The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-02-24
FORECAST OF STORMS TO CROSS
THE CONTINENT.
THE next DISTURBANCE
Storms Severe Not Far from Feb. 2o
Temperatures Will Be Extremes IN
March-Where Rainfall Will
Be Dehcient-A Squint Into
June and Other Months.

copyrighted, 1907, by w T. Foster).
Washington, Feb. 23.-Last bulletin
gave forecast of disturbance to cross
continent 25th to March I, warm wave
ID to 28, cool wave 27 to March 5. Next
disturbance will reach the Pacific coast
about March 2, cross west of Rockies
country by close of s, great central val
leys to $ eastern states 7. Warm
wave will cross west of Rockies about
March 2, great central valleys a. eastern
states f. Cool wave will cross west OF
Rockies about March IS, great central
valleys 7, eastern states g.
The principal feature of this disturb
ance will be the great high temperature
wave that will accompany it and which
will bring about the only springlike wea-
ther of that month and the highest tenn
peratures of March From about March
S to end of month trend of temperatures
will be decidedly downward, fluctuatlng
of course. but more down than TIP.
Immediately following February "a
will come great high temperature wave
cassing the warnlest weather of this
montl3. The storms will be quite severe
not far from Feb. 29, with great ex-
trenes of temperature
expect more cool weather in March
than usual north of parallel 40 and more
| warm weather than usual south of that
| line. Indications are that rainfall Will
| be deficient in western Texas, Missouri
| Kansas. Nebraska and western Iowa, II
| all the section south of the Potomac and
east of Nashville. Elsewhere rainfall
will be from about to above normal
Most rain near line drawn from Troy
N. Y, by way of Pittsburg, Chicago, Pc
oria. ST Louis, Cairo and Memphis
Middle and South Atlantic states Will
be deficient in moisture.
| Most severe weather of March may
be expected near I, 7, IS and go. JUNE
will depart from its usual quiet feature!
and adopt more strenuous methods Jul,
usually quiet weather month-wll
be greatly stirred UP by severe storms
| and radical weather changes Angus
will bring tropical hurricanes on til,
seas bordering on Our Southern coast
| and severe or dangerous storms on tn
continent.
| The Redding, Cal, Searchlight says
"Foster's weather predictions are tn
most dependable weather forecasts tha
are available and great many peopl
throughout the country are governed b,
them"
The House committee On agriculture
expenditures ripped Chief Moore of tn
weather bureau up the back because h
seems to have diverted the appropriate
made for five observatories all to on
observatory at Mount Weather, out i
the Virginia mountains and known a
the weather bureau summer resort Ih
committee developed that $I6I,oo hav
been expended on Mount Weather an
that Chief Moore is trying to expen
100000 more 1t was also develope
that one-third of all appropriations fo
general expenses OF the weather burea
| is being applied to Mount Weather, til
item of furnishing the latter with cal
| pets. blinds. furniture, etc, being NOR
: than $1,000. For stationery, fuel an
miscellaneous Mount Weather got abot
$I2,ooo out of $4,000 appropriated fc
| the whole country. The Smithsonia
weather records, covering forty Or MOI
years and costing millions of dollars, i
idle in the weather bureau vaults, III
usable because they are not even il
dexed, not reduced to conditions for SC
E entific research, while only $4,000 {
that Mount Weatersexpenditure woul
put those records in condition to be use
;, in weather Investigations.