The Red Cloud chief., 1895-04-05
Weather Bulletin.
copyrighted. 1895, by W T. Foster.l

copyrighted. 1895, by W T. Foster.l
ST.. JosEru, Mo, April 5-My
last bulletin gave forecasts of the
storm wave to cross the continent
from Apr s to . and II to 10 The next
will reach the Pacific coast about the
18th, cross the western mountain
country bv close of 10th, the great
central valleys from the 18th to 18th
and the eastern states about the Goth.
The warm wave will cross the west
ern mountain country about 18th, the
great central valleys 18th, and the
eastern states l2th. Cool wave will
cross western mountain country about
18th. the great central valleys 10th
and eastern states I'D.
Readers will p'casc note the fore
casts are made for 8 p. m. of the
dates mentioned, and the weather
events predicted must occur within
twehty-iour hours before or after that
hour; otherwise the forecasts fail.
The change is made from sunset in
order To agree in time with the wealth
er maps published each day at s p. IN.
by the national weather bureau at
Washington. These daily maps give
us the best record of the actual state
OF the weather in all parts Of the
United States and southern Canada at
that hour, Washington time.
uAZgS AND BIGELOw.
These are assistant professors in the
forecast'ng department of the nation.
weather bureau at Washington. They
are un' versal scholars and IF eminent
abil ty. OF more importance than
these, however, is the fact that they
represent two widely differing theories
rs to the proper basis for weather
forecasting aud they are now engaged
In a fight to tie finish as to which will
win the %lurcls.
do not mean to say that they are
openly fighting each other, but that
each is pushing to the front his ow n
Rpruliur yiau. a ~ ,,,,, % ,al..
changes, aud as both cannot be right
Ooe must fail.
We Are on the eve Of important
events in mc,eorology aod the public
Is enormously interested, therefore
the battle of the giants Should attract
general attention.
1t is claimed that Ii per cent mo re
OF manufactured articles are used m
cold than in warm winters. On the
one len OF coal about thlrty.three
millions OF dollars are saved by a warm
winter.
Without reliable long range fore
casts manufacturers cannot rightly
gauge their outputs, and therefore
hundreds o! millions of dollars can
be saved by knowing when to expect
cold aud WARN winters. This is in
reference to only one item of the
weather and therefore there is no sub
ject of such vast Importance to all
mankind as that of a correct basis for
long range weather forecasts.
Prof. Bige!ow holds that there is
Az days weather period; that this
period is divided up into ten minor
and two major periods. lie stat es
that the records of the magnetic need.
le conclusively prove that such per
iods occur in the waves of magnetism
that affect the earth and that these
waves are felt on every part of tn,
earth's surface at the same instant,
lie claims that the weather event,
for North America occur in western
Canada at exactly the same time wher
the magnetic events occur Throughout
the earth. and that these events ther
drift eastward across the continent il
about four days.
In the American Meteorologica
Journal for March, Prof. Hazen de
clares there are no such weather per
iOds ind thus the issue is joined.
At this time l cannot determin,
which is right but l must notice Prof
Hazen's method OF d~isproving Prof
bigelow's claims.