Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-05-08
WARM WAVE COMING
PROPHET w. 7. FOSTER SEES j
SPELL OF PLEASANT Wealth.
Err FOR IowANs
Predicts Next Disturbance to Cross
Great Central Valleys Between May
9 and May 1o-Will Be Featured by
Good Crop Weather.

warm weather is coming. This
statement must be credited to W. t.
Foster, the Washington, D. c., wealth
er prophet, who is reputed as a truth
ful prophesier OF warm waves, cool
waves, disturbances and peaceful ac-
tlv1tles Of the elements According to
Foster the next disturbance is due in
these parts between May 8 and May
10 and with it will come a long spell
OF warm weather of great Importance
to agriculture along parallel 40.
Fosters Weather Bulletin,
Last bulletin gave forecasts Of dis
turbances to cross continent May to
4, warm wave to 8, cool wave May
4 to 8. Next disturbance will reach
Pacific coast about May 6, cross west
OF Rocky country by close of 7th, great
central valleys to 10, eastern states
May IL. Warm wave will cross west
OF Rockies country about 6, great cen.
trail valleys 8, eastern states 10. Cool
wave will cross west of Rockies about
8, great central valleys May II, east
ern states, 18th.
The most important feature of this
disturbance will be the great change
from a long cool spell of poor crop
weather to long spell of warm and
much improved crop weather. This
change will be of great Importance to
agriculture along and north Of parallel
40. Cooler than usual just before
the storm center comes and not as
cool as usual following it. This dis
turbance will not be of much force till
it reaches the eastern states; then it's
features will have greater intensities.
An unusual number of storm cen
tiers will cross the continent in May
but most of them will be of little force,
causing moderate rains in the eastern
and southern states. Another of these
will reach the Pacific coast about 9,
cross west of Rockies country by close
of 10th, great central valleys IL to 10,
eastern states, A. Warm wave will
cross west of Rockies about 8, great
central valleys IL, eastern states 13.
Cool wave will cross west of Rockies
about IL, great central valleys IA, east
ern states, l6.
This disturbance will be of greater
force than the preceding, its warm
wave will go higher, it's following cool
wave to lower degrees and the latter
will be much more extensive. All fea-
their greatest intensities in the eastern
states and province and rains will In.
crease in the eastern and southern
states, while the middle northwest will
begin to show indications of coming
drouth Weather events will not be
| important Immediately following May
| S, except the Improvement in crop
weather conditions.
Science Notes.
The Minneapolis, Mimi, Progress, a
literary paper and a patron of the
sciences, always ably edited, truthfully
says:
when the writer was at school the
senseless theory was taught that the
earth was molten mass, with paper
| like shell and that earthquakes and
volcanoes were caused by disturbances
of this molten interior The failure Of
modern science in meteorofogy is par
alleled by that Of its theories regarding
earthquakes These theories fail to ex
plain Scientists must ultimately come
to the recognition of electric and mag
netic forces outside of the earth, due
1 to planetary influences, as the rea
cause of earthquakes as we'll as me
neurological changes. The same cause
| that produces sunspots and tornadoe!
evidently produces earthquakes. Thu
disturbances at Vesuvius and Sal
Francisco were not related, but evi
IDENTIFY were produced from the same
cause"