Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-11
ANOTHER STORM
PERIOD TO COME.
COOL WEATHER AND RAINS WILL
FOLLOW IN THE NORTHERN
STATES.
DROUTH AFFECTS CROPS
Dry Weather in Sections That Former
ly Suffered From Too Much Rain
Long Range Fore.
casts

The low temperature of the past
few days is to remain until the middle
Of the week, after which the storm
period will pay this vicinity a visit.
says Prof Foster of Washington, D. G..
This storm should be here about We'd
nesday to Friday and will be one of
the most severe of the three real
storms during the month. Cool wealth
er will follow the disturbance. Crops
may be affected more from drouth
than dampness, according to Foster in
his predictions for the next week. The
complete forecast follows.
Washington, d. c., Aug.,S. - Last
bulletin gave forecasts of disturbance
to cross continent by way of the south
ern states, 8 to Is, warm wave to
IL, cool wave IL to is. Next disturb
ance will be q northern storm and will
reach Pacific coast about 10, cross Pa
clfic slope by close of IL, great central
valleys IL to IA, eastern states is.
| Warm wave will cross Pacific slope
about 10, great central valleys IL,
eastern states IA Cool wave will cross
Pacific slope about IS, great central
valleys 10, eastern states IL.
This disturbance will cause hot
weather and showers in the southern
states, moderate weather and rains.
followed by very cool weather In north
ern states and Canada. This storm will
be one of the three most severe OF
the month. Dark, threatening clouds
will be feature of it with thunder
storms and severe winds in places of
limited extent.
While 1t will be too early for damag-
ing frosts a few of the northern noun
tain sections will probably get light
frosts during the eastward passage Of
the cool wave that will reach meridian
80 not far from Aug. IT.
The greatest danger now remaining
to growing crops is probability OF
too dry weather in places where ex-
cessive rains fell during earlier part
of the season and too much rain
where drouth occurred earlier.
Immediately following Aug. tenn
pjeratures will be low in northern sec
lions and rising in south. High tenn
! peratures, moving eastward, will reach
meridian 80 in southern states about
II and in northern states about 10.
i Longranaers.
i Prof, ri R. Hicks of ST. Louis is one
OF the leading long range weather fore
casters OF this continentand he has a
large following. His work is empirical.
He does not use weather records but
has theory that the moons varying
4 positions has certain effects on the
weather and that the several planets
in their changing positions have var
louise effects on the weather.
He does not, in any way, use the
weather records of the past in his es-
1 innate of planetary effects and uses
no mathematical calculations and
therefore the system is called empiri-
A ical or mental estimating In some re-
spects his system is similar to that OF
Prof. Garriott of the weather bureau.
! Hicks looks at map OF the solar
system, catching the positions of the
sun, moon, earth and planets and then
makes a mental estimate for next
month. Garriott looks at his weather
map showing the condition Of the
weather today on the northern hemfs-
phere and then makes mental esti-
mate of what the weather will be in
the United States for the next five or
six days to come.
/ regard both Of these systems as
very defective and at best not capable
of being SO perfected as to give sat,
isfaction.
The scientific world is now slowly
abandoning all their old methods and
are beginning to look to the long
weather records as furnishing an alb
solutely necessary part of the method
that Is to be part of the system that
will give us the much needed perfect
ed Long range weather forecasts.