Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1908-02-18
COLD WEATHER
TO PREDOMINATE
NEXT DISTURBANCE WILL PROB.
ABLY BE FELT AT END
OF WEEK.
| VARYING CONDITIONS
temperature for the Coming Week to
Tend Toward the Colder
Much Precipitation
Anticipated.

me weather predictions for the
coming week are full of anticipation
of colder weather Beginning about
Feb Is, high temperature wave Is
supposed to be about midway of the
continent. This wave of high tenn
perature will in all probability not be
warm wave and will be followed by
cold weather. The complete forecast
follows:
Washington, D. c., Feb. 15.-Last
bulletin gave forecasts of disturbance
to cross continent IA to Is, warm
wave Is to II, cool wave 16 to 20.
Next disturbance will reach Pacific
coast about 20, cross Pacific slope by
close of 81, great central valleys % to
"a, eastern states 25. Warm wave will
cross Pacific slope about 20, great
central valleys %, eastern states "a.
Cool wave will cross Pacific slope
about %, great central valleys 25,
eastern states 27.
This will be a general storm averag-
ing much colder than usual. The
warm wave will bring only moderate
temperature while the cold wave pre-
ceding and following the storm cen
ter will cause unusually cold weather.
This disturbance will cause more than
the average precipitation of the
month, much of which, in northern
states, will be snow.
The force of this disturbance will
not be so great as in the disturbances
about first of February, but radical
weather may be expected during bal
ance of the month.
About and Immediately following
February Is a high temperature wave
will be midway of the continent and
moving eastward A severe cold
wave will follow that warm wave, the
storms will be severe, with rains, fol
lowed in northern sections by SHOWS.
A great warm wave is expected
about first Of March. General fore
casts of March weather win be given
in next bulletin.
The Mighty Jupiter.
Do you remember the great storms
on land and sea that occurred during
the last days of January and first of
February? And do you remember
what said about them in my bulle.
| tin dated November 2, or about three
! months before the tornadoes, hurri.
canes and other weather extremes de.
stroyed SO much property and SO
many human lives?
The great planet Jupiter did it all
On Jan. 80 the earth passed between
that planet and the sun, through the
| powerful electric current that con.
meets Jupiter and the sun In my bul.
letin of November 2, I said, "Take the
week of which Jan. 20 is central day
and you will find radical weather ex.
| tremeS, including dangerous storms
and earthquakes"
Why are weather bureau officials So
slow to see these facts? Not to know
that they are facts argues astrono
mers and meteorologists unworthy OF
being known Whenever. in the past
the earth has passed between sun and
| Jupiter in December or in January
great storms, very destructive, have
occurred during that week. The rec
ords prove this to be true and therein
is the true basis for long range wealth
er forecasts.
But the weather bureau officials
not being original thinkers, go off in
to objectionable and silly errors when
they undertake to Investigate plane
tary influence on our weather. They
do not know how to investigate be
cause they are not scientific.
Not one Of the weather bureau pro
fessors has ever correctly investigat
ed the new moons influence in oul
weather because they do not know
how. Their Investigations do not in
vestigate. They do not even know
i how to make correct line of normal
! temperatures.