Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-03-24
april TO BE A
WARM MONTH
GOOD FOR THE FARMER, PLANT
Err, TRUCK RAISER AND
ICE MAN.

The weather forecast by Foster Is
sued this week, states that the next
disturbance will reach us about March
26 with the usual warm and cold
waves. Much rain will fall, says the
prognosticator, and temperature will
average lower than usual. The COM
plete forecast follows:
Washington, D. O., March 81. Last
bulletin gave forecasts of disturbance
to cross continent March 10 to 90,
warm wave Is to %, cool wave 81 to
25. Next disturbance will reach Pa
cific coast about "a, cross Pacific slope
by close of rs, great central valleys
rs to %, eastern states 30. Warm
wave will cross Pacific slope about "a,
great central valleys 26, eastern states
%. Cool wave will cross Pacic slope
about 81, great central valleys 20,
eastern states 81.
During passage of this disturbance
across the continent from the Pacific
to the Atlantic the temperatures will
average lower than usual and rainfall
will be above the average of month,
particularly in the eastern states and
the east Of Rockies northwest.
This disturbance will follow north
ern cold wave and from about four
days before the low reaches you to
about four days after It passes you q
great rise In temperature NAV be ex-
pected. For meridian 80 this great rise
will occur from % to 81; earlier west
Of that lines. later east of It.
Immediately following Fl will come
great fall in temperatures accom-
panied by rains south and SHOWS in
the far north. This cold wave will be
particularly severe in Maryland, Dis
trict Of Columbia and the middle At
lant1c states where tender plants are
liable to damage.
I am expecting April to be a warm
sluggish month in all of the United
States south of parallel 40 and in Mex
1co Not 80 warm in Canada, Montana,
Oregon and Washington. The weather
Of April will be unimportant as to
storms; not enough danger in 1t to
awaken the sleepers. But 1t will be an
ideal month for the farmer, planter,
truck gardener and Ice man. After the
rough weather Of March is all in ma.
ture appears to have planned rest
for man and a paradise for the vege-
table world This condition, however,
will not continue throughout the sea.
son.
investigation.
Never before were there SO many
scientific investigators trying to find
the causes OF weather changes and to
formulate system Of long range
weather forecasting. Never has long
range forecasting attracted 80 much
attention as it will in the near future.
The U. s. Weather Bureau has at
work a half dozen Of the best scien-
tific men 1t can procure and European
scientists and governments are wide
awake to the Importance Of the sub.
ject. Never before did scientific men
30 persistently strive to find the Sc.
crets of nature in weather making.
The great majority of these scien.
lists are looking to the sun as start
ing point, particularly to sun spots.
sun heat and the suns output of mag.
netic forces. A few half scientists
base their work on the moon without
comparing weather records with moon
positions. My work alone is compre-
hensiye. I compare the long weather
records with the relative positions of
sun, moon, earth and major planets
and I will come out aheal in this
great contest.