Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-07-13
WEATHER BULLETIN.
Forecasts of Coming Storms. Drouths
 and Hurricanes.

Copyrighted, 1895, by w. T. Foster.
 ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, July 6-My last
 bulletin gave forecasts of the storm wave
 to cross the continent from July 9th to
 10th and 18th to 18th.
 The next weather disturbance will
 reach the Pacific coast about July 17th,
 cross the west of Rockies country by close of 18th, the great central valleys
 18th to 2lst and eastern states 22d. General rains will not occur with this
 disturbance and heavy rains will fall only in few places of small extent.
 The.rain period of the month will have
 passed before the dates of this storm
 wave and with it will come in the drouth
 period of the month.
 I do not mean to say that general drouth will occur. only that the last half of July, for the United States, will
 produce less rain than the first half of the month. The drouth sections for July were noted in my last bulletin which l regarded as the most important weather bulletin have issued.
 This storm wave will also bring some of the hottest days of the month, very hot in the Atlantic states.
 The warm wave will cross the west of Rockies country about l7th, great cen- tral valleys 18th and eastern states Fist, Ceol wave will cross the west of Rockies country about 10th. great central vsl> leys 22d and eastern states 24th.
 Storm waves and other weather changes are less regular in June than in any other month. Often the periodic weather changes are, almost entirely broken up, frequent showers and tenn perature changes occur and weather forecasts are not usually we'll verified.
 July restores the regular storm periods aud forecasts are we'll verified except when tropical hurricane moves north eastward along the Atlantic coast. These hurricanes materially interfere with the weather changes that regularly cross the continent from the Pacific coast and sometimes these weather periods con- tinue broken for ten days.
 From two to five tropical hurricanes may usually be expected on our Atlan- tic coast within the four months, July to October and while they are passing the weather conditions will be very un- certain in the Mississippi valley.
 Long range forecasts for April, May and June have been remarkably we'll verified and this feature of these weather bulletins is attracting general attention of dealers in farm products.
 Fall sowing of winter grains will begin n September and these bulletins will advise as to the kind of grain that should be sown for the crops of 1896.
 This advice will be based on the weather, believing that the notable changes in our crop products my be, to 6 large extent, foreknown.
 It is we'll known that certain kinds of small grain, particularly wheat and bar ley, yield large returns for several years then fail for about as many years and again return to large yields for mother period of years. yields are certainly caused by changes of the rainy and drouth periods which | during a series of years come in the spring months, then for another series in the summer months and so on till they have returned to that part of the 1 year in which they cause abundant yields again.
 1 do not mean to say that these changes are in rotation for this IS not | the case If they came in rotation the | farmers would; have discovered their | peri ds long ago and protited by the | knowledge.
 profess to have discovered the plane tary influences on our weather that | bring the changes in time of these seasonal drouths and floods.
 The rules are not yet fully worked out but sufficiently so to insure correct fore casts three times out of four and there fore those who follow these bulletins will come out on the winning side.
 Othodox scientists say that I should pot make these forecasts till my calcu- Iations are completed but for various reasons 1 csunot follow their advice.
 Although errors must necessarily occur in my forecasts the final result must be on the side of gain to those who follow them and therefore I am justified n publishing them.
 Then l must live by the products of my work while l am completing the and were it not for the sup. port l received from the press my work in this line would be cut of.
 Another difficulty lies across the way 1f giving advice as to the future crops. The same weather will not produce the same crops ID the various soils and it is not possible for one person to know the klnds of soils in every locality of the United States and in many cases it would be better for farmers to cores pond with me, always incloing a stamp.
 To further elucidate the point dis ,ussed above the reader is reminded hat the annual drouth in the northern parts of the great central valley oc- 'ured principally in the fall from 1890 o 1894, that this annual drouth changed O April and May in 1895 and particu- arly that I gave fair and timely notice # this change.
 In sections of the country where 8 bring drouth seriously injurss wheat md oats it has not paid farmers to SOW hese grains for the 1895 crop.
 l am confident that can give, maybe 'ot exactly but practically, the time ghen and where the principal rams and lrouths will occur in 1896 or any future ear and l believe that when my system s perfected 90 per cent of such forecasts 1ill prove correct.
 A blnnder occurred in my monthly harte for June. The ''long range" harts and the weekly bulletin for June weather were all right but the monthly harts did not agree with the former nd the latter were wrong, made go by @ 'ad mistake.