West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-07-02
OUR JULY WEATHER.
MUCH LESS RAIN THAN DURING,
JUNE AND SOME DRY WEATHER
FOR JULY AND AUGUST.
According TO the Forecast OF Prof. Ira
Hicks, the Great Prognostic ator.

The first is reactionary period,
central on Thursday and Friday,
the end and 3rd. The dominating
Mercury influence will strengthen
the tendency TO rain and storminess
on and touching these days, and
prolong state of cloudiness be-
yond the normal limits of the
period. Very warm, muggy wealth
er will prevail during these distur-
Dances, but very proable change
to cooler will pass over the country
from west to east between the 4th
and 9TH,
The second storm period covers
the 9TH to the nth, being central
on the 9th, the date of the Moon,
this period also, being within the
Mercury brace. Falling barometer,
growing warmth and increasing
cloudiness and humidity will mark,
the first days of this period, pro-
gressiyely from west to east, and
from about the 9th to nth decided
storm areas will organize and pass
eastward across the country. Thun-
der storms, with wind and rain,
will strike many localities during
the progress of these storm condi-
tons. Another change to rising
barometer, westerly winds, clearing
and cooler will lie between these
disturbances and the reactionary
perturbations due about the 18th
and 18th. On these dates look for
marked change to warmer, with
falling barometer and more rain,
wind and thunder. On and touch
ing the 18th, as the Moon passes
over the equator from south to
north, thunder clouds, local rains
and much clustering will be most
natural, but we do not calculate
that general and copious rains will
fall. Slight rise of barometric pres
sure, and change of wind to wester-
ly and cooler, will naturally come
in behind these reactionery excite
ments.
A regular storms period is cen
trail on the 2oth, extending its in
fluence from about the 18th to 23rd,
normally. But we find that the
Moon is both new and in perigee on
the 24th, which fact will greatly
tend to increase and prolong very
high temperature, very proably di
verting actual storms from the
period, 18th 10 23rd, and drawing
them forward into the reactionary
period central on the 2sth, 10th and
: 9Th. One of the warmest waves in
July may reasonably be counted on
from about Friday the 24th to Mon
day the a7th. On and touching
the a7th, many active electrical
storms are more than proable. Any
careful observer may soon satisfy
himself that increase in temperature,
as rule, attends the conjunction
of Sun, Earth and Moon, also that
the passage of the Moon over the
celestial equator bring increased
warmth and electrical disturbances.
Hence the new Moon, or Moon in
conjunction with Sun and Earth
being nearest the Earth also-fal!-
lug on the 74th and being on the
equator on 77th, all in reaction
airy storm period, a crisis of sum-
mer heat will be natural for several
days, eliminating about the 77th in
many thunder storms, and followed
by change to cooler. The equi-
noctial period of the planet Mars
begins about the 7oth, as shown on
the storm diagram. It's influence
will be added TO other disturbing
causes the last ten days of July, and
the general tone or character of the
storms and weather prevailing the
last half of July, will indicate to a
large degree the character of storm
and weather through August and
much of September, The opposi-
ton of the planet Saturn with Earth
and Sun falls on July Both. This
will also be factor in all the mete-