The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30
HICKS Tells OF
AUGUST STORMS
St. Louis Prophet Gives His Prsdlc.
tions for the Weather Con.
ditions for the Com
Ing Month
FULL MOON ON FIRST
Threatening Weather Is Promised as
the New Month Comes In on
Account Of tho Round
81, Moon.
FULL MOON ON FIRST

full moon on the first, SO that threat
ening weather conditions will prevail
as we pass from July into August.
Decided thunder gusts will be natural
on and touching the first says Hicks,
whose forecasts for August is as fol-
lows:
A regular storm period is central on
the sixth, covering the third to the
eighth. The barometer will fall to
low readings and marked mid sum
mer storms will appear before the cen
ter 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
trial on the eleventh and twelfth, hav-
ling Noon at greatest declination
north on the eleventh. Storm produc-
! ing causes will be at minimum at this
period with indications OF sustained
high temperature. and only moderate
changes in barometric pressure. II
storms arise at this time they will
prove largely rainless and clustering
with little If any reaction to cooler.
I A regular storm period is central on
the eighteenth, extending from the
fifteenth to the twentieth
4 Climax Ct Heat
We will begin to reach a climax OF
summer heat about the new moon on
the fifteenth Marked storm condi-
lions may also appear about the same
date: but the elimination OF the
period will come on the eighteenth,
nineteenth and twentieth. A very low
barometer at this period will indicate
danger ana any ominous storm clouds
/ that may arise. with high temperature
| humid air and low barometer, will be
a warnins, that should not go unheed-
led. About this period; or at one OF
A the following storm periods in Aug
lst, watch for reports of West Indie
storms, approaching the Gulf and
south coast regions. Coasts and open
seas on tne Pacific side will not be
exempt from possible equatorial
storms. Within four days Of noon on
4 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 twentieth, there is hope
lof a high barometer from the north
west with cooling winds and respite
from great summer warmth. The
mercury period being central on the
twenty-first, promises 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
threatening conditions will increase
into summer storms. The outlook for
diffused rains is not without nope al
this and the preceding period, al.
though we do not expect suficiency
or general rains during this month.
"A regular storm period covers the
last six days of August, being central
on the twenty-nintn. These stCrms
may not arrive as far north as oll
southern coasts at this time; but such
thing is possible. and no section Of
the south coasts exposed to such Wis
itations should lightly regard indica
tions. This period will reach its
crisis about Sunday the twenty-ninth
to Wednesday, September first
very low barometer and wide storm
areas break inland from the Gulf ant
south Atlantic regions heavy RAIN
; will deluge the south. and latera
storms will visit many interior local
titles. Within a period of seven days
central on the thirtieth, or from Aug
ust % to September 3, look for seis
mic reports from widely separates
parts of the earth.
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