The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-12
JANuARYWEATHER FORECAST
HOW THE MISSOURI MAN HAD
IT PUT UP.
Prophet Hicks Forecasts, Based on
the Positions of the
Planets.

or so-caued "predictions' of Hicks, the
Missouri weather prophet, announced
by him in the latter part Of December:
The LIST and I'd are reactionary storm
days, hence on touching these dates it
will grow warmer barometer will fall,
and cloudiness with rain and probable
thunder in the south, turning to snow
in most sections northward, may rea-
sonably be expected. A prompt and
sharp rise of barometer and rush Of
cold from the northwest should be an
ticipated in the rear of all these mid
winter storms.
A regular Vulcan storm period covers
the 4th to Sth, central on the 9th. The
first of these periods, as rule, brings
bright days and change of falling ba-
rometer and warmer in the western ex-
tremes. By the time these conditions
end in rain and snowstormS west,
warmer with falling barometer. will
reach central and eastern sections,
change to cold wave and blizZardouS
conditions are prevailing westward.
Later the cold and high west winds
reach the eastern parts.
We can never emphasize this progress
sive law Of storm movements too much.
At times when vast polar perturbations
lie along the extreme north through all
the lOngitudes of our continent, great
snowstorms and billiards strike the
extreme northeasterly gales that rush
in from the north Atlantic to meet the
continental low barometer advancing
eastward over the country. In such
cases the extreme east will have cold
and Billiards almost or quite as early
as the West. The great storms along the
coasts in the closing months of 1893
were marked instances, and were the
inevitable results of phenomenally low
barometers over the country west of
these regions.
The storm diagram shows that we en-
ter a Mercury perturbation about the
Sth. the period being central on the
18th and extending to the 18th. With
in this Mercury period falls a somewhat
remarkable succession of moon phe-
nomena. 1t will be at greatest south
defamation on the 9th, at new and peri
gee on the 11th, on the equator on the
10Th and at first quarter on the 18th.
Meantime there is reactionary
storm period central from the 18th to
18th, and a regular Vulcan storm pc
riod from the 10Th to 10TH All the CEN
trail part of the month will also feel
the perturbations caused by the oppo-
sition Of Mars. The earth will glide be-
tween Mars and the sun on January
18th, which fact insures an abnormal
tension of the magnetic, electrical and
atmospheric states of our globe for at
least ten days before and after the
18th.
All through the Mercury period.
stormy and phenomenal weather may
be expected, but the times of natures
greatest storm pulsations and throbs
will fall about the 18th to 18th, and
the 10th to 18th. The phenomena at
these times VIII have a wide range in
character as we'll as in extent; thun-
der, lightning and tropical rains occur
ring to southwark, turning to vast de-
structive sqeet and snowstorms north
ward, ending in dangerous blizzards
| and cold waves that will send a low
thermometer quite to the southern gulf
If general low barometer over the
continent ushers in these storm periods
we admonish our readers in the far
south to beware of the sequel-to look
for cold to follow.
CAucl the same cOnultlOnS, Atlantic
coast regions should be watchful
against violent, northeasterly storms.
Whatever precautions are practicable
to prevent destruction and hardship by
| heavy sleet storms and billiards should
certainly be employed or kept at ready
command on land and sea. Perishable
goods of all kinds should be protected
against the extreme cold likely to fol-
low storms at this time, and ample pro-
lection should be provided for the
dumb, dependent brute creation.
On and touching the 9th to Goth,
falling barometer, change to warmer,
with return of rain and snowstorms will
be very natural. Another sharp return
| to cold will bring up the rear of these
disturbances, but the cold wave will
suddenly moderate as we enter the Vul-
can storm period extending from the
18th to 31st
This closing January storm period
will be central on the 29th, the moon
being on the celestial equator at the
same time In all probability the tenn
perature will rise so that a general
thawing will take place about the 2Sth
to 10th, attended with warmer rains
and possible tropical storms southwark
about Sunday, the 18th, to Tuesday, the
31st. But let none of my readers rash
ly conclude that "the backbone of the
winter is broken"
ADJUSTMENTS.