Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-03-03
MARCH TO Open
With STORMS
MORE THAN USUAL WIND FORCE
AND LOCAL RAINS FOR
THE WEEK.

March will open with moderate
storms, says Weather Forecaster
Foster. Not severe storms, he says,
but more than usual wind force and
severe local rains. The weather for
the first half the weather man says
will be as follows:
washington, d. c., Feb 29.-Last
bulletin gave forecasts Of disturbance
to cross continent % to March 3,
warm wave 81 to March 2, cool wave
March l to 5. Next disturbance will
reach Pacific coast about March 2,
cross Pacific slope by close Of 3, great
central valleys to 6, eastern states z.
Warm wave will cross Pacific slope
about 2, great central valleys q, east
ern states 6. Cool wave will cross
Pacific slope about 5, great central
valleys z, eastern states g.
This will be a moderate disturb
ance, not much precipitation, temper
atures averaging higher than usual
and no severe cold weather 1t will
not be an important disturbance.
Third disturbance of March viii
reach Pacific coast about Z, cross Pa
cif1c slope by close Of s, great central
valleys 9 to II, eastern states ~.
Warm wave will cross Pacific slope
about 7 great central valleys 8, east
ern states II. Cool wave will cross
Pacific slope about 10, great central
valleys 10, eastern states IA.
This disturbance will not be of
much Importance west of the Rockies.
In that section its warm wave, cool
wave, winds, precipitation and frosts
will be moderate. About March 10,
when the low, or storm center, is ex-
pected to be near meridian 90, the
storm forces will begin to increase.
At that time the cool wave will be
crossing the Rockies and it's intensity
will begin to grow and it's cold will
increase.
On March II the storm center will
have crossed the Mississippi and
meridian 80 and from that time till It
passes Off onto the Atlantic all the
storm furies will be turned loose. Pre-
cipitation will largely increase as the
disturbance nears the Atlantic and
about March 10 the cool wave from
Manitoba will turn to cold wave and
blizzard Eastern sections of the
country will get the most severe part
of this disturbance and it will be well
not to forget it's coming
First days of March will bring Sc
we're winter storms. Not very cold
storms but of more than usual wind
force and severe local rains with
colder in Atlantic sections than far
Their west
l got reversed for the six days Of
February 10 to Is inclusive. That is
the only serious error in my fore
casts for many weeks past. These
bad breaks in my forecasts are grow
ing fewer all the time and I hope to
entirely eliminate them.
The Sabbatic Year.
According to the calculations Of
some of weather wise acres 1908 is
the sabbatic year Of the Hebrews.
That is supposed to have been a
drouth and famine year and period In
the Euphrates, Nile and eastern Med
iterranean sections. 1t is claimed
that this Sabbatic drouth year affects
large section centering in Kansas.
have taken some interest in testing
such theories by the weather records.
Of course never use such theories in
making my forecasts but l will say
that the planet Mercury has greater
influence on our weather than any
other person known cause and that
there is remarkable coincidence be.
tween this seven year period and one
of the important periods of the planet
Mercury. Mercury will largely affect
our weather this year in March, May
lime and AupIlst