Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23
FOSTER ANNOUNCES
HUGE DISCOVERY
NOW HE NOT ONLY KNOWS
WHAT THE WEATHER WILL
BE BUT WHY AS WELL
Has Found the Law That Governs All
Weather changes-Expects to Con-
vert All Scientists to the Cause OF
Planetary Meteorolosy.

Prof w. T. Foster, the Washington
weather arranger and prophet, an
nounces today great new discovery.
The last secret concerning the great
causes that produce the weather.
which was concealed from him has
been revealed. He states that all along
he knew all about things and knew
that such thing was true OF tne
weather but he never knew why.
Now he has discovered the great I'M
mutable law that governs all weather
changes, and he is prepared to tore
cast the weather knowing that ne
cant help but get 1t right.
In this weeks bulletin, which fol-
lows, he tells about this discovery and
of tina. he hopes will come from It,.
The bulletin says:
The Bulletin.
Last bulletin gave forecasts of dis
turbance to cross continent 70 to "a,
warm wave 10 to %, cool wave ~ to
&c. Next disturbance will reach Paci-
fic coast about 26, cross west OF
Rockies country by close Of 81, great
central valleys 20 to 80, eastern states
81. Warm wave will cross west OF
Rockies about 26, great central valleys
%, eastern states 80. Cool wave Will
cross west Of Rockies about 20, great
central valleys 81, eastern states Nov.
u.
This disturbance will belong to a
period of low temperatures and while
the warm wave will bring tempera-
lures only little above normal the
cool waves before and after the warm
wave will go to quite low degrees
probably resulting in moderate cold
waves. Temperatures will go most TIC
extremes along line from Texas tc
Maryland with higher relative aver
age in southern Ohio than elsewhere
4 Frosts will go into Texas, Ohio, Mary
4 land and along that line rs to II.
With this disturbance not much rair
may be expected north of the Ohio
4 and Arkansas rivers and between the
i Alleganies and Rockies. Most rain will
i occur further south and east. Abou
| Oct. 20 a cool wave will be progress
/ ing eastward through the central val
], leys. followed by warm wave tina
will reach meridian 80 about %.
NO Real CONFUSION.
E New readers of my forecasts ar
confused by the cool waves, warn
waves and storm waves which, t
them, seem to overlap in mixed COZ
fusion. But if the descriptions c
S these weather waves are read sepa7
ately and traced on the map it wi
be seen that each weather event
!, kept distinct from the others and thu
: the warm and cool waves alternate
e following each other regularly. Ever
:, warm wave is followed by COZ
: wave and every cool wave by war;
a wave and that is the way the for
, casts run. The warm waves averas
little less than days apart and tt
v cool waves the same.
There is shorter cycle of agout
: days as an average That is If it
warmer on the list IT. will probably
D. warmer again on the 4th, etc. But ;
. these three days changes are, as {
"a average, small and unimportant {
not forecast them but forecast on
n the 3day averages and the cd;
a storm waves which are from 5 to
days apart.
Will Furnish Weather Charts.
" will soon furnish the newspape
with my weather charts During Al
IS ust of this year found the last hidd
secret of weather changes. For t
- years I have known all the causes
~ weather changes but the law that &c
ems the change from one cause to 9
a. other and from one earth channel
or another has baffled me for fife
aet years and therefore l could not p
70. vent the occasional errors that ha
a occurred in my forecasts. Last A,
y. lust found that law and the basis of
be Is the well known fact that cure
u- Of electricity developes magnetism
,e, right angles.
M At the end of July 1906 had sent
ed 35 meteorological sci ,ntists. incl
ny ing weather bureau professors,
er charted forecasts for s months a
an had made an average Of about 6S j
Is cent good. was trying to convir
lthesa scientists against their will