Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-03-05
HICKS FORECAST.
Predicts Month of March will Be Very
Stormy Peri d.

The first regular storm period for
March is from the End to the 9TH.
At this time the earth is fully under
the influence of her own vernal
equinox, blended with a Venus dis
turbance. From about Tuesday the
3rd, to Friday the 9Th, there are
reasons to expect all the changes
and phenomena of a very decided
storm period A marked change to
warmer and falling barometer will
lead rapidly into cloudiness, with
general rain and thunder storms in
the south. Rains may also be ex-
pected in central and northern Sec
lions, but change to much colder
will follow the rains, with heavy
snow squalls generally along the
northern side of the country. Sharp
change to cold will bring up the
rear of these storms, bringing the
temperature quite to the frost line
far into the south.
The 9th and 10th are central days
of a reactionary perturbation, IN
tensifed by Moon in perigee on the
10th. In all our publications, for
nearly twenty years, we have ex-
planned that an electrical crisis is
annually to be looked for about the
10th to 18th of March. The Moon
being at full and on the celestial
equator on 18th, within two days OF
it's perigee, on the 10th, we are nat
urally to look for electrical phe-
nomena out of the ordinary during
this annual period this month. Ii
the Moons perigee or nearest APP
proach to Eerth, had fallen two
days later, or. coincident with the
full Moon on the equator on the 18th
violent storms and tidal waves
would have been almost a certainty
in the south. AS it is, marked dis
turbances of this kind need not be a
surprise in that part of the county.
Heavy earth-currents OF magnetism
and electricity, auroral lights, seis-
mic commissions and quickened vol
canic activity, are among the things
reasonably to be expected during
and about the 10th to 18th.
The regular storm period, center
ing on the 10th and extending from
the 18th to the goth, will bring a
time of exceedingly unsettled wealth
er, with probability of many heavy
and some dangerous storms. The
barometer and hygrometer will
prove faithful monitors at this, as
well as at all other times of violent
storms and changes. The indica-
lions point to two decided disturb
ances during this central period IN
March, one at the very beginning of
the period, and the other about the
18th and 18th. The storms on and
about the 18th will barely subside
before the entrance to reactlonary
storm conditions due Dist and 22nd.
This is at the center Of the Vernal
equinox, and many equinoctlal
squalls with much unpleasant wealth
er may safely be counted on. In all
central, western and northern Sec
lions, mingled rain, snow and raw,
depicting winds will render it ex-
ceedingly hard and trying on I'M
sheltered live stock.
The last general storm period in
March is central on the 9th, cover
ing the 25th to 3Oth This period is
covered also by a Mercury pertur-
baton. The Moon is on the celes-
tial equator on the 28th. AS we ap-
proach these days it will turn phe-
nomenally warm for the season, the
barometer will fall to low and dang
erous readings, and anywhere from
Friday the 9th, to Monday the Both
it will be wise to keep an eye on the
gathering storm indications. Very
warm, humid weather, with greatly
depressed barometer, will presage
violence and danger, especially in
all central to southern parts Of the
country. Late snow and sleet storms
will be most natural northward.
The month, in every probability,
will reach it's close in the midst of
the cold wave at the end of these
storms.