The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-08-05
HOT WEATHER COMING
ProphetEHiCks Says the Past Week
is PIeasantzWeatherEC Compared
with whdtIis Coming Soon.

This section of the country has al
ready had some pretty hot weather and
many thought we would not have hot
August, but here Genes Rev. Irl Hicks,
the st. Louis weather prosuostigator,
who says we are to have scorching hot
weather during August accompanied
with earthquakes and all sorts OF dis
turbances. Here is what he says in
part about the weather for August:
A regular storm period is central on
the sixth covering the third to the
eighth. The barometer will fall to low
reading and marked mid summer storms
will appear before the center of this
period, say from the third to the fifth,
bringing severe thunder storms and
violent gusts of wind to many localities
on and touching the fifth.
A reactionary storm period is CEN
trail on the eleventh and twelfth, hav-
ing moon at greatest declination north
on the eleventh. Storm producing
causes will be at minimum at this
period with indications of sustained
high temperature, and only moderate
changes in barometric pressure. If
storms arise at this time they will prove
largely rainless and clustering with
little if any reaction to cooler.
A regular storm period is central on
the eighteenth, extending from the
fifteenth to the twentieth.
We will begin to reach a climax of
summer heat about the new moon on
the fifteenth. Marked storm conditions
may also appear about the same dates
but the elimination of the period will
come on the eighteenth, nineteenth and
twentieth. A very low barometer at
this period will indicate danger and
any ominous storm clouds that may
arise, with high temperature, humid
air and low barometer, will be warn
ing that should not go unheeded. About
this period; or at one of the following
storm periods in August, watch for re-
ports of West Indies storms, approach
ing the Gulf and south coast regions.
Coasts and open seas on the Pacific side
will not be exempt from possible
equatorial storms. Within four days
of moon on the fifteenth, seismic reports
from various quarters of the globe
need not alarm those who live outside
of positive earthquake belts. At the
windup Of this period, say about the
nineteenth to the twentieth, there is
hope of a high barometer from the
northwest with cooling winds and
respite from great summer warmth.
The mercury period being central on
the twenty first. promises a prolonged
spell Of cloudy days, with probable
tendency to drizzling rains.
A reactionary storm period is cen
trail on the twenty third, twenty fourth,
and twenty-fifth, with moons first
quarter on the twenty-third. At this
period the barometer will fall again,
the temperature will rise and threaten
ing conditions will increase into summer
storms. The outlook for diffused rains
is not without hope at this and the
proceeding period, although we do not
expect a suficiency or general rains
during this month.
A regular storm period covers the
last six days of August, being central
on the twenty-ninth. These storms
may not arrive as far north as our
southern coasts at this time; but such
a thing is possible and no section of
the south coasts exposed to such Wis
itations should lightly regard indica-
tions. This period will reach it's crisis
about Sunday the twenty-ninth, to
Wednesday, September first. If very
low barometer and wide storm areas
break inland from the Gulf and south
Atlantic regions heavy rains will deluge
the south, and lateral storms will visit
many interior localities. Within a
period of seven days, central on the
thirtieth, or from August % to Septem-
ber 3, look for seismic reports from
widely separated parts of the earth.