Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-05-04
HICKS HAS MORE STORMS.
May viii be Month Of Cloud Bursts
and Local Floods

In his forecasts for May Irl Hicks
says;
| Up to May the 9th the Mercury per-
turbation which was central on April
the 18th. will continue in force.
blending its peculiar characteristics
with the reactionary disturban from
the LIST to Bird and with the regular
storm period from the 9Th to 10th.
A rapid rise of the barometer with
cool west winds and frost northwai d
will follow these reactionary storms.
Look for some very active storms
OF rain, wind and thunder from Nom
| day the 9th to Thursday the 9Th. Dan
gerous storms are possible, but if
they appear in any locality they will
be preceded by high temperature,
east to south winds, sultriness and
low barometer, the last named indi-
cation being by all odds the most i'm
portant and reliable. Another change
to rising barometer, west winds, and
very cool nights will follow the
storms of this period.
~On and about the 18th to the 18th
will fall marked reaction to storm
conditions Vicious thunder storms
with possible violence are probable
Temperature, wind currents, barome-
ter and clouds, will all admonish
watchful people long before the arri-
val OF danger, at this and all other
storm periods.
Great warmth for the season, very
low barometer and heavy storms of
RAIN, wind and thunder are more than
probable from Friday the 18th to
Monday the goth. The same days con-
stitute, also, the most probable earth
quake period for the month. Very
cool nights will follow with the high.
er barometer from about the 10Th to
the 22d. Frost in the north very prob
able during these nights.
A reactionary storm period runs
from the 23rd to the 18th, and the
Moon being on the celestial equator
on the Goth, in all probability the
storm conditions of this period will
be so prolonged as TO reach crisis
about that date. This is time when
we may reasonably look for daily
series of rain and thunder storms
for several days in succession begin
ing, perhaps at the New Moon in the
Vulcan storm period II to Goth.
When they once begin, until TIE baro-
meter makes a decided rise and a
change to west winds and much cooler
occurs heavy threatening thunder
storms are almost certain TO Tecur
about the same hour of day or night
for several days. breaking up with a
final storm of wide extent and dang
erous force The month goes out in
the midst Of Vulcan storm period
which is central on the Both. A warm
wave for the season, falling barome-
ter and wide storm areas will be adj
vancing from western extremes during
the closing days of Nav.
The only cause for experimenting
dangerous storms out of the ordinary
during this and other months of the
season, is the fact the planet Jupiter
is passing his equinoctial point at
this time. Let it be remembered
that the Johnstown flood and many
similar catastrophes, happened near
the centre of the Jupiter disturbance.
Storms of unusual destructiveness
for so early in the season have al
ready occurred, notably the tornado
in Alabama and Georgia. These
must in large part be attributed to
the influence of the Jupiter perturba-
ton. The same is true concerning
the great Galveston horror last Sep
TENDER.
We reiterate our predictions that
partial subsistence of destructive rains
and floods in the gulf regions will set
in during this season that cloudbursts
and local floods will visit the grain
regions of the interior during the
present and coming seasons, although
local water spouts" and cloud bursts
are probable in any section. The
tendency with nature at such times
is to tear her cloud chariots in tat
tiers, thus dumping hel watery accu-
mutations over narrow area. instead
of diffusing the moisture.
WILL STAR NEXT SEASON.