Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-12-01
HICKS FOR DECE B
A Stormy rlonth Predictes

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Rev. Irl L. Hicks, the weather prop
het, announces the following predictions
for December:
A Mercury disturbance is central ON
the last day of November, covering the
first week in December. A Vulcan
storm period covers the End to 9th. The
Mars period is still dominant, and the
winter ~solstice period begins about the
4th. All these things considered, many
heavy winter storms will be very natural
from about the 3rd to It'll. The disturb
ances will set in with a change to much
warmer and falling barometer in west
ern extremes the first days Of the period.
These conditions will move eastward,
developing into storms Of rain first, fol-
lowed in most parts of the country by
| change to sleet and snow from about the
4th TO It'll. Mercury is the sleet god-so
that the most general and destructive
sleet storms fall almost invariably i'm
the Mercury periods during the winter
season. Therefore, prudential measures
should be at ready command by all
whose interests are likely to be involved
by rains TURNING to sleet and snow dur
ingthis period. Billiards to the north and
west will not surprise any careful inter-
prefer of these forecasts, from about the
4th to the 18th. A general high barom-
eter and cold wave will rush southwark
and eastward at the end of this period
sending a real breath Of winter very far
into the south. BE watchfuI for its de-
velopment and progress. Minor storm
tendencies will be manifest in most sec
tions on and touching the 9th and 10th.
High, dangerous wintry gales will pre-
vail over the north Atlantic seas during
all these December solstice periods.
During the next regular storm period
the 18th to 18th, look for return of very
marked storm conditions. About the.
18th, the barometer will begin to fall in
western sections, warmer days will adj
vance eastward, with barometer falling
to low readings and ending in active.
storms of rain, with probable wind and
thunder southwark, during the 14th to.
18th. The moon being on the celestial
equator on the 18th, the probabilities
are great for a continuance of heavy
winter perturbations over that date and
into the ~reactionary storm disturbances
central on the 10th Goth and 21st. These
last dates are at the enter of the winter
s~olstice, the point where earth turns in
her orbit and begins her return to. longer
days. For a number of days before, In
Guiding and after these central dates,
the correct history of weather phenom-
ena all over the northern hemisphere
will show a decided tendency to boreal
storms. All areas of mountain and
plain, where heavy Accommodations OF
snow and ice are common, will receive
large additions at and about this time
Another severe, far reaching cold wave
may be expected with the on-coming
high barometer that Will succeed the
storms OF this part of December.
The last regular storm period for the
month will fall from 25th to 29th. This
will bring a return to warmer weather,
falling barometer. and more storms Of
rain and snow, progressively from the
west to east during three or four days
say about the 26th to 2ath.