The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-05-12
FORECAST OF STORMS TO CROSS
THE CONTINENT.
THE MIDDLE0F MAY
Fluctuations and Extremes - Local
Rains in Sections and Then Dro,1ths.
Not All of This Continent Will Be
Affected by These Disturbances.

copyrighted 1907 by w. T. Foster }
Washington, d. c.. May II.-Last
bulletin gave forecasts of disturbance to
cross the continent 10 to IA, warm wave
70 to I3. cool wave II to I6 The next
disturbance will reach the Pacific coast
about IS, cross west of the Rockies
country by close of TO- great central val
leys II to 70, eastern states 20. Warm
wave will cross west of the Rockies
about IS, great central valleys II, east
ern states 10. Cool wave will cross
west of Rockies about I8. great central
valleys 20, eastern states 22.
Unusually cool weather will be the
feature of absorbing interest in relation
to this disturbance. As the low, or
storm center, approaches a moderate
warm wave will come in, but before and
after that moderate warm wave it will
be so very cool as to cause alarm for
the crops in middle latitudes. These
middle latitlldes center along parallel
81
latitudes 50.
If the reader will keep in mind that
these weather changes cross the conti-
nent from west to east in four to five
days, averaging 400 to 600 miles in "a
hours; that very large majority of the
lows, or storm centers, come from the
north Pacific ocean, pass from Manitoba
and the Dakotas, then over the great
lakes or swinging farther south abont
were they cross the Mississippi river,
or meridian 90, and that nearly all these
lows pass off the continent near the
mouth of the St Lawrence river, then,
with these facts in mind, my forecasts
can be more fully understood and ap-
preciated.
Wherever the storms may be, all
around the earth, they will assume a
more radical character about May IL,
then become more quiet till about 10,
when they will again become strenuous,
causing great fluctuations and extremes.
In the Missouri valleys and north
ward into Canada and southwestward
into Texas, drouth will begin TO alarm.
but the disturbance described above will
bring some local rains i'll these sections.
Droutl will also begin to affect the
eastern states from North Carolina
northward through New England and
eastern Canada. Some very heavy rains
will occur in the upper Ohio valleys,
South Carolina, Florida, Arkansas and
middle Illinois. Elsewhere dry.
More than half the time no tropical
hurricanes occur in the Caribbean sea
and Gulf of Mexico during August or
November. but | am expecting them
this year. The king and queen of the
solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, will
each be near their equinox during the
whole of 1907, and all weather features
will be more radical than usual. These
equinoxes of the two great planets oc-
cur at intervals of 50 years, and that is
the cause Of the recent great weather
events and seismic disturbances, sun
spots and the unusual activities of vol
canoes.
In future bulletins will give fore
casts of these expected events more in
detail We are also coming to dam
aging local drouth and all who are in
terested in agriculture should give spe-
cial attention Not all of the continent
will be affected by this drouth, but it
will affect prices of most of the cereals