Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-03-17
BAD WEATHER
WILL prevail
THE DISTURBANCE WILL BE Sc
WE'RE ON THE PACIFIC
COAST
FORCES
DISTURBED
Unpleasant Conditions Likely to Pre-
vail About March IL and Follow
ing That Date May be
Earthquakes

Stormy weather is predicted for the
next week according to Fosters
weather forecast the stormy condi-
lions are expected to encrcle the
earth. Especially bad weather condi
lions will prevail on the Pacific coast.
Full forecast follows:
Washington, D. c., March 14-Last
bulletin gave forecasts of disturbance
to cross continent IS to II. warm
wave IL to 16, cool wave Is to 10.
Next disturbance will reach Pacific
coast about IS, cross Pacific slope by
close of 10, great central valleys 20
to %, eastern states 90. Warm wave
will cross Pacific slope about is, great
central valleys 20, eastern states 90.
Cool wave will cross Pacific slope
about 81, great central valleys 23,
eastern states %.
This disturbance will be very Sc
we're on the Pacific slope and coast
and on the North Pacific ocean Bet
ter take no risks on the Pacific waters
till that storm shall have passed 1t
will continue to be a dangerous storm
from the Pacific coast to meridian 90
which latter it will pass not far from
March 81.
will keep well to north and the cool
wave well to south and it will average
much cooler along the middle and
south Atlantic coasts than in the
northern interior.
i A severe cold wave will follow this
storm and precipitation will increase
In Atlantic states while rainfall will
continue deficient in the interior of
the continent particularly in the
states. Indications are that it will be
too dry in the Ohio and upper Missis-
! sippi valleys.
! Immediately following March IA
very severe storms are expected all
around the earth and again | warn my
readers to be on the alert from 1G to
70 The forces of nature will be I'M
usually favorable to great dis
turbances.
While it is difficult to locate these
great storms indications are that near
March IS, at which time l expect the
storm forces to reach their greatest
intensities, one storm center will be
on the Atlantic slope and another on
the Pacific slope ard while the west
ern storm moves into the great cen.
tral valleys the eastern storm will be
moving out onto the Atlantic ocean
along the steamship routes.
An earthquake in some other sec.
ton of the globe about that time
would render our storms less danger.
Gus but l do not desire to forecast
earthquakes
My predictions for heavier rains on
the eastern part Of the continent than
in the interior for February proved to
be correct and is of some Importance
in reference to coming crops. Condi-
ton OF the soil at close of March will
have much to do with crops of 1903
Why the Delay.
! About twelve months have passed
since Chief Moore of the United
States weather bureau promised to
give out long range weather forecasts
Many were led to believe that the
weather bureau investigators had
found method by which they could
give good forecasts long in advance.
But these promises have not been full
filled. The effort to evolve system
OF forecasting based on observations
Of the sun must always fail; there is
nothing practical about it. None are
SO blind as those who will not see,
and the weather bureau officials and
investigators are determined not to
see that we must know the future of
the weather by its past. We must
base our weather calculations on OBJ
servations of the weather ana not on
observations of the sun am very
sure that the weather bureau scien-
lists will be compelled to accept my
methods: truth must eventually pre-
vail