changes. Prof Bigelow Of
sifn M tic nal weather bureau has the
j3rrect theory as to the cause of the
leather changes, declaring that these
l1dnHes come from electromagnetic
fnd That heat is only a result, not
lstuse. But he has taken weather
f1qrd of twelve years and mag
'ttic record of eleven years by which
p, test his theory. ! regard such
|trort record as utterly unreliable.
rforl my present work l have taken
re VI ather records of the follow.
Mg named. places; Muscatine, Iowa, &C
Bears; Miami, Mo-, As years; ST. Louis
d 90. IS years; Peoria. Ill, 40 years
crt WILSON, Indian Territory. IS years
2rtsmouth Ohio, SIS years; Cincinnati
rio. bO years; Fortress Monroe, So
O Tara: Charleston, s. c., So years;
iaehington. II years; Amherst Mass
"a years; New Bedford, Mass, SO years /.
vhtludelphia 20 years; Newark, N. j.
> ycars. -"
~ There is firm conviction among the
pr uiputural classes that the weather
PeuW itself In periods OF six, eight.
rfc1}e and seventeen years, and n
4. Weteorologists, notably Prof. Ven
-s 1HNe attracted considerable notice
~ ~ making forecasts based on these
rrurrlng periods. My recent investi.
a f,ion1 nave led to a verihcation OF tho
Xk1<<I-.'' y 30 Suti petlOdS 10 exist. and
I, Eiscoyery of their causes
Tho reason why the theory hrot.
siWn under Vennor and others is tbat
1'1e OF these causes may destroy the
Elects OF another and II is only by
, r1dtnR the effect which the moon and
,sseanets In certain positions have sep
e Ately on the weather and then plac-
these effects together that we can
!, ttrive4at the final result.
As sample of eight year period I
~ take July at Muscatlne. Iowa. for
4. 4 years 1916. 81. g. 70. rs and 1850
!, tese were all drouth months with
~ en- exception and the average de-
a irncy Of rainfall was I.9G inches.
D ,urIU these averaged 2.72 Inches de-
lin For the same place, month and years
af<f cxcess of temperature averaged
: q degrees daily and four OF these
y7nths averaged an excess OF 80 de-
y yea daily.
aa>ciS Of 1876 We have no data while
= next data is July OF this year
~ --orffQre / conclude that AIiscatine
J,.FU md the country within 100 miles
W Y. Nvill experience drouth this
X <,u!H fnd an excess OF temperature
~ },iit urouth that occurs in the VI
irs1'tI.pf Muscatine is caused by one
rtnft (which, by establishing a high
q Ir.UFter south and a low Northwest