The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-03-10
FORECAST OF STORMS TO CROSS
THE CONTINENT.
LAST HALF OF MARCH
viii Not Bring Good Crop Weatt'e-,
Too Cold and Net-Severe Storms
After March Is-Not SO Certain as to
Where They Will Be Most Severe,

copyrighted 1907 by W. I. Foster
Washington, D. c.. March o.-Last
bulletin gave forecasts of disturbance to
cross the continent Q to Is, warm wave
8 to r. cool wave II to IS. The next
disturbance will reach the Pacific coast,
about Is, cross west of Rocky country
by close of Il. great central valleys IS
to II. eastern states rs. Warm wave will
cross west of Rockies about IS, great
central valleys IS. eastern states =. A
cool wave will cross west of Rockies
about I6. great central valleys IS, east
ern states 20.
This will be the most severe disturb
ance of the month It will follow pc
Rod of unusually low temperatures, will
inaugurate week of high temperatures
and severe if not dangerous storms. and
following it the trend of temperatures
will be downward to end of month.
Not much rainfall Immediately pre-
cedirlg this disturbance. but following it
rainfall will increase to close of March.
Last half of March will not bring good
crop weather: too cold and wet. Look
out for severe storms about March Il
and IS.
Immediately following March 9 will
come long cool wet spell not good for
crops south of latitude 40. Better not
plant corn in southern latitude till later
as the cold wet weather last part Of
March will not be favorable.
When to expect the great storms can
not be known in a large percentage of
cases, as they are Immediately con-
trolled by relative positions OF sun,
moon. earth and other major planets.
Mark my predictions that the most Sc
we're storms and most radical weather
of IGo7 will occur. not far from June II
and e6, July 10 and "a August and Il,
The equlnectial storms will occur not
far from March IS and September 10.
1t is not SO certain as to where these
storms will be most severe
The DAILY Reduction Co., at Hadley,
British Columbia, February 70. 1907.
through its manager, F. A. Ross, wrote
me highly complimentary letter from
which | quote the following: we think
it right that you know how valuable
your weather forecasts have been to Us.
They have saved us several thousand
dollars that otherwise would have been
lost. On receipt OF your advice we shut
down our works and laid in supply of
fuel. feed and provisions such as has
not been needed in this valley for fifteen
years. 1t is well that we did so, as. we
could not have operated at any time DUR
ing past six weeks, and the suddenness
with which the cold came upon us
would have left us no time to prepare
if we had delayed week. So long a
time has elapsed since the winters were
anything but mild i'll this valley that the
farmers and merchants failed to provide
and in consequence the $4,000 IN gen
eral supplies of hay, oats and -four that
we rushed in ahead of the freezing up
have been largely drawn on since trans
portation closed We appreciate your
information and wish you
everlasting success.
The great Northwest should make an
effort to collect the weather records
made by the Hudson Bay Fur Company.
These records would be very useful in
the coming severe and mild
winters OF western Canada and our own
northwestern states. Better compile
those old records rather than spend so
nn1ch money gazing at the sum- Our
earth records are now ripe for use.