Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-05-25
WEATHER BULLETIN.
Fosters Weather Forecasts the Com
 ing of the Storm King.

COPYRIGHTED, 1895, BY W. T. FOSTER.
 ST. JoNEPH Mo-, May 11-My last bull
 letin gave forecasts of the storm wave to
 cross the continent from 18th to 18th
 and the next will reach the Pacific
 co st about 20th, cross the west of
 Rockies country by close of 2lst, great
 central valleys 23d to 24th and the east
 ern states 25th.
 This disturbance will seem to promise
 rain but will generally bring dissapoint-
 ment and will make the drouth more
 severe except in few localities. |, Warm wsve will cross the west of
 Rockies country about 10th, the great
 central valleys 22d and eastern states
 24th. Ccol wave will cross west of
 Rockies country about 23d, great cen-
 tral valleys 25th and eastern states 27th. ERR AND FLOW OF SPRINGS.
 Most people have noticed that before storm springs often overflow to a greater extent than usual. Lakes also ebb and flow like the ocean but not at the same tune, not from the same cause.
 The great salt springs in Saline county, Missouri the bottoms of which have never been found, ebb and flow lrregularly, sometimes discherging larg- CT volumes than at other times.
 Although these springs are very salt no one suspects that they are connected with the ocean and none would claim that the ocean tides or wet and dry weather would have anything to do with the rise and fall of their waters.
 In large portions of Texas the rise and fall of the waters are peculiar. H. o. Smith says: "We are 1000 feet above Galveston, and drill through limestone | from 100 to. 200 feet thick where we reach water that rises within five to | eight feet of the surface Some wells | overflow
 We are now having hot winds from the north and my wells have fallen thirty feet in ten hours. Cool winds from the same direction do not affect our wells and winds from the south bring the Water to normal height in ten hours."
 The fountains that feed the springs and wells must be higher than the later and therefore the ocean waters cannot affect them. But what is the cause of these ebbs and flows of lakes, springs and artesian wells?
 The high and low barometers are the causes. The atmosphere in the high weighs more tEsn it does in the lows and the former depresses while the latter lifts the water.
 When the low barometer IS approach ng. its center, far away, covers the akes and other waters that constitute he fountains from which the springs md artesian wells are fed.
 When tEe low barometer IS over these akes and other fountains their waters 'ise because the pressure is less and his affects far away springs and arte- nan wells causing them to fall.
 When a low barometer covers the Upper MississippI valley and the great akes Texas has Warm north winds. At I he same time the Ohio valley will have warm south winds. The waters in Lake superior will rise and in the springs and ttesian wells of Texas, lower Missis- ippi and Ohio valleys will fall. As this general low barometer passes ! the high barometer takes it's | 'lace over the great lakes, the winds iD I Texas continue from nerthward but hange to cool and the waters in the brings and artesian wells begin to rise ecause the air pressure of the country z rom whence come the artesian and bring water increases by seventy ounds or more to the square foot of urface. I In the Ohio valley and eastern states ' he wind changes from south to north, he weather cools and the spring and ! rtesian waters come back to their l ormals. Generally on the approach of my 4 5orm wave dates the waters of lakes, | brings and artesian wells will be de- reesed and as the cool wave dates | ome in these waters will rise again to 4 5eir pOrmRls