Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-30
WEATHER FOR APRIL
WHAT REV. IRL HICKS OF ST.
LOUIS PREDICTS FOR NEXT
MONTH.
Makes Guess That Month viii be
Rushed in With Warm Weather and
Electric Storms - Will End With
Low Barometer.

The month of April will be rushed
in with warm weather and electric
storms, according to the predictions of
Rev. Irl Hicks, the st. Louis weather
prognosticator. The following are
Hicks predictions for next month:
marked change to warmer with
corresponding fall of the barometer,
| will progressively pass from west to
east, over the country during the first
two or three days of April. Indica-
tons of coming changes and storms
will be apparent to observing people
over most parts of the country, and
these fore-running indications will Gull
inmate in storms Of rain, wind and
thunder, centering on and touching
Monday and Tuesday, the third and
fourth. Any locality in all the great
storm belts of the country will be liza
BILE to these visitations and wherever
high humidity and temperature attend
ed by low barometer may exist, to that
extent forceful and violent storms will
be probable. Anyone Of ordinary in
telligence can tell hours before
whether his immediate locality is CO.
ing to fall in the direct path of the
storm. The tendency of hail storms
copperish, electrical cloud being al
most certain precursor of approach
ing hail. The period will end in a
change to much cooler with probably
snow flurries northward, and cool to
frosty nights will follow up to about
the sixth.
The seventh to eighth are central
dates. on and touching with reaction
airy changes to storm conditions will
take place. These changes to warmer
falling barometer, with outbreaks Of
rain and stormless, will begin In west
ern and make their transit to eastern
sections. being followed by rapid rise
of the barometer and change to much
cooler. Electrical storms until past
the middle of April, should be warn
ings of sudden change to cooler with
frost.
Aregular storm period extends from
the eleventh to the fifteenth The
changes that go before the formation
and approach of cloudiness and storms
will appear to the westward as we en-
ter this period and later, say from the
thirteenth to fifteenth, rain with thun-
der and storminess will touch numer-
GUS localities in their progress east
ward over the country. The disturb
ance will also surely prolong and in
tensify storm conditions, SO that lit
tie or no intermission, of settled
weather will follow this period before
the beginning of another.
The next storm period includes the
seventeenth to the twentieth inclu-
sive. Very threatening electrical
storms, violent and possibly tornado
in places westward and central are
possible and probable at this time.
These storms will break up into snow
squalls over much of the country
northward, and be followed by several
days of bleak to frosty weather. Late
sleet storms will visit many sections
on and touching the eighteenth and
nineteenth
The next regular storm period is
central on the twenty-fourth covering
the twenty-third to the twenty-seventh.
The barometer will fall generally dur
ing the progress of this period, and
April showers will thicken into wider
and heavier thunder storms At all
the periods in April up to this period
many parts of the country will get
more rain than for many months past. !.
Low lands in all central to western
states will have too much. Change to
fair and cooler will follow this period,
up to the twenty-ninth. On the twenty
ninth and thirtieth reactionary storm
conditions will return. April will end
with much warmer weather. low bar
ometer and series of thunder show
ers passing eastwardly across the
country.