Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-02-03
blizzards, will follow these

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billiards., will follow these storms
causing very cold, disagreeable wealth
er from the 9Th or 9th up to about the
18th. It must be remembered that a
total eclipse of the moon falls on the
9th This fact renders it doubly more
probable that storms and seismic dis
turbances will occur on OF rear that
date.
Big Change to Warmer.
A reactionary storm period is cen
trail on the 18th and 18th On the same
days the moon is on the celestial
equator and in perigee. At this time
look for great change to warmer with
sudden fall of the barometer to very
low readings. General and severe at
mospheric disturbances with thunder
and rain southwark, and snow north
ward, need not surprise the readers on
and about these dates. High tidal
waves will also be natural and prob
able. A sudden sharp cold wave will
follow from about the 18th to 18th,
calling for comfort and safety of all
who are necessarily exposed and for
unhoused live stock. From about this
period, February to it's close, promises
to be not only disagreeable, as it usu-
ally is, but very severe, If not violent
in its storm and weather phenomena.
The regular storm period, extending
from the 18th to 20th,s having its cen
ter on the 18th, is at the beginning of
the Mercury, Venus and earth periods
with moon at last quarter and south
declination This period will be char
acterized by very low barometer, mark
ed rise of temperature and storms of
decided tropical nature. During its
first stages heavy rains with lightning
and thunder will visit most sections
southwark and central; but sudden
and violent change to sleet and snow
with blizzardous conditions from the
northwest, will develop in the winding
up stages of this period. Look for the
crisis of storm and change about Sat
urday, Sunday and Monday, the 18th,
18th and 18th, followed closely and for
several days succeeding by a general
and severe cold wave. Unsettled
threatening weather will most prob
ably continue throughout the Mercury
period
Severe storms.
\ A reactionary storm period falls on
the 22nd to the 25th. This period prom
ises in all probability to be the most
severe of the month. 1t is fully within
the influence OF the Vernal equinox Of
the earth fat the center of the Mercury
periGd and within the growing Venus
disturbance. New moon at a solar
eclipse node is on the 23rd, and moons
passage northward across the celestial
equator is on the 25th. On and touch
ing the 22nd there are more conjunc-
lions of earth, sun, planets and moon
than are often seen in the same space
of time.
About the 21st look for a change to
warmer in most western parts of the
country. The temperature will con-
tinue to rise rapidly as the warm wave
advances eastward and the barometer
will fall proportionally over the same
sections. By the 23rd high tempera.
lures for the season will have spread
eastward to the central valleys, with
| low and threatening barometer and
about Friday, Saturday and Sunday
the 23rd to 25th, violent and general
storms of rain, wind and thunder will
visit many sections as storm centers
| move eastward over the country. While
| the front, or eastern to southern sides
of these storm areas are causing trop
ical rains, with thunder, gales and pos
sible tornadoes, at the same time ris
ing barometer with sweeping billiards
of snow and sleet-pre pare for destruc
tive sleet-will be rushing eastward on
the western and northern sides of the
same storm areas. With the combin
ed influences of earth, Venus, Mercury
and other astronomical perturbations
storms differing all the way from trop
ical and tornado to boreal and biz
zardous, are apt to be in progress al
the same time, the boreal features Of
the same general storms on the wes
being separated only by the diameter
Of the storm area from The
tropical tangents of the gen
eral storm on the east. Hence, under
I these conditions, especially at this sea
som of the year. billiards may succeed
thunderstorms and tornadoes within {
few hours of time. The present is {
favorable time for such phenomena.
/ Storms for March.
AS the moon does not cross the ce
lestial equator, working northwart
from south declination, until the 25th
Z the cold following the storms of tn
22nd to 25th may be restrained ant
) modified; but it will be safe to antic1
pate marked winter storms, and sever
cold for the time of year up to the las
day or two of February.
/, A regular storm period, having 1t
center on the first day of March, vii
cause rise in the temperature in Yves
tern extremes on the 9th and 2Stf
Those who consult their barometer
will find them fuctuating and fallin
, in some sections along with rising ten
, perature, and cloudiness with othe
unmistakable indications of brewin
storms will appear as we pass fror
February into March.
SlGOuRNEY.
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