Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-01
COOL " EA I 4 { R.
PREDICTED FOR
OCTOBER
WARM AND COOL WAVES WILL
SUCCEED EACH oTHER-sToRMs
OF INTENSITY AND FROST
SAYS FOSTER

roster III MS weather preulCClOuS
for the next week promises a con-
tinuation Of the present cool weather.
Cool weather with increased preci-
pitation will follow Immediately after
September 2S and the weather feat
ures will be of unusual intensity. Five
cool and five warm waves are pre-
dicted for the month of October, three
of each are expected to be radical in
their nature, and the cooler waves
during the first week of the month
will as cool as we will get during the
entire month. The regular forecast
follows:
Washington. D. c., Sept. 2s.-Last
bulletin gave forecasts of disturbance
to cross continent q to Oct. 1, warm
wave 26 to 80, cool wave 20 to Oct.
3. Next disturbance will reach Paci-
fic coast about Oct. 3, cross west OF
Rockies country by close of 4, great
central valleys to T. eastern states
s. Warm wave will cross west Of
Rockies about Oct. 8, great central
valleys 5. eastern states T. Cool wave
will cross west of Rockies about Oct.
6, great central valleys s, eastern
states TO-
The important features of this dis.
turbance will be the incoming Of a
great warm wave that will continue a
week or more accompanied by gen.
orally dry weather and storms Of more
than usual severity. Very cool wealth.
er will precede the disturbance, but
the cool wave following it will not go
to low temperatures.
I am expecting five warm waves
a. II H., Nh M
that the first week of the month will
bring as low temperatures as will oc
cur during the month after the first
few days. The month will bring three
radical warm waves and three radical
cool waves The warmeits periods will
come not far from S, II and %, and
the coolest near 8, IA. and %. Frosts
will go far southwark at each Of these
coolest periods and killing frosts will
probably reach the cotton belt about
Oct. rs.
Very cool weather with increased
precipitation is expected Immediately
following Sept. 49, and all weather
features about that time will be OF
more than usually intensity
The crops are made; the farmers
and planters know about what the
prices for grain and cotton will be-
The weather will continue to have
some influence on the prices Of these
cereals but the great spectators Will
not hereafter permit the weather tc
have complete control of these prices
Wheel will probably hover around 81
corn between so and 60 cents Chicago
markets. and cotton IL to IL on the
New Orleans markets. That Is good
enough The periods of bad and good
weather that may be expected dur
ing the fall and winter will cause
fluctuations above and below these
prices and therefore the weather will
continue to be the most interesting
subject in relation to the great com
mercial interests in the buying and
selling Of the cereals.
Science Notes.
Flammarion. the noted French as
tronomer, who has had so much e
say about the canals of Mars, declares
there is no Science in the pretended
weather forecasts of the European AM
American weather bureaus. He says
that the laws of movements u
weather changes are not known Il
those weather bureaus and therefore
their forecasts are mere guesses.
But meteorology is progressing
The orthodox scientists recognize ;
relation between our weather anf
the sunspots. the activities of ON
earth's magnetic system and the au
rora. They also recognize that tbs
sun, moon, earth and planets arc
great magnets and that through mag
netism the sun affects the earth's mag
netic forces. One step more and they
will see that the planets, including
our earth, affect each other magnett
cally and then one more step will
bring them to realize that magnetism
is the moving force in our weather
changes; then, not till then. they viii
have science Of the weather.