Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-02-02
FOSTERS Wealth
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Washington. Feb. Last Bulletin
gave forecasts of disturbance to cross
continent 30 to Feb. 3. warm wave 2s
to Feb. 2, cool wave Feb. 1 to 5. Next
disturbance will reach Pacific coast
about 6. cross Pacific slope by close
of Z. Great Central valleys 8 to 10
Eastern States IL. Warm wave will
Gloss Pacific slope about 6, Great Cen
trail valley s, Eastern States 10. Cool
wave will cross Pacific slope about 8,
Great Central valleys IL. Eastern
States 13.
This disturbance will extend the
warm spell of weather expected OH
the continent from Feb. l to 10 and
which will constitute the February
thaw. When this disturbance reaches
the Pacific slope, about Feb. 6, cool
wave will be passing the great central
valleys but, while that cool wave will
not bring very cold weather. the two
storm waves that will reach Meridian
80 near Feb 1 and 8, will cause very
warm weather, making the nine days
average very warm.
Indications are not favorable to
much rain during February and ! ex-
pect the first nine days of the month
to be very dry, particularly in the cen
trail valleys. expect the driest part
of the continent to be the section
within 500 miles of Burlington, Iowa
and the wettest that section within
200 miles of Washington, ID. c.. with
very little rain east of Rockies dur
ing first ten days of February.
The northeastern states VIII aver
age cooler and wetter for February
than the central Mississippi valley
and from these sections temperatures
and rainfall will shade off TO about
normal
Immediately following Feb. severe
storms may be expected and thunder
storms will reach farther north than
usual. The cool wave expected to
reach Meridian 80 not far from Feb
III will be a severe cold wave with in
creasing rains south and SHOWS north.
This cold storm will be exiencive, COW
ering most of the continent and will be
the beginning of a long cold Febru
airy winter.
Better get ready for that cold wave;
it looks bad. 1t will probably reach
the middle northwest between Mani
toba and the Rockies. not far from
Feb. s and move from there 20 the
states.
Methods.
The greatest minds this country has
produced, including Benjamin Frank
lin. Thomas Jefferson. and Jo-
seph Henry, each and all con-
tinuously advised that we must learn
to know the future of the weather by |
It's past and for that reason they |
adopted the plan of recording. every |
day. the temperatures, rainfall and |
barometer readings, with view to
making these records the basis of
weather Investigations. The profes-
sors of the Smithsonian Institution.
The surgeons of the army and navy.
the signal service and weather bureau
have followed these methods till now
we have a vast amount of those rec
cords, covering 20 or more years. But |
our weather bureau professors want
10 ignore these weather records and go |
off on a new excursion into making |
records of the suns magnetic effects
On the earth. Why not work up the
we already possess? Why
waste time on something new?
Magnetism and Weather.
In a carefully prepared article on
Problems of the Weather the wealth
er bureau officials admit the basis
Of planetary meteorology as being
correct. They admit a relation be-
tween the earth's magnetism and our
weather; between the approach and
of sun and earth as causes !
Of the earth's magnetic activity. They
say that the earth's magnetism Is a
faithful index to the state OF the
sun, showing regular GIBBS and flows
Of the earth's magnetism. They say
II is very important to study the |
earth's variations. These are the ba-
sic principles of planetary meteorolo-
gy. But these Professors are babes
IN the study OF this great problem
and, therefore, do not include the
moon and planets as we'll as the
earth and sun.
But they want so years in which
to make a record Of the earth mag.
netic currents and sun radiations!
again submit that II the earths mag
netic currents cause our weather
changes. the records Of these weather
changes are vastly better for expert.
mental Investigations than the mag
netic records possibly can be. Then.
Why not use the weather records
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