The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-08-08
WHAT HICKS SAYS.
About the Weather for the Month oil
August.

The Sd and 4th Of August are CEN
trail days of reactionary storm dis
turbances. On and touching these
days the temperature will rise to a
climax of warmth. and barometric
readings will fall, progressivelyrfrom
west to east, ending in threatening
clouds, with thunder, light rains and
heavy buster 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 pas
sage over the celestial equator on the
9Th. These facts will necessitate ex-
cessively warm weather, and if violent
electrical storms do not result seismic
perturbations will be most natural.
1t IS questionable whether normal re-
actions to cooler weather will follow
the storm period or whether general
and heavy rains or whether general
and heavy rains will attend these
storms, during much of August. We
believe that very warm weather, with
light precipitation-even hurtfuI
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 confirm
ed by long and critical observation, it
is fact that these equinoctisl periods
of the planet Mars almost invariably
perpetuate for many weeks the kind of
weather, and other phenomena, pre-
vailing at the beginning of these
periods 1t is Therefore reasonably safe
to say that the key to the character of
weather to be expected in August and
much Of September, will be found in
the kind of weather we hav, from
the. ,st to the 10Th of August. What
ever the general character Of the
weather, it must be remembered that
the regular and reactionary storm
periods will not be obliterated. The
raise and fall barometer and the
changes in temperature, In less de-
gree, Of course, resulting in more or
less cloudiness, precipitation and
storminess. will come and go In con-
formity 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 ap-
preaching to warm and dry neither
does a long, general spell of warm,
dry weather necessarily imply that
changes to cooler with occasional
rains cannot come. 1t is the difference
in degree to long period. On the
18th, 10th and 10Th reaction to
storm conditions will be noticeable
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 appear with
the rising barometer following 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
turbing powers to the period. During
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 dangerous storms
to appear on the southern seas and