The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06
OF STORMS TO CROSS
THE CONTINENT.
GREAT DISTURBANCES
One of the Three Will Be Inaugurated
by High Temperature a ID Sring-
like Weather Closing With Misery
making Cold Wave and Blizzard.

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Washington, D. c., Jan. s.-Last bull
letin gave forecasts of disturbance to
cross the continent 9 to IS, warm wave
s to Il, cool wave IL to IS. The next
disturbance will reach the Pacific coast
about ID, cross west of Rockies coun-
try by close of IS, the great central val
leys I6 to IS, eastern states 10. Warm
wave will cross west of the Rockies
about II, great central valleys Io, east
ern states 49, Cool wave will cross west
of the Rockies about II, great central
valleys 10, eastern states FL.
This will be one of the three great dis
turbances of the month 1t will be inau-
gurated by a great high temperature
wave and spring-like weather and close
with a misery7n,aking cold wave and
blizzard. Weather features will begin to
grow more radical not far from January
II and from that to close of the month
no rest for those who may become weary
of strenuous weather.
The cold wave referred to will be
much like that of December FL to IS,
covering large extent of country and
very severe. The path of this January
cold wave will probably lie south Of the
December cold wave path. With and fol-
lowing this disturbance precipitation will
largely increase to end of January.
Weather features Immediately follow
ing January 5 will be quiet as compared
with the past and present month, but
still more radical than the average of
many years Generally, or over the
whole continent, temperatures of the
second week of this month will average
higher than usual and the trend of tenn
peratures will be upward until the low,
due on meridian 90 about II, shall have
passed Temperatures of the two weeks
following II WIZ average much lower
than the temperatures of the preceding
two weeks.
Newspaper rumor says Chief Moore
of the Weather Bureau is to- retire. If
true, let us hope the incoming chief will
be more fair and less prejudiced toward
some investigators than Chief Moore
has been The latter has mercileSsly per-
secuted the advocates of planetary me-
teorology while the system has steadily
gained in popularity with all the great
influences of his office and his great de-
partment against it.
Prof. Ricard, generally known as
Father Ricard, the astronomer of Santa
Clara College. Santa Clara. California,
recently published a paper discussing
weather records, and that paper says: ::
But those silent writings must be inter-
preted with no otherwise than the pages
of Holy Writ, or the metaphysics of
Aristotle Under the eye of a calm, dis
passionate, experienced commentator
they may yield prophetic knowledge of
the future with either certainty or va
rying degree of probability x * And
what is more, we have snatched from
those records an insight into the wealth
er that is to be-a problem that every
farmer of intelligence has dabbled with
and has gathered a fund OF precious in
formation-a problem that the physicist
and even the astronomers have sought
to solve, only with partial success.
Prof Ricard then discusses earth's
magnetism, its relation to weather
changes and the effects of planetary
magnetism On the earth's magnets sys-
tenn and closes by saying $50 possibly
there might be some truth after all II,
those planetary weather forecasters and
electricity-ridden seers. About sunspots
anon :"