Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-21
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COOL WEATHER
FOR few DAYS
MANY RADICAL CHANGES
ARE PERFECTED BY FORE
CASTER FOSTER.
HOT WAVE COMING
Furious Storms are ForetoId for
Furious Storms are ForetoId for
the East About the 2eth. Public
Warned to Prepare for
Changes.

Cool weather is predicted by wealth
er forecaster w. T. Foster Of Wash
ington, d. c., until the 21st, with a
hot wave following. This disturbance
will be noted for its great hot wave
which will affect the whole continent
and the great fall in temperature
which will Immediately follow. Ac-
cording to the prediction the recent
hot wave will be followed by a cool
wave which will in turn be followed
by another extremely hot ave. The
changes are slated to be radical and
to extremes in both ways.
Washington, ID. c., July 1S.-Last
bulletin gave forecasts of disturbance
to cross continent 15 to 10, warm wave
Ia to 10, cool wave IL to 81. Next
disturbance will reach Pacific coast
about 10, cross Pacific slope by close
of 20, great central valleys 81 to 23,
eastern states "a. Warm wave will
cross Pacific slope about 10, great
central valleys 81, eastern states %.
Cool wave will cross Pacific slope
about %, great central valleys "a,
eastern states &c.
This disturbance will be noted for
It's great hot wave which will affect
the whole continent and the great fall
in temperatures that will Immediately
follow it. Showers will accompany the
cool wave.
This disturbance will grow more
severe as it nears the eastern coasts
and will become a furious storm out
on the north Atlantic about July &c.
About the same time the following
storm will be severe on the North
| DaoiRo ooocfcG ii r a CT r,arf nc .I,,1v will
be cool.
About and Immediately following
July is unusually cool weather will
prevail and the storm forces will be
unusually quiet. After July % tenn
month and frequent showers will be
the rule.
The price of oats and corn have
held up fully as high as predicted in
these bulletins and the deciding crop
weather month is yet to come. Aug
ust will determine the corn crop anc
next bulletin will give my calculation:
for that month. My l~ong-expectet
monthly weather charts w~illEbe4giye1
to the newspapers apout the MIDI,
of October. The delay has been caused
by some difficult problems had tt
work out before I could consider .tht
charts good enough to withstand tn,
crucial tests.
The Garriott System.
Last bulletin mentioned the wealth
er bureau system of language weathe
forecasts which is being manipulated
by Prof. Garriott who is the weathe
bureau chief shortrange forecaster al
SO.
ST. Louis was Prof. CARROTS oil,
home when Prof. Tice Of that city wa
the principal longrangew weather fore
caster of the world. Tice promulgate,
the first system of planetary meteolc
g Icy about the year 1875 and Prof. Ii
9 R. Hicks took up the Tice system
when Prof. Tice died.
Prof. Tice discovered that the pei
; manent high barometer that cover
]. the north Atlantic oscillates east an
west at long intervals. In his publ
cations he said that when that pei
manent north Atlantic high swing
westward drouth covers the At1anti
e states and the rains are excessive i
the Missippie valleys. That has bee
the conditions this year but Prof Ga,
riott failed to tell us it was coming.
After Tice had published his sly.
TEN a French astronomer %discovere
,ne that the north Atlantic high baromete
oscillates north and south as the moe
comes north and goes south of TIL
= earth's equator but no n has publish
ed the cause of that high baromete
oscillating east and west.
q Prof Gariott should give Prof. Tic
credit for the system of longrang
n weather forecasts he is trying to us,
n Tice is entitled to the credit for h
Ia published the system in a book
years ago.
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