Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-03-01
HICKS ON MARCH WEATHER.
The Well Known F0recaster Promises US
Plenty of Weather During This
BIustery Month.


March will be central on the Sd, 4th
and 9Th. These reactionary storms
will culminate in high temperature,
low barometer, with rain and high
winds on and touching the 9Th, end
ing in snow storms over much of the
country to the northward. The mer-
curry disturbance being central on the
7th, the probabilities are that con-
tinued cloudy, threatening, sleety
conditions will continue into the regu-
lar storm period following.
A sndden high barometer with quick
and severe change to boreal winds and
blizzardOus conditions may result in
the northern sections on and about
the 9Th, but rapid reaction to war
mer will set in about the 7th, followed
by falling barometer from western ex
tremes, ending III general storms OF
rain, sleet and snow during the Vul-
can storm period extending from the
7th to the l2th. Severe boreal storms
with a March cold wave need not
surprise any one from about the 11th
to the l4th.
The 10Th to the 18th will bring a
marked storm period, eliminating in
low barometer. rising temperature and
general storm conditions, ending in
wide areas of rain and snow. An
other high barometer and March cold
wave may suddenly slip in from the
northwest from about the 18th to the
18th, but it will give way as suddenly
as it comes, and the most general and
violent storm conditions of the month
will appear during the storm period
Immediately following.
This storm period is from the 18th
to the Gath being at its center on the
2lst the central day of Earth's vernal
equinoctial period, with the moon at
the full, ON the celestial equator and
in perigee. The indications are that
tropical storms and hurricanes will
reach the extreme parts of our south
country about the 10th to 22nd, not
ably on and touching the 2lst, and
that rain and high winds, turning to
snow and very cold for the season,
will meet the tropical, equatorial
storms from the northwest. A severe
March blizzard over much of the
country northward, is among the pro-
liabilities, at this period.
A reactionary storm period will be
central on the 27th, 2Sth and 29th. At
this time the temperature will rise
decidedly, the barometer will fall pro-
gressively from west to east, and
general storms of rain and wind, turn
ing to snow in the north, will pass
eastwardly across the country, all fol-
lowed by another decided rise of the
barometer, northwesterly winds and
much colder.
The public should keep in mind the
possibility of disastrous floods during
the month of March. Frozen streams
and rivers that do not break up in
February will bring absolute danger
to all localities not entirely above the
reach of such danger. The month will
not bring a maximum of cold, but
much precipitation in the form of rain,
sleet or snow will occur, with dis
agreeable fluctuations of temperature,
an unsteady state Of the barometer,
and some furious storms. A Venus
period centering near the time of the
Vernal equinox, is always an admOni.
tion that disagreeable weather and
many severe to dangerous storms AMI
other perturbations are to be expected.