The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-09-29
FORECAST OF STORMS TO CROSS
THE CONTINENT.
some OCTOBER FEATURES


| Copyrighted 1907 by W. / Foster
Washington Sept 2S-Last bulletin
gave forecasts Of disturbance to cross
the continent y to October /, warm
wave 20 to go. cool wave 20 to October
;. The next disturbance will reach the
Pacific coast about October 3, cross west
Of the Rockies country by close of 4, the
great central valleys ) to !, the eastern
states 8. Warm wave will cross west of
the Rockies about October 3. great cen
tra valleys 5. eastern states !. Cool
wave will cross west of the Rockies
about October =. great central valleys 8.
|eastern states 10.
The important features Of this dis
turbarce will be the incoming of great
warm wave that will continue a week or
more. accompanied by generally dry
weather and storms of more than usual
severity. Very cool weather will precede
1.-THE disturbance but the cool wave fol
lowing it will not go to low tempera-
Itures.
| am expecting five warm waves and
five cool waves III October and that the
first week Of the month Mil bring as
low temperatures as will occur during
the month after the first few days he
month will bring three radical warm
lwaves and three radical cool waves he
warmest periods will come not far from
g. y and 2S. and the coolest near 3. II
and 3. Frosts will 60 far southwark at
) each of these coolest periods and killing
frosts will probably reach the cotton
belt about October 25
Very cool weather with increased pre-
cipitation is expected Immediately toll
lowing September 2S, and all weather
features about that time Will be of more
than usual intensity.
The crops are made: the farmers and
planters know about what the prices foi
grain and cotton will be. he weather
l will continue to have some influence OF
the prices of these cereals, but the great
I SPECTATORS will not hereafter permit the
: weather to have complete control o
! these prices Wheat will probably hove1
. around $Ioo. corn between soc and 6o'
! Chicago markets. and cotton IIc to ~
L on the New Orleans market. That /
5 good enough. The periods of bad an<
y good weather that may be expected dur
{ ing the fall and winter will cause fuc
: tuations above and below these prices ant
therefore the weather will continue to b.
: the most interesting subject IN relation
to the great commercial interests Ill tn
Ibuying and selling of the cereals
SCIENCE NOTES.
= Flammarion. the noted French astron
omer. who has had SO much about tn
canals of Mars. declares there IS n
l. science in the pretended weather tore
e casts of the European and American
e weather bureaus He says that the law
: OF the movements of weather change
are not known to those weather bureau
= and therefore their forecasts are mer
- guesses.
'' But meteorology is progressing. | h
=" orthodox scientists recognize relatlo
between our weather and the sunspot
the activities Of our earths magnetl
system and the aurora. They also re
cog11ize that the sun. moon, earth an
ID planets are great magnets, and thu
through magnetism the sun affects tn
earth's magnetic forces. One step MOI
- and they will see that the planets, II
!: tcluiing our earth. affect each other mas
neticaly. and then one more. step WI
bring them to realize that magnetism
the moving force i'll our weatht
changes then. and not TIL then. the
will have , science Of the weather.