Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-05
STORMS TO BEGIN EARLY AND
CONTINUE UNTIL THE END.
TOMATOES AND HURRICANES LIABLE
Rive. IrI Hicks Says Venus is to Rule
During Month and is Liable to Make
Bad Muss Of 1t - Heavy Electric
al Displays.

May is to be a stormy month if the
predictions of Rev. 1rl Hicks come
true The month is to start out bad
and with but little let up to continue
so until the end of the month. The
first week is to bring many active and
dangerous storms. Later on in the
month hurricanes and tornadoes are
ticketed to be flying loose and one is
liable to bob up or down, as the notion
strikes 1T, at minutes notice.
The prediction is as follows:
1.-THE storm diagram shows that a
Venus period of disturbance is central
on May and that its disturbing pow
err lasts until near the end of the
month This means that all the regu-
lar and reactionary period, until the
middle of the month, will be prolong-
ed and intensified by the Venus, in
tluence.
Without modifying causes I'M
known to us, the first week in May
will bring many active If not danger
GUS storms. The Vulcan, Mercury and
Venus. influences all combine to rem
der this danger period. The Vulcan
and Mercury periods are central, to-
gether on the third and the Venus PEI
Rod is central on the fourth. About the
first to third look for change to very
warm, starting in the west and spread.
ing eastward. The barometer will fall
to very low readings and from about
/ the third to sixth violent storms will
pass eastwardly over most parts OF
the country.
This Is a time when tornadoes are
very probable, making it wise to heed
all indications of coming storms, and
taking such precautionary measures
for safety as may be reasonable or
practicable. Heavy downpours of rain
and hail, with great electrical displays,
will most likely attend these disturb
ances. Behind these storms, look for
high barometer, west winds and gales,
and sudden change to very cool. Frosts
need not surprise any in all central
to northern sections of the country.
Il Reactionary storm conditions will
return on the Sth, 9th and 10th, bring.
ing return of high temperature, low
barometer, great humidity, and more
storms of greater or less violence and
danger. All through this part of May
!, the solar focus is central along the
middle states, extending east and west
and daily cycles of heavy thunder and
rain storms often occur for many sue
, cessive days, eliminating in wide
and sweeping series of storms Such
will probably result at this reactionary
period, lasting perhaps into the regu
lar storm perod which is central or
the 18th. If a sudden high barometer
develops behind the rain and thunder
storms about the 10th, regions to tn,
northward may look for frost.
About the 14th look for change tt
warmer, the barometer will again fal
to low readings, and another series o
rain, wind and thunder storms viii
take up their eastward march acros.
!, the country, eliminating on AM
touching the 14th, 18th and 18th A
this as well as other May periods, i
, the air is warm and humid, with Low
and falling barometer, no gatherin,
: storm should be allowed to approach
without careful watch on the situa
, ton. There is no use in trying t,
conceal the fact that tornado storms
: are possible and probable, and a littl
common sense watching and planning
$ or the lack Of such, will run into mat
(. tiers of life or death in such critica
moments.
Great and sudden revulsions from
warm to unseasonably cool are char
acteristics of the Venus perturba
! lions, and when these Venus period
= fall in the month OF May, the wildes
electrical storms are often followe
by surprising changes to cold an
frost. More or less of such phenom
! ena will be realized during all the frs