Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-01
A STORMY MONTH
BAD WEATHER PREDICTED BY
REV. IRL HICKS, ST. LOUIS
WEATHER PROPHET
Predicts Rains, Tornado storms, Snow
6lockades and Billiards for March
Regular Storm Period at Its Center
on March 1.

That next month will be rough and
stormy above the average is the pre-
d1ctton of Rev. Irl l.. Hicks, the st.
Louis weather prophet. He sums up
his forecasts for the month as follows:
"A regular storm period is at it's
center on March l., having Its prelim-
mary stages in western parts the last
two days in February. This period Is
near the center of the Venus disturb
ance, with moon in apogee and at first
quarter. The first three days of March
will bring low barometer, higher tenn
perature, and wide areas of cloudiness,
rain and snow, all Of which will pass
rapidly from west to east across the
country. Rising barometer and cold
westerly gales will bring up the rear
of these storms, giving cold, bleak
weather to most parts from about the
3rd to the 9Th
"Reactionary storms and storm con-
ditions will be central on the 9Th, 7th
and 9Th, almost filing the days be-
tween the first and third storm period
with unsettled, threatening and stormy
weather. The combined earth and
Venus forces are liable to cause storms
and storminess any time in this part
of the month.
The Most Violent Storm.
The regular storm period covering
the 10th to the 14th. central on the
18th, In every probability will prove
one of the most tempestuous and vic,
lent storm periods Of the month. The
moon is full on the 10th, on the equa-
tor on the 18th, and in perigee on the
18th. This is also at the exact time
annually, when the earth reaches a
crisis in electric and magnetic per-
turbations, the causes of which we
will fully enter into in our discussions
during 1906. AS early as the 10th the
barometer will fall to threateningly
low readings in western and southern
sections, the temperature will rise, at
mospheric conditions will become close
and humid, and during the 11th, 18th
and 18th violent storms of rain, wind
and thunder will sweep over many
parts Of the country. On the south
to eastern TANKS of these storm areas,
tornadoes will be a most natural result,
Watch for such developments wherever
the barometer is low, the temperature
high, with active and ominous storm
clouds gathering. On and touching
the 18th and 18th dangerous gales and
tidal waves should be anticipated along
the gulf and Atlantic coasts. Earth
quake disturbances will be reported
from various parts of the earth within
sixty hours of noon on the 18th. Att
the windup of these storms, severe
billiards., high barometer and cold
wave will rush down from the north
west. This is one of the most danger.
GUS periods to all in the open west who
have extensive live stock interests ex-
posed to the storm and weather. Re
member this!
IA reactionary storm period is CEN
trail on the 18th, 18th and 18th This
period is near the center Of earth's
equinox, with the Venus period still In
active force, and the moon, at first
quarter On and touching the 18th
and 18th, falling barometer, rising tenn
perature, cloudiness and return Of rain
and snow may be expected. Disturb
ances at this period do not promise to
be as general and severe as other
March periods, but the storms and the
change to colder following will be suf-
ficiently defined and active to cause
inconvenience, discomfort and loss to
many who give the subject no thought.
Cold, crisp weather for the season will
be the general order from about the
10th to the END.
Other Decided Storms.
4 "The regular storm period central
on the gath, and reaching from the
22nd to the 26th, is another period
which promises to bring storms Of
very decided type. During this period
we have moon at new, or In conjunc.
ton with earth and sun, on the Gath,
and on the celestial equator on the
25th. About the 22nd, In western
set in, attended by decided falling oil
the barometer. AS these conditions
advance eastward, they will grow in
larAa and intensity. cloudiness will an