The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-02-17
FORECAST OF STORMS TO CROSS
THE. CONTINENT
THE NEXT DISTURBANCE
Will Be Repetition, in Kind, of That
Which Occurred the First Dayt OF
February, but Probably not SO Severe
Followed by a Severe Cold Wave.

copyrighted 1907 by w. T. Foster.
Washington, ID. c., Feb. I7-Last bul-
letin gave forecasts of disturbance to
cross the continent I8 to 22, warm wave
II to 81. cool wave 20 to "a. The next
disturbance viii reach the Pacific coast
about "a, cross west of the Rockies by
close of IS, great central valleys 10 to
will cross west of the Rockies country
about "a. great central valleys 10, east
ern states % Cool wave will cross west
of Rockies about about p, great central
valleys March 1, eastern states 3.
This disturbance will be a repetition,
i'll kind. of that which occurred the first
days of February, but probably not 50
severe. 1t will be accompanied by a
great warm wave, will follow a long pc
riod Of low temperatures and will be fol-
lowed by cold wave and severe
weather
Temperatures will average high a;
1 this disturbance passes and not much
precipitation the last half of the month
until this disturbance arrives. Following
il rains or SHOWS will increase.
Immediately following II the temper
atures will rise but continue to average
below normal Not much rain or snow
about that time Storms will not be Sc
we're and charges will slowly approach
spring like weather,
, The next bulletin will give genera
, forecasts of March crop-weather Com
ing crop season will be harassed by eX
, treme weather events to greater exten
} than usual. and therefore producers vii
: be well repaid by foreknowledge of com
e ing weather events My success i'll fore
casting recent winter weather events IN
dicateS success in forecastng the com
: ing crop-weathe rfeatures. April Wi
: bring extremely cold weather to som
4 ! sections and il is important to know HOY
e to avoid damages to seed by plant1n
r and sowing the right crops at the rigf
g time
SCIENCE NOTES.
There are four well defined theorlt
on which it is proposed to give Ion
range weather forecasts to the public
Three Of them must fail Chief Moor
: says variations in the suns heat. Pro
- Bigelow says sun spots. Prof. Carrie
says take weather conditions all over Il
earth as the basis. Foster says changlr
= relative positions of sun, earth, mot
is and major planets. The public, f
le whom the forecasts are to be made, mtl
,e sit as a court and the best forecasts W
,e win the victory
D. The Cortland IN W Democrat say
e. Foster, the weather man, furnishes
ty pretty correct diagnosis of the wealth
e. long in advance and when he says '
g. are going to have disturbance we !
IN variably sit tip and take notice for
Id usually arrives very nearly on time.
e. Observations of sun, moon, planets a
en- principal stars are useful to navigate
to but very large part of the work do
to by the naval observatory is useless
of that it is devoted to far away stars a
it nebulae not useful to navigation. VIII
,st orthodox scientists learn that planeta
cy positions are related to sun spots,
aurora, terrestrial magnetism, wealth
health, they will have an abundance
,. work on the solar system without goi
nd beyond the ken of the sailors eye
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