Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-25
SAYS
HOT WEATHER
WEEKLY BULLETIN FORECASTS
HOT WAVES AND PLENTY OF.
RAlN-WoRk is RECOGNIZED.

Fosters weather bulletin promises
varied weather for the next week
or SO, including a disturbance that
will cross the continent from the west
to the east with accompanying storms.
Hot weather and plenty of rain is pre-
dicted Foster is beginning to be re-
cognized by many as one of the most
accurate forecasters in the business.
The following is the Foster bulletin in
full:
Washington, D. G., June 22.-Last
bulletin gave forecasts of disturbance
to cross continent 81 to rs, warm
wave 20 to "a, cool wave % to 81.
Next disturbance will reach Pacific
coast about 25. cross west of Rockies
country by close of 26, great central
valleys ~ to 20, eastern states 30
Warm wave will cross west Of Rock
les about 25, great central valleys 81,
eastern states 20. Cool wave will
cross west of Rockies about %, great
central valleys 80, eastern states July
e.
This disturbance will be Of great
force during its entire movement
across the continent from the Pacific
to the Atlantic coasts and dangerous
storms will probably develop at sew
ecal places along Its line of eastward
diff.
The highs and lows of this disturb
arce will be very large and therefore
will affect the whole continent but
their centers are expected to move
eastward near parallel 40. The wealth
e. will be unusually hot on most parts
of the continent before the center Of
the low passes and unusually cool
after IL has gone by.
This disturbance viii bring rains
tic onefourth or one-thiri of the Uni
ted States and Canada cast of the
Rockies AMI some Indications of the
coming drouth will be seen in the sec
lions where rains do not fall from this
Storm wave.
About date of this bulletin and I'M
mediately following June % very
warm and stormy weather may be
expected but not much rain till the
approach of the next storm wave at
fects the weather.
Next bulletin will give general fore
casts of July crop-weather. July and
August are the corn making months
and will largely determine what the
corn crop Of 1907 will be.
The Chicago Drovers' Journal has
an immense circulation in the great
central valleys and is an authority
among agricultural and live stock in
terests. In its issue of June 6 1t edi-
torially says: IF the United States
weather bureau cannot explain ma
lures freaks, w. T. Foster. the long
range forecaster of Washington, D. c.,
can. His theories should carry con
siderable weight for he has been very
successful in predicting weather con-
ditions this spring, even for month
ahead Of time. Readers who have fol.
lowed the Foster weather bulletins
know that all through the months
of April and May he has forecasted
the conditions almost perfectly. The
people are not ready to receive long
range weather forecasts as an absolute
surety, but when forecasters are as
successful as Professor Foster 1t will
be but question of time when more
people will look to these for guidance"
The Minneapolis, Minnesota. Pro-
gress, in a recent issue says: "For
real explanations Of weather changes
read Fosters forecasts. The weather
bureau seems afraid to recognize his
work.