Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-03-10
MARCH Will Be
STORMY MONTH
WARM AND COLD WAVES ALTER.
NATE DURING NEXT
DISTURBANCE.
WEATHER
Storm Conditions Will be Severe
About the Middle Of Month
High Temperature
Wave.

uS MdlCu llOLl Is expected TO COM
mand the weather forces during this
month. The mild balmy days that in
vite the robin and the spring birds to
come will be accompanied by storms
severe in their force and dangerous
In their effects. Foster in his pre-
dictlons says there will be bad
storm period about March IA and 10.
The complete forecast follows:
Washington, D. c., March last
bulletin gave forecasts of disturbance
to cross Pacific slope to ~, great
central valleys to II, eastern states
IL. Next disturbance will reach Pa
cif1c coast about IL. cross Pacific slope
by close of 10, great central valleys
about IA to 16, eastern states IT.
Warm wave will cross the Pacific
slope about IL, great central valleys
IA, eastern staten 16. Cool wave will
cross Pacific slope about Is, great cen
trail valleys II, eastern states 10.
This will be the most severe dis
turbance of the month and one of the
most dangerous storms of the year.
warn all my readers to be on the alert
during the time have indicated
for the passage Of this disturbance
across the continent; that is from
March 10 to 10.
l will not undertake to say where
the worst Of these storms will occur
At most these dangerous storms 10
not reach more than one locality out
Of hundred and it is not practicable,
at this time, to point out the compare
lively few localities that will suffe,,
But many lives and much property
may be saved and suffering and great
Inconvenience avoided by taking heed
of this timely warning.
This great disturbance will reach it's
central point on March IS and the
greatest effects usually occur within
two days, usually before the epoch
is reached, but at rare intervals the
break occurs three to five days away.
The best advice now practicable Is TIC
keep informed Of the location of the
low or storm center then moving east
ward across the continent The dan
ger point will be two hundred to three
hundred miles southeast Of the center
Of that low or storm center.
Tornadoes may not occur during the
passage Of that storm but advise all
to be thoroughly prepared for such
events. When the low or storm CEN
wa 10 ooO " wv ll1llO6 hol IuW SSI III
you the school children will be safer
In the cellar than in crowded school
room. Saturday and Sunday, IA and
Is, the schools will be closed. From
16 to 10 all should be on the watch
and take no risks. The weather bu.
reau can and should publish full re-.
ports Of weather conditions during
those dangerous days.
The old school of meteorologists
will ridicule these forecasts but my
readers will remember that my mis-
takes seldom occur on that kind of
forecasts. My forecasts as to the
force of the storms are at least so
per cent good. All those who have
carefully read my storm forecasts
for years past will get ready for rough
weather March Is to 20.
The equinoxes alone never cause
any dangerous storms but when these
equinoxes are reinforced by a large
number of planets magnetically con
Meeting with this celestial dynamo
then and only then may we fear great
storms near the equinoxes. Some
times the intense magnetic strain is
relieved by a great earthquake and
then the storms become less severe.
Immediately following March 4
wave of high temperatures, moving
eastward, will cross meridian 80 and
following it cold wave with rains
south and SHOWS north.
During March the three planets,
Venus, Mars and Jupiter will be Wis
ible during evenings, Venus appar.
emily nearest the sun, Mars next and
Jupiter farthest. ABOUT the dates CIV
en- for the great storms all the plan
cts save one, also the moon, will be
in magnetic touch with the earth and
the latter, through It's magnetic equa-
tor, will connect with the sun.