The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-02
Hicks Forecast for january.

VI Cho .hAiu' DuiiuS ~Iuls period the
usual perturbatlons resulting at winter
storm periods will develope and pass
successfully and progressively from west
to east across the country. In the FIRST
stages of the period change to warmer
and falling barometer will be noted in
western extremes. Cloudiness with rain
and snow will appear in the same sec.
tons first, and from about Friday the
3rd, to Monday the 9th, the areas of low
barometric pressure, cloudiness and
precipitation will pass over the coun-
try to the Atlantic. From one to three
days before the storm conditions reach
the extreme east, high barometer
and change to much colder will be fol.
lowing VI, the storms of rain and snow
from the northwest, bringing progress
sively few days of fair cold weather,
before the reaction of the next storm
conditions sets in.
The stars attached to Thursday, Fri.
lay and Saturday, the 9th to 18th, in
dictate that return to storm conditions
will be due on and touching those days.
The rising temperature, falling barome.
trio readings, cloudiness and more rain
and snow will develop and take up their
line of march eastward over the country
at this time, all followed in regular
order by raising barometer, cold wave
and clear weather.
During the passage of very low bar
ometric conditions over this continent
in winter, heavy storms of snow and
billiards. often come at short tangents
down through Canada, two or three days
before the wider tangents sweep in larg
er areas over the central to southern
parts of our country. At the same time
and under the same conditions, very
heavy,Igales and storms often sweep in
land from the Atlantic ocean to meet
the depressed barometric conditions adj
vancing eastward across the states.
Local indications will always show to
careful observers when such results are
coming to those sections, so that no one
watching the Developments of the
storm periods need be surprised by
storms in any extremes of the CONT.
nent, The moon being at south deli
nation during the disturbances about
the 9th to 18th, the cold attending and
following these storms will be more
general and severe.
The storm diagram shows Mercury
disturbance to be central on the 18th,
extending from the 18th to the 2ard. A
Vulcan storm period is also coincidep,
with the first half of this Mer~
period, being central on the ~,
Some of the heaviest stoms of ,'. 49,
are quite probable from p ,. I'D =
the l4th, to Friday tb, ,zth 49, ~,
the equal on the 14tb will intensity
electric conditio' % causing mnch warm.
81 ouanse, 18th possible lightning and
.n"n''es IN the south. As low barome-
'et asses eastward, wide areas of rain
" al turn to sleet and snow, ending in
4 billiards. to north and west, with
sweeping cold waye bringing up the
rear. This is one of the periods when
Canada and the North Atlantic, or ex-
treme New England coasts, will most
likely catch the wild blows of Boreas
Sin the neck" AsI Mercury is the
ssleet god" it will be rational to count
on heavy sleet in many parts of the
country during all the storms within
the Mercury brace, shown in the storm
diagram.
About the 10th the prevailing cold
will abate, thel barometric conditions
will begin Ito change to the westward
aud reactionary storms Of rain will
These rain. tareasdwill. lquickly turn tc
sleet and snow, and .dunng the Goth to
23rd, winter storms and billiards. viii
be experienced in. many sections EN-
braced in,the central and northern sta
ties. The south will notbe exempt from
boreal visltations at this and other Jan
uary coldwaye ,periods. We do no
believe MISUNDERSTANDING frosts anc
freezing will reach Into Florida regions
to any general. .extent; but barometri'
conditions ..shouldube closely watched
and If very low inithe south, with very
high and cold wavei.. advancing from
northwest, prompt precautions should
be taken to protect oranges and al
other neutrality-suspicious..
The last regular. sstorm,period in Jan
uary will be central on the Goth, cover
ing the Oath to..29th. 1t problematica
whether full moon on the'23r will lent
its perturbing power tolthe disturbance
Immediately proceeding, or to the Vul
can storm period, oath to Goth. If t,
the latter storm, conditions will begll
early in thelperiod, last longer, and b.
more general and, intense. Storms q