Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-08-08
Be a stormy August.

be q stormy august.
Prof. Hicks makes the following prog
nostications for the weather for the
month Of August: The whole month OF
August will feel more OF less the influ-
ence of the equinox of the planet Mars.
We have frequently reserred to the fact
that the Mars Influence always tends to
fix and perpetuate any weather condi-
tions that MAJ exist at the time ofenter-
ing his equinociial periods. If at the
entrance of a Mars period it is dry and
warm, ic is safe to say that the same
kind of weather will largely predomi-
nate until his period is past. And so,
through all the seasons of the year, it is
Il proven fact that the kind OF phenom-
ena prevailing at the beginning ola Mars
period, is almost sure 10 be prolonged
during the life of that period. The reg
ular storm periods will not be obliterat-
ed, bnt the disturbance at these regular
times will be modified or aggravated in
the direction ofexisting conditions when
the Mars. period was entered. Hence, il
the present case is not an exception to
the rule, may expect, in the main, the
kind Of weather existing the last week
in July, throughout August and Septem-
Der. Whatever degree ofintensity may
be given to them, regular storm distur-
Dances will be due from the LIST to the
4th Of August. The probabilities are
that the natural warmth to be expected
at this season VIII grow into a crisis Of
summer heat about the l%t, 2nd and 3rd,
to be followed progressively from the
west by low barometer, threatening
clouds and severe clustering. Local
rains some Of them quite heavy-may
attend these storms, but the general
supply and diffusion of rains over the
country promise to be short and poorly
distributed. Rising barometer and
change to more pleasant conditions for
a few days will be natural behind the
perturbations at this time, extending
eastward over the country by the 4th
and 5th. A reactionary storm period
exists on the 9th, 7th and 9Th, during
which days look for increase Of warmth,
falling barometer and marked tendency
to black clouds, thunder and storminess.
One Of the cheated terms of the month
will appear from about the llth to the
10th. This greatly increases the proba-
bility of rain from about the 18th to the
18th. While the heat wave and storms
are still passing central and eastern parts
Of the country, change to cooler will be
advancing from the west and north, SO
that by the 10Th and 10th most parts Of
the country will have felt the change to
cooler weather. There will be percept-
able reaction TO rising temperature, fall
ing barometer and return to cloudiness
and storms on and touching the 18th and
18th, followed by another return to cool
err, more pleasant weather aboutthe 10Th
to 2lst. If the pe~rturbations Of THE Mars
period, which is seen by the storm dia-
gram to be central Oh the goth, should
take on the nature of violent atmospher'
ic displacements-a result rather to be
ex pected-the regular storm period ex-
tending from the 2lst to the 9th will
develop some violent and dangerous
West India storms. ~lfequatorial storms
appear in the south at this time reaching
regions as far north as our extreme
southern states, phenomenally cool
weather will follow the storms over all
central to north western states. Such re.
suits need not be q surprise to our read
ers. The 10Th AID 30th will bring a re.
action to storm conditions, and more or
less storminess and rain will result in
many localities. Rising barometer and
change TO cooler weather generally will
mark the closing hours of the month.
The disturbances prevalent during the
month of August, whatever may be their
peculiar characteristics, as already hint
ed in the foregoing, will continue on the
same line, doubtless with augmented in.
t~ensity, up to and beyond the crisis of
the autumnal equinox after the middle
of September.