The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-29
July STORMS
ARE PROMISED.
What Hicks Says is in Store for US
During the Coming Hot
Weather
Month.
STORM ON THE FOURTH
Celestial Fireworks May be Expected
About That Date With
Cooler Days
Following.

Hicks, the weather prophet, offer
ed variety of meteorological con-
ditions during the month of July
which will be ushered in next Fri
day Storm periods, especially are
to be much in evidence. His prog
nostications are as follows:
A regular storm period, central on
the 4th, covers the second to the sew
enth having moon in perigee on the
third and new moon at extreme north
declination on the sixth. Mercury,
Venus and earth, all extend to this
period with more or less perturbing
power. At the beginning of this
period look for decided rise of TEN
perature and fall of the barometer in
western sections. From the third to
seventh these conditions will gradually
move eastward across the country,
growing into a warm wave, and at
tended, on and touching the fourth,
fifth and sixth, by vicious storms of
thunder. wind, rain and possibly hail
and local tornadoes. The indications
are good for some celestial fireworks
on and touching the Glorious Fourth. !"
From the third to the ninth, taking
the sixth for its center Is very mark
ed seismic period. Earthquake reg
ions in the northern hemisphere, and
antipodal regions south of the equator
will be under great seismic strain at
this time, notably on, and touching
the fourth and fifth. Higher barom-
eter and cooler will follow storms
from the west.
A reactionary storm period covers
the ninth, tenth and eleventh, but the
storms of this period may center in
and eliminate on the twelfth, the
date of the moons passage from north
to the south across the celestial
equator. Westerly winds, rising bar
ometer and cooler should naturally
follow this storm period
A regular storm period runs from
the fourteenth to nineteenth, being
central on the sixteenth. Storm con
ditions, such as change to warmer
failing barometer and cloudiness, will
appear to the west early in this per-
f lCu. sdDOuLsf TIE SiAtGeulu, SEVENTEEN
and eighteenth. clustering thunder
clouds, with heavy showers and vino
will touch many localities in theil
sweep from west to east across the
country. This period will be followed
by rising barometer and cooler ali
from the northwest
A reactionary storm period, will
full moon at its center, falls on thu
twenty-first, twenty-second and TWEEN
ty-third The moon will be at extrem
south declination on the twentieth
and hence atmospheric tides na.urel
ly should flow from northerly direc
tons and prevent excessive warmth
at this period. Notwithstanding, lis
of temperature, falling barometer an
scattering thunder showers will b
natural on and touching the twenty
second. From the nineteenth to tn
twenty-fifth constitutes a seismic pei
Tod, having its center on the twenty
second. The Venus disturbance come
to its close about this period
A regular storm period cente-s o
the twenty-seventh, extending fror
the twenty-fifth to the thirtieth TIL
moon crosses the celestial equator o
the twenty-sixth, is at last quartz
on the twenty-ninth, and in perigee o
the thirtieth. Throughout this perio