The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-03-03
FORECAST OF STORMS TO CROSS
THE CONTINENT.
TEMPERATURES OF MARCH
Not Expected to Rise as the Advancing
Season Would Suggest, but Averages
Nearly Stationary-Possibly Colder
Last Week than First Week of Month,

copyrighted 1907 by w. T. Foster)
Washington, March 2.-Last bulletin
gave forecasts of disturbance to cross
the continent 3 to 7, warm wave to 8,
cool wave 5 to 9. The next disturbance
will reach the Pacific coast about s, cross
west of the Rockies country by close OF
9, great central valleys 10 to II, eastern
states IS. Warm wave will cross west
of Rockies about s, great central val
| leys 10, eastern states II. Cool wave
will cross west of Rockies about II. the
great central valleys I.3, eastern states IS.
This disturbance will come and con-
tinue in period of low temperatures.
1t will be somewhat radical on the Pa
cihc coast become less so in the great
weather to the northeastern Atlantic
states about and following March IA.
The heaviest rains will occur in the
Mississippi valleys and about the great
lakes, while the rainfall will be deficient
in southern Atlantic states, souteastern
and southwestern states and the Mis-
souri, valleys.
About March I3 and Ii a severe dis
turbance will enter the continent from
the Pacific coast and continue to be Sc
we're as it crosses the continent, causing
a great rise in temperatures
About and Immediately following
March 2 severe storms will occupy the
northern part of the Pacific slope and
the northeastern Atlantic states. ir
front of these disturbances temperatures
will range unusually high with only
/ light scattering rains.
4 Temperatures of March are not ex-
pected to rise as the advancing season
would suggest, but the averages are ex-
pected to be nearly stationary, possibly
colder last week than first week of the
month. Those storms that are some
times called equinoctial will occur no
far from March IS and 2o Easter Sun
day March 81.
!, The Chicago newspapers misrepre
s sented Prof Bigelow's lecture befor'
the Chicago University students The.
reported him as basing his proposed
long range forecasts on surspots 1ha
s was an error. He has long held that th
, suns rotation on its axis carries arount
with it elements in space that, striking
: the earth, affects the magnetic system
| of the latter, and, through 1t causes OH
. weather changes. Prof Bigelow ha
not as stated by these newspaper re
i ports, changed his base to sunspots. Ill
|, theories are finding support and he
: diligently working them out. He ha
? found weather cycles which he believe
: accord with the suns rotation, while
O believe they accord with planetary pos
y tions. His difficulty lies in the unfoi
g tunate fact that the suns rotation pe
& riod is not and probably can not b
q which | rely, are known to the hou
Therein lie the differences between Pro
Bigelow's and my theory, and the te
must come through his long range for
# casts and mine. | am about ready ft
Is the test, but | do not know when he WI
: be ready.
lie There are three other prominent tn
lie ories. Nine-tenths of the worlds m
d teorologists expect to find the basis
'e the suns changing output of heat ar
the Weather Bureau chief holds to tn
view. Another theory has for its ba
the sunspots as a cause. Garriott, Il
g. Weather Bureau chief foreeaster, hol
to present weather conditions as base.