Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-19
SUSPEND THAT
PLEASURE PARTY
PROF. FOSTER PREDICTS RADI-
CAL SEVERE STORMS WHICH
WILL LAST UNTIL MARCH "a

Cease to plan and pleasure outings.
Prudence dictates that all excursions,
pleasure parties and voyages be post
poned till after March 24,' says Prof.
W. T. Foster in his latest weather bull
letiA. He has the kindness to add,
however. "althoush net one In a hun.
bred thousand will be inconvenienced
BY these coming severe storms.
Following is the complete bulletin
Washington, March 16:--Last bull
letin gave forecast Of disturbance to
CROSS continent IA to Is, warm wave
IS to II, cold wave 16 to 90. Next dis
turbance will reach Pacific coast about
Is, cross West Of Rockies country by
close of 10, Great Central Valleys 20
to o. Eastern States %. Warm wave
will cross West of Rockies about 10,
Great Central Valleys TO- Eastern
States %. Cold wave will cross West
of Rockies about 81, Great Central
Valleys %, Eastern States rs.
Storms Will Be Here.
This disturbance will close one of
the most radical storm periods of the
year, and will have extended from 13
to "a. The storms will be unusually
severe about and Immediately follow
ing March 16, with probability of des-
tructiye disturbances. Prudence die
tates that all excursions, pleasure part
les and voyages be postponed until
after March "a, although not one in
hundred thousand will be incon-
fenced by these severe storms.
1t is not practical at this time to
definately locate these severe weather
events. l give the dates on which the
disturbances are expected to reach any
part of the continent, as they move
eastward, and on these dates you
should be on the lookout for squalls.
These storms may put on their great
est force little before or little after
they reach your place.
The storm center is expected to ex-
tend along the Mississippi, not far from
Is; west of that day Of two earlier;
on north and south line running
through Fittsburg about Is and on the
Troy meridian not far from 10.
Following this disturbance great
fall in temperature is expected, result
ing in a cold wave north of 3S and a
cold wave farther SOUTH This cold
wave will make bad crop weather in
Southern states and corn should not
be planted there till these low tempera-
lures have past.
Crop weather OF the coming season
will be the most important season
since that Of 1901. You can not rely
on guessing on the weather; you would
casts will be correct at least two times
out Of three. The only safety lines In
taking my forecasts as a guide for
planting, sowing, harvesting and feed
ing and caring for the stock.
Drouth Years.
i No period of eight years passed that
does not Erfng crop failure for each
/ of the cereals, and if farmers and plant
ers would make it a rule to hold large
part Of their crops each year. they
would succeed in obtaining the high
prices that always come with the crop
failure years, The very large circula-
Etion Of my weather bulletins has had
some effect and more of the crops,
particularly cotton AMI corn, are held
over more now than a few years ago.
All crops do not usualry fail the same
year Wheat is often good when corn
| fails, and when cereal fails north it
| is often good south.
| When drauth occurs on the high
lands it is usually wet in the lowlands
and the reverse is true. The high
lands includes the Rockies, the Allie
ghanies and the ridge between the Miss
issippi and the Red River of the North
| valleys. The valleys of those two
rivers constitute the lowlands of the
Mississippi valley. 1t will be safe to
predict wet weather in the high lands
at the same time