Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11
MUST LOOK OUT
! FOR SQUALLS
sDMoNlTIoN GIVEN BY FOSTER
FOR HOLIDAYS AND LATTER
PART OF DECEMBER
snds Warning and Says "Prepare for
the Worst"-Heavy Weather With
Blizzard Accompaniment viii be the
christmas Tune.

Look cut and prepare for squalls"
is the admonition given by w. T. Eos
ter, the weather man. Bad weather
with blizzard accompaniment is the
tune that will be played around about
December Is.
Serious weather for the holidays is
% prepare for the worst The follow
ng is the9latest weather report:
Last bulletin gave forecasts of dis
turbance across continent Z to II,
warm wave 6 to 10, cool wave to
10. Next disturbance will reach Paci-
fic coast about IL. cross west of
Rockies country by close of Is, great
central valleys IA to 1G, eastern states
Z. Warm wave will cross west of
sock:es about IL, great central valleys
A, eastern states 16. Cool wave will
cross west of Rockies about Is, great
central valleys IL, eastern states 10.
Look out for squalls. They are COM
ling with this disturbance. First indi-
cations will be a great rise in temper
ature as the disturbances approaches
from the west. Then a cloudy and
threatening atmosphere and then
great winter storm with all the varied
accompaniment of such events, includ-
Ing, in some parts Of the country,
cold wave and blizzard.
Will Not Tell All.
OF course, will not try to tell you
gof all the little variations that will
reach your section. You do not expect
me to do this. But / say, prepare for
the worst The storm is expected to
reach meridian 80 not far from Dec. Is
a little earlier west of that line,
little later east of it-and if you don't
get the bad end of that storm be hap
ny because you did not.
The United States weather bureau,
having telegraph reports several times
p day from all of this continent and
from all the countries around it, should
give us complete detailed forecasts of
this great storms at least three days
IN advance and If they fail to do so. it
will indicate that they are not earning
their salaries. | make but few errors
In forecasting great storms and the
people have a right to expect good, de-
tailed forecasts from the weather bu-
sTeau as the storms approach
Sounds Warning.
4 Again will sound the warning Of
serious weather events during the hol-
1idays., From Christmas day to New
Years day the forces of nature will be
radical in the extreme. will not I'M
)dertake to point out the exact locali-
ties and details at this time, but 1 ad-
wise you to prepare for the worst.
do not predict earthquakes for this
continent, but some sections of the
world where these disturbances some
times occur will get shake during the
holidays. / cannot give the exact date,
but near Dec. % and 80 are the most
probable dates. My readers should
watch the reports from all parts of
The world near these dates.
Expects Unusual Weather.
expect more than usual of the radi-
cal features Of weather during Deem
ber Immediately following December
s the storm forces will increase, the
. temperatures of the week to 13 will
average lower than usual and will be
followed by great rise. No much
rain or snow about that time
Ny crop weather forecasts for 1907
will be complete by end of this month.
The corn crop of this year is little
larger than calculated, but the sixty
days drouth in the corn belt came as
predicted, running the hay crop, damag-
ing The potato crop and cutting short
the corn crop in many places.