Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-02-23
WEATHER BULLETIN
sropM FORECAST As GIVEN OUT
ny W. n. FOSTER.
wave of Great Importance billed 10
Appear In the Central valley
About March 4.

ST. Joseph. Mo. Feb, 22,-(copyrighted
1896 by W. 4. Foster)-My last bulle-
tin gave forecasts Of the storm wave to
cross tie continent from the I'D to the
9Th, and the next will reach the PACT
iic coast about the 2sth, cross the west
OF Rockies country by close OF the 18TH.
great central valleys March LIST to Sd,
ana eastern states 4th.
This will be an important disturb
ance of wide extent and OF more tnan
the usual force. In many parts of the
continent all the varieties of weather
may De expected, from bhlmy spring
days 10 the uncouth blizzard, the form
er preceding and the latter following
the central dates Of the disturbance.
The cold wave following THIS storm
Is expected to bring unusually low tenn
pcraturcs IN tho great central valleys
that will continue through the lrst
week OF March.
The warm wave win cross the west OF
! Rockies country about February ~.
great central valleys March /. eastern
states March 3. Cold wave VIII cross
the west OF Rockies country about
March 9, great central valleys 18th, east
| ern states 9th.
Four times out OF five my forecasts
| Of average monthly temperatures prove
| corrrut and one time out OF 1--WE there
! tx reversal. a rcpulse. battle lost,
Why? Becauso the system Is not yet
| perfected.
For the Missouri, Ohio and Mlssis-
! 4itui ytIlava forarnsts az January tenn
| perltures proved Incorrect: the temper
| atutcs We're exactly opposite what the
| calculations Indicated This upplIos
| only To tho total monthly rvtrapn The
changes Within Inc month CONT. about
~ prpdlrtcd
Professor Bgelow OF the national
wehther bureau finds exactly the same
d'UhcultS, lie mas a ty.seNen days
period Whloh he believes 20 be cuntr1ll-
ed bN inc sums rotations. lie found
thiA period BY a ten-ye1rs' record In
Europe or the magnetic forces, These
FORCES seem To repeat themselves In
about iwenly-seVen duNs AMI they ar
feet the temperatures no that they re-
peat N about the same period
If the length OF Professor Rlgelow's
magnetic aud temperature period
proves To be correct-there can be no
doubt that 1t II nearly so-he would
have correct basis for long range
forecasts II II were not for one troub-
lesome difficulty
About one out OF I'VE OF these twenty
seven days periods rcverHes, both In
magnetic force and In the tcmpcrn-
lures, and he has not, 40 far, been able
TO discover the cause.
one time In 1--WE the long range fore
ohsts completely fail MS 10 tempera-
: lures. This, however. stu leaves about
80 per cent OF correct temperature fore
onats'
! Ine ioreeasts Tor rainfall, with few
exceptions, were good. at least so per
cent correct and for all, except the
: northern portions of the great central
{ valleys, the temperature forecasts were
: good
4 GENERA MARCH WEATHER,
Temperatures in the northern NOR.
: tlon az the prcnt CENTRAL ,,oila,'. IN,
I nyoraqe law s. Inuis Knnsas rI,,.
E Omaha. Davenport. C,hicaeo Cnlumh,,s
Cincinnati and back 10 4, .onis n,nisss
!. a circle lnsid, OF vhtci, ,sIu hn H.
: lowest average tompernturea for Nnr"h
| and all around this Center or cola ID"
: averages will tend toward warmer
y reaching to above the normal on IN.
!, paniuc slope, on the borders Of Nexico
= on the northern coasts of the GuIf n,
!, Mexico and In Florida and only \
:, li.le below normal In the remaindcl
4 OF tho Atlantic states and In Canada.
y Rainfall for March viii be nbov,
a normal In Flo ida, East Gulf states
II Cumberland valley and northern mar
A OF the Pacific slope, In the Ohio. Mis-
souri, and upper Mis1ippl valleys, up
per ana lower lakes. Manitoba, Re,
e River OF the North valley and the east
= ern provinces OF Canada rainfall vii
be little below normal.
Il w. above forecasts, remember. ar,
AVERAGES nv s9 nt , nm,nIsl, and The MONTH!
It uai storms. cold WAVES ana . ,nuiviu
10 OF Temperature will he ~ n,,t, V. w
/, ferent Character and more ra5I., u''
II About the first parf niI,iI.
lie close OF the month will oeenp y a,
* great extremes 81 na,,t oev MI yer
& ciflc slope should prcnors to,, n, ~
IT usually stormy and cool ne,iod n W.
II the middle OF March Ahan, No. ~" wv
ID all the country enst ~ tho ~. LII WI, wi,
II be subjected to very scvers wna,ha,, W.,
IA GLIDING a severe cold waya NJ" AZ, ~