Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-04-05
WEATHER BULLETIN.
STORM FonnoAsrs As GIVEN NY
w. II FOSTER.
The Latter Part of April VIM he the
Warm and Dry Fart OF
he Month.


copyrighted. 1896, by w. T. Foster.)
st. Joseph, MO-, april Any last bull
letin gave forecasts OF the storm waves
TO cross the continent from April 4, to
s and 10 to IA The next win reach the
Paoiflc coast about 18th. cross the west
OF Rockies country BY close OF 10th.
great central valleys nth to 18th. Eas-
tern states goth.
This disturbance will inaugurate the
warm and dry part OF the month. frosts
and cool waves will be of less force
than usual and stormy, March-lilte
weather will DO a feature OF the week.
The temperature will average above
normal for the last half OF the month
Warm wave Will cross the west Of
Rockies country about 18th, great CEN
trail valleys 18th, Eastern states 10th.
Cool wave win cross the west of Rock
les country about 18th. great central
valleys goth. Eastern states ed
"There has been a great revulsion In
modern times and scientists are begin
ming to feel that we really know less
today regarding atmospheric move
ments than we thought we knew ten
years ago
The above is quoted from recen,
publication by Professor Hazen OF tht
national weather bureau and is remark
able In that II gives evidence OF prog.
resB even among those scientists who
have long been in the rut.
10 discover our own errors is one OF
the most difficult tasks with which we
have to deal, and the above quotation
brings a ray OF hope that even the or
thodox are not entirely lost to the
truths newly coming TO light.
Continuing Professor Hazen says:
1--WE do not know to-day the first step
in rain formation and we have almost
no knowledge as to what produces pres
sure, Temperature, humidity, rainfall,
wind velocity and direction and cloul
movements in cyclones and antiey-
clcnes"
Iia4en is one OF the Oldest and best
informed members OF the national
weather bureau and the above admls-
sion, after twenty-five years weather
bureau work by the ablest scicnl lists
that could be procured. at cost OF
about twenty millions OF dollars, must
come as a surprise TO very many peo-
pie in the United States.
Professors Able and Hazen, more
than all others. have given direction to
the work and investigation In the
weather bureau and all their efforts
have been based on the theory that
heat Is the cause, the moving force,
that underlles all changes in our at
mosphere.
For fifteen years have been combat
ting their theory, telling them through
the public press that they had started
wrong and that magnetism Is the cause,
heat being only result Now comes
Professor Hnzen acknowledging that
they have been wrong, that they must
seek Il new basis and do all their work
over again
All these terrible mistakes come from
being taught instead OF being educated
and therein Is n very serious defect In
our schools. Our children are taught to
believe scientific theories instead Of
being educated and prepared to inves-
tigate for themselves.
II, as Professor Hazen admits, the
heat theory has failed to explain the
formations of rain and other atmos-
pherlc changes then no progress can be
made in foretelllng the weather by
weather bureau methods. The weather
bureau must attain 20 long range fore-
casts or 1t is a failure and will not be
supported.
do not mean to say that the weather
bureau has wholly failed In forecasting
the weather. Their forecasts are valu-
able TO some people but of no value to
niLe-tenths Of the people. because n
short range forecast cannot reach them
In time 10 be OF practical utility.
The force that produces weather
changes must be universal and only
magnetism can I'll this requirement.
As magnetism is universal. o'nnipres-
ent, its cause must be equally extensive
and can be none other than the ether,
whose motion ~ caused by the in
drnught of growing bodies and that
motion Is the cause OF magnetism.
The perpetual downpour through a
spiral movement over the north At
lantic brings to the surface OF the
ocean waters a somewhat? which gath
ers up very small particles OF the mos-
ture and then Immediately starts over
a circultous route. toward the CONT
nents.
There can be no question that the
moisture for the continents thus gath
cred by the downpouring somewhat?
over the great oceans But what Is
that somewhat7
That It is electricity in some OF its
multifariouB forms or conditions should
not now be questioned but the term
electricity has become 30 broad that We
need more specific terms.
A recent writer In standard scienti-