The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-03-29
A SHOWERY APRIL.
Hicks Promises Plenty Of Warm and Pleas.
ant Weather Between Showers.
FINE WEATHER FOR SPRING WORK.

FOR Apfll heV. III IL. HICKS, OF
St. Louis, makes these guesses
in Words and Works:
We distinctly repeat our state
ment made in March "Word and
Works" concerning the central
date of Venus equinox. 1t prop
erly belongs on April 5th instead
of May 9th, as by an unfortunate
mistake 1t is made to appear in
our 1905 Almanac, This will
throw the hrst April storm peri
cd near the center of the Venus
period, as the first regular Vul-
can period is central on the 1st,
extending to the 5th.
A marked change to warmer,
with corresponding fall of the ba-
rometer, will progressively pass
from west to east over the coun
try during the first two or three
days of April. Indications of
coming change and storms will
be apparent to observing people
over most parts of the country,
and these fore.runningindi
will culminate IN storms of rain,
wind and thunder, centering on
and touching Monday and Tues
day, the 3D. and 4tb. Any locali-
ty IN all the great storm belts of
the country will be liable to these
visitations, and wherever high
humidity and temperature, at
tend by low barometer may exist,
to that extent forceful and violent
storms will be probable. Anyone
of ordinary intelligence can tell
hours before whether his i'm med
late locality is going to fall in the
direct path of storm. The ten
dency to hail storms will be great
ly increased at this time, cop
perish, electrical cloud being al
most a certain precursor OF ap-
preaching hail. The period will
end in change to much cooler with
probable snow hurrles north
ward, and cool to frosty nights
will follow up to about the 9th.
The 9TH and 8th are central
dates on and touching which re-
actlonary changes to storm con-
dltions will take place. These
changes to warmer, falling ba-
rometer, with outbreaks of rain
and stormlness, will begin IN
western and make their transit
to eastern sections, being follow
ed by rapid rise of the barometer
and change to much cooler. Elec-
trical, Venus storms until past
the middle of April, should be
warnings of sudden changes to
cooler with frost.
A regular Vulcan storm period
extends from the | tn to the 10Th.
The changes that go before the
formation and approach of cloud
mess and storms will appear to
the westward as we enter this Pc
riod, and later, say from the 18th
to 18th, rain with thunder and
stormlness will touch numerous
localities IN their progress east
ward over the country. The Mer-
curry disturbance blending with
that of Venus at this time, will al
most surely prolong and intensity
storm conditions, so that little or
no intermission of settled weather
will follow this period before the
beginning of another.
The next storm period includes
the 18th to the Goth inclusive
The Easter full moon on the celes-
tial equator and in perlgee are
embraced in the 18th to the 10Th.
Very threatening electrical
storms, violent and possibly tor
nadic In places westward and cen
tral, 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 Sec
tions on and touching the 18th
and 10Th.
The next regular storm period
is central on the Oath, covering
the 28d TO the 27th. The barome.