West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-05-02
MAY METEROLOGY.
The Brand OF Weather ON Tap Accord.
lug TO Rev. Mr.. Hicks.

Up to May the 9th the Mercury pertutba.
ton which was central on April the soth.
will continue in force. blending its peculiar
characteristics with the reaetionary distur.
banee from the ist to Srd. aud with the reg
ular storm period from the Sth to 10th
The Moon is at apogee on the and and full
on the Srd, ON aud touching which days
marked barometric fluctuations will appear,
ending in vernal storms of much energy A
rapid rise of the barometer, with cool west
winds aud frost norihward, will follow these
reaetionary storms, spreading eastward and
southwark before the appearance of the
storm conditions due on the 9th to 9th.
Look for some very active storms of rain,
wind and thunder from Monday the 9th to-
Thursday the 9th. Dangerous storms arc
possible, hut if they appear in any locality
they will be preceded Ivy high temperature,
east TO south winds, Sultriness and GOsc ba.
y0Dlcfcr, the last named indication being Ivy
all odds the most important and reliable.
Another change to rising barometer. west
storms of this period.
On aud about Sunday the I,th to Tuesday
the I4th will fall marked reaction to storm
conditions. On Monday the Sth the Moon
will be on the celestial equator, coming up
from her south declnation. hence the
crisis of this reaciionary period will fall
on and next TO the 18th. Vicious thun.
der storms, with possible violence are prob
able. Temperature, wind currents, barom-
eter and clouds, will all admonish watchful
people long before the arrival Of danger, q,
this and all other storm periods.
The Vulcan or Irregular storm period, ="
central on the 18th, brings with il Moons
perigee on 18th and new Moon at an eclipse
node on the 18th, total eclipse of the sun
falling on the latter date This eclipse will
not be visible in this county, but no doubt
we will see and /rsI the electric and atmos-
phereic perturbations resulting from the
Moons direct conjunction with Earth and
Sun, even on our side Of the globe. 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
constitute, also, the most probable earth
quake period for the month Prudent read.
ers Of these forecasts will watch the clouds
aud other storm indications during this and
other May storm periods. Very cool nights
will follow with the higher barometer from
about The 10Th To the 22nd. Frost in the
north very probable during these nights.
reaotionary storm period runs from the
25d TO the 2Sth, and the Moon being on the
celestial equator on the 26,h, in all proba-
bility the storm conditions Of this period
will be SO prolonged as to reach crisis
about that date. This is the time when we
may reasonably look for daily series of
rain and ,hunderstorms for several days in
succession, beginning, perhaps at the New
Moon in the Vulcan storm period, 18th to
goth. These daily cycles of May storms often
occur in the central and western states, tor
nadoes breaking out here and there dur.
ing their continuance. When they once
begin, until the barometer makes a decided
rise, and a change to west winds and much
cooler occurs, heavy, threatening, thunder
storms are almost certain to recur about the
same hour Of day or night for several days,
breaking up with final storm of wide ex-
tent and dangerous force. Very cool TO
c0H nights, with fros,s in many sections,
often follow the breaking up Of these daily
May storms. The month goes out in the
midst OF "a Vulcan storm period which is
central on the goth. A warm wave for the
season, falling barometer and wide storm
areas will be advancing from western ex-
tremes during the closing days of May.
The only caush for apprehending danger Gus
storms out of the ordinary, during this and
other months of tho season, is the fact that
the planet Jupiter is passing his equinoctiaI
point ai this time. As we write these fore.
casts, newspapers and letters bring us ac-
counts Of the great storms and flood along
the Atlantic Coast regions, forcbly verify
ing our forecasts of such phenomena in that
direction. Let it be remembered that the
Johnsiown flood, aud many similar caiastro-
phes, happened near the center Of the Ia.
piter disturbance. The present Jupiter per
iod' lasting two to three years, is at lis cen.
ter on April the 2znd. Storms of unusual
destructiyeness for so early in the season
have already occurred, notably the tornado
that wrought so much ruin and death in Al
ALBANIA and Georgia. These must in large
part, be attributed 20 the influence Of the
Jupiter perturbation. The same is true con.
ccrning the great Galveston ,rror last
September.
We reiicrate our predictions that par
tial subsidence Of destructive rains and
floods in the gulf regions will set in during
this season, that cloud-bursts and local
floods will visit regions frontingthe Atlantic.
and that dangerous tendency to dyNcsi
will visit the grain regions Of the interior
during the present and coming seasons.
although local "watcr spouts" and cloud.
bursts are probable in any section. The
tendency with nature at such times is %
tear her cloud chario,s into tatters, thus
dumping her watery accumulations over
narrow areas, instead Of dnusiua the
moisture.