Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-04
VERY LITTLE
PRECIPITATION
COOL AND WARM WAVES TRY
FOR SUPREMACY DURING
MONTH.
A FEBRUARY THAW
FEBRUARY TIL
Cold Weather Promised for the Early
Days OF Month Are to be Fol-
lowed by Miader Climate
at the Close.

The weather predictions for the
early part Of the month have become
somewhat stpreotyped In as much as
the warm and cold waves continue to
play tag with each other and remain
here for a short while only to be
replaced with another wave Of the OPP
postte character. The next cool wave
Is scheduled for the first five days of
next week and very little precipitation
Is anticipated for the early part of the
month. Prof. w. H. Fosters complete
forecast Follows:
Washington, Feb. Last bulletin
gave forecasts of disturbance to cross
continent 80 to Feb. 8, warm wave
% to Feb 2, cool wave Feb. to ;.
Next disturbance will reach Pacific
coast about s, cross Pacific slope by
close Of Z, great central valleys 8 to
10, eastern states IL. Warm wave
Will cross Pacific slope about 6, great
central valleys 8, eastern states TO-
Cool wave will cross Pacific slope
about 8, great central valleys IL, east
ern states 1S.
This disturbance will extend the
warm spell of weather expected on the
continent from Feb. to 10 and which
W.
When this disturbance reaches the
Pacific slope, about Feb. 6, cool
wave will be passing the great cen.
trail valleys but. while that cool wave
Will not bring very cold weather, the
Meridian 80 near Feb. 1 and will
cause very warm weather. making thu
nine days average very warm.
Infy o.,
much rain during February and ex-
pect the flrst nine days of the month
to be very dry, particularly in the CEN
tral valleys. expect the driest part
OF the continent to be the section
within 600 miles Of Burlington, Ia
and the wetteat that section within 200
miles OF Washington, D. G., with
very little rain east Of the Rockies
during the first ten days of February.
The northeastern states will aver
age cooler and wetter for February
than the central Mississippi valley
and from these sections temperatures
and rainfall will shale 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 70
reach Meridian 80 not far from Feb.
II will be severe cold wave with
increasing rains south and SHOWS
north. This cold storm will be ex-
tensive, covering most of the contin-
ent and will be the beginning of a
long, cold February winter
Better get ready for that cold wave,
it looks bad. It will probably reach
the middle northwest, between Mani-
toba and the Rockies not far from
Feb. 8 and move from there to the
northeastern states.
Methods.
The greatest minds this country has
produced, including Benjamin Frank
lin, Thomas Jefferson and Joseph
Henry, continuously advised that we
must learn to know the future of the
weather by it's past and for that rea-
son they adopted the plan of record
ing, every day, the temperatures, rain
fall and barometer readings, with a
view to making these records the bas-
is of weather investigations. The
professors of the Smithsonian institu.
ton, the surgeons of the army and
navy, the signal service and weather
bureau have followed up these meth
DDS till now we have vast amount Of
those records, covering 70 or more
years. But our weather bureau pro-
fessors want to ignore these weather
records and 60 off on a new excursion
into making records of the suns mag
netic effects on the earth. Why not
work up the records we already pos
sess? Why waste time on something
new?