Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

During the Month.
Professor Irl R. Hicks tells about
November weather in his Word and
Works as follows:
The storm diagram for this month
shows that a regular Vulcan storm
period is central on the first. The
moon is also on the celestial equator
on the same date passing from south
to north declination. BY the first
storm conditions will be organized in
the west, and the cloud areas and low
barometer will advance eastwardly
across the country, causing higher
temperature, rain and possibly thun-
derstorms i'll many sections on the
first, second and third. Rain and high
temperature will give way to rising
barometer, with possibly gusts OF
snow westerly winds and much cold
err on the western edge of the storm
centers. Some sharp days of cold and
frost to the northward will follow this
and other November storm periods
calling for a degree of planning and
care for the highest convenience and
comfort of man and beast. This will
he especially the case at the conclu-
sion of the storm periods shown in
| the mercury brace in the storm dia-
| gram.
Storms This Week.
About the fifth, sixth and seventh,
look for a noticeable rise in tempera-
ture, falling barometer and return Of
| general storm conditions. Rains turn
| ing to snow in the north will visit
most section of the country, in their
eastward march about the fifth to
| eighth. A marked change to high ba-
rometer and colder will follow the
storms, spreading to the east and
south about the seventh to ninth in
elusive
| The vulcan storm period. extend
| ing from the tenth to the fifteenth is
central on the twelfth and the mercury
| period extending from the seventh to
| the nineteenth, is central on the thir-
| teenth, hence the combined perturba-
lions of these two forces will be felt
| during the vulcan period. Moon is in
| perigee on the tenth, at last quarter
| on the eleventh, and on the celestial
| quarter going southwark on the four
teenth. About the twelfth to fifteenth
may reasonably be expected one of the
most general and active storm centers
of the months. AS early as the tenth
the barometer will be falling in the
west. Change to warmer will attend
| the falling barometer and during the
| eleventh to fifteenth these conditions
will pass over the country, moving
eastward bringing rain and snow.
storms to most parts of the country
Those who are familiar with our fore.
casts and storm charts will not be
surprised to see heavy sleet in many
| places, especially northward. Mer.
curry, they will remember, is the sleet
god and that he rarely misses an OPP.
| portunity to turn his 'thick cloudi
ness, mist and drizzle" into heavy and
oftimes destructive sleet A very de
cided dash of early winter will bring
/ up the rear of these storms, giving
several cold days and frosty nights
to most parts before the entrance OF
the next storm period
More Storms.
4 A reactionary storm period is cen
trail from the seventeenth to the TWEEN
tieth, having the new moon or moor
in conjunction with the earth and sur
on the nineteenth. This period viii
bring return of rising temperature
falling barometer and wide areas O.
cloudinessf, rain and snow. The cul
mination of these disturbances viii
fall on and next to the nineteenth A
! this time autumnal rains will end il
high gales over the lake and Atlanti,
coast regions, with dashes OF snow
and change to much colder over al
northern to central parts of the coun
try. Frost will reach quite into TIL,
south along with the high baromete
following these disturbances.
A regular storm period is central OF
the twentyfourth. covering with it's in
fluence the twenty-second to the TWEEN
ty-seventh. AS a rule the first tw,
or three days of the regular storm
periods are, fair and growing warme
with falling barometer and easterl,
to southerly winds. Then follow cloud
; mess. storm and precipitation. prc
excessively from west to east. Behin
the area Of high temperature and rail
rising barometer, snow and cold,wes
winds follow all ending in cold clea
weather. This order of phenomen
:. will transpire about the twenty-secon
. to twenty-sixth, but the cold fai
weather following the storms will b
. of but short duration. Reactionar
t storm conditions will prevail as th
month goes out, bringing unsettle
threatening and stormy weather.
SEVERELY BURNED.