Bridgeton pioneer., 1902-08-07
WEATHER FORECASTS
FOR THIS MONTH.

the temperature will rise to climax
of warmth, and barometric readings
will fall, progressively from west to
east, ending in threatening clouds,
with thunder, light rains and heavy
bluster in many sections. On the 9Th
earth passes between the sun and the
great world Jupiter, near New Moon
on the Sd and the moons passage over
the celestial equator on the 9Th.
These facts will necessitate excessive
ly warm weather, and if violent cleo
trical storms do not result seismic
perturbations will be most natural.
1t is questionable whether normal
reactions to cooler weather will fol-
low the storm period, or whether
general and heavy rains will attend
these storms, during much of August.
We believe that very warm weather,
with light precipitations- hurt
full drouth are in store for most parts
of the country, until the latter part
: of the month, especially.
The storm diagram indicates the
presence of Mars period, which is
central early in September, covering
almost all of August. AS laid down
in our Foundation Facts, published
nearly twenty years ago, and con-
firmed by long and critical observa-
tion, it is fact that these equinoctial
periods of the planet Mars almost in
variably perpetuate for many weeks
the kind of weather, and other phe-
nomena, prevailing at the beginning
of these periods. 1t is therefore rea-
sonably safe to say that the key to
the character of weather to be ex-
pected in August and much of Sep
tember, will be found in the kind of
weather we have from the 1st to the
18th of August. Whatever the gen.
eral character of the weather, it must
be remembered that the regular and
reactionary storm periods will not be
obliterated. The rise and fall of
barometer and the changes in temper
ature, in less degrees, of course, re-
sulting in more or less cloudiness,
precipitation and atorminess, will
come and go in conformity with the
periods shown in the storm diagram.
A prolonged period of very wet and
cool weather does not require that
there be no days approaching to warm
and dry; neither does a long, general
spell of warm, dry weather necessar-
lily imply that changes to cooler with
occasional rains cannot come. 1t is
the difference in degree and intensity
that gives character to long period.
The Vulcan storm period central on
the 9th, covering the 7th to 12th, will
be marked by changes in the ther-
mometer and barometer, common to
the storm periods, and the culmina-
tion into storm, with more or less
precipitation, may be expected on and
touching the 9th, 10th and 11th. This
period may be watched with interest,
as it may indicate one way or an
other, much that may be in store for
us for weeks to come. We would like
much to be mistaken, but we fear
that, in the main, warm and dry will
prevail
On the 14th, 10Th and 10th reac-
tion to storm conditions will be no.
ticeable-the barometer will fall,
warmth will increase, cloudiness will
ensue, and rains, according to the
abundance or lightness prevailing in
the Mars period, will visit many,
parts in transit from west to east.
Change to cooler should normally ap-
pear with the rising barometer fol-
lowing these perturbations.
Coming to the Vulcan storm period
extending from the 18th to 23d, we
see by the storm diagram that Mars,
earth and Mercury all lend their dis
trubing powers to the period. Dur
ing this period we also find that the
moon is at her full on the 18th and on
the celestial equator on the 21st.
Earth will have entered far enough
into the autumnal equinox at this
time, to make it possible for danger
ous storms to appear on the southern
seas and coasts. West India hurri-
canes are not at all improbable at this
period. We do not affirm that such
WILL appear, but those whose lives
and interests are exposed to such visi-
tatlOns, along the Gulf of Mexico,
and in the coasts and islands in those
regions, can lose nothing by watch
ing indications and being reasonably
ready for all possible emergencies.
Those early equinoctial storms some
times leave the equatorial regions at
such places and tangents as to come
up through the Pacific Ocean, in
which event it behooves our friends
at exposed points along the Pacific
coasts to watch all marked indications