The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-07-25
WEATHER FORECAST
For August, as Predicted by the Rev.
Irl. Hicks.

For August, as Predicted by the Rev.
Irl. Hicks.
The following forecast of the weather
for August is taken from Rev. 1rl
Hicks Word and Works:
The storm diagram below shows that
a Vulcan storm period Is central on
August ], Indicating rising temperature,
falling barometer and more or less
stormlness and rain from LIST to ga.
Cooler. clearing weather, with rising
barometer and westerly winds, Will
follow these disturbances from the
west, reaching eastern extremes about
the 4th.
There Will be a rapid reaction to
storm conditions about the 9Th and 1th,
and these conditions will eliminate In
electrical storms. with great biuster
and some rain In numerous localities on
and touching the Sth, the date when
moon passes the celestial equator. Very
warm weather may be expected from
the date Of new moon and Apogee, the
9Th, until after low barometer and
storms eliminate about the Sth. Pro-
gressIye change to cooler, travelling
from west to east behind the storm
conditions, will form the natural and
ordinary sequel to the period spread
inS TO the Atlantic by about the 9th.
The next regular storm period falls
from the nth to 18th. This will bring
return Of falling barometer, easterly
and southerly winds. and very warm
days. About the 18th to 18th hot
wave will eliminate over the central
states, ending in thunder storms, gen.
eral buster and local rains. The moon
being at extreme south declination on
the 10Th. wind currents should natural
ly flow from north to south from about
the 18th to nth, bringing marked
change to cooler over most parts OF the
northern hemisphere.
The storm diagram shows that we
enter the perturbation caused by the
earth's approach to the autumnal equl-
nox, about the middle OF August. 1t
shows, also, that a mercury disturb
nnCe is central on the 21st, covering the
18th to 18th. During this combined dis
turbance Of earth and mercury, the
most general and severe disturbances
OF August will be natural. From the
18th to Goth a warm wave. low barom-
eter and general storm tendencies will
appear. on the goth the moon Is in per-
lgee and full, Indicating that storm CON
ditlons may reach crisis on and about
that date. A generally perturbed state
will very probably continue over the
moons passage OF the equator on the
22nd, and into the regular storm period
extending from the 23rd to 9th. We
suggest that regions In the south Pa
cIflc, and along the southern coasts and
islands, will act wisely II they prompt
ly heed the earliest Indications and
warnings OF possible cyclones and hur-
rlcanes, coming up from West Indies
about this time. Such developments
need surprise no one along the gulf re-
glons, and In case OF their advent, un-
seasonably cool to cold weather will
prevail over central and northern
states, until hurricanes or cyclOnlc con-
ditions pass into the north Atlantic re-
glons. We do not affirm that such will
be the case this month, but these early
edulnoctlal storms not unfreQuently
strike our southern coasts in August.
there being strong probabilities Of such
developments this month.
When these West India cyclones and
hurricanes do not develop as early us
| August, but come as earth approaches
more nearly the center OF the autumnal
| equinox in September, great and sus-
tuined heat prevails over most parts OF
the United States through August, with
| little comparative rainfall and much
tendency to seismic phenomena, espe-
| Gully Ut kliIltA HNtAl nc" NAA0 ANAi
moons. August closes In reactionary
storm period, with moon near her
greatest north declination. The month
Will end quite warm, with local summer
storms in transit from west to east. We
fear that most sections will lack for
rain this month.
All readers OF our forecasts for years
past will know that our predictions OF
great drouth, or n minimum of rain
| fall for the north and west" calls for
the crisis OF such conditions in 1900 and
1901. We expected that those sections
would begin to feel approaching drouth
this season, and still believe that such
viii be the case. At the same time, the
excess OF rain to the south. which was
n part OF the general forecast, has now
become a disastrous page in history.
! We are grntihed that seasonal condi-
lions have remained as good as they
have, north and west, up to the middle
OF July. Notwithstanding. Colorado,
parts Of New Mexico, Western Kansas
and almost all Of New England. have
already had foretastes OF the extreme
drouth which will reach its crisis Mt
the time and in the sections already
spcclhed.
ST. Louis, July II. 1899
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