The Caucasian., 1911-07-30
WEATHER BULLETIN
FORECAST OF STORMS TO CROSS
THE CONTINENT.
THE next DISTURBANCE
Will Be Only Of Moderate Force with
Temperatures Averaging Lower
than Usual-NOt Much Rain-ToO
Cool TO Mature Corn.

copyrighted 1911 by w. T. Foster.
Washington, July 29-Last bulletiI
gave forecasts of disturbance tC
cross the continent July 30 to Au.
gust 2, warm wave % to August
cool wave 81 to August 4. This dis
turbance will cause high tempera-
ture wave, severe weather, great
fall in temperature and one of the
three rain periods of the month. But
not much rain may be expected.
Next disturbance will reach the
Pacific coast about August 3, cross
Pacific slope by close of 4, great cen
trail valleys 5 to Z, eastern sections
s. Warm wave will cross the Pacific
slope about August 3, great central
valleys 5, eastern sections 7. Cool
wave will cross the Pacific slope
about August 6, great central valleys
8, eastern states 10.
This disturbance will be of mod
crate force with temperatures aver
aging lower than usual, not much
rain, with generally too dry for
crops that mture late in the season.
Not enough heat to rapidly mature
the corn crop, and not enough mois-
ture to cause the ears to fill in good
shape. Spring wheat will continue to
be the problem and much will de-
pend on that quality of the north
western soil which enables it to hold
moisture.
Third disturbance of August will
reach the Pacific coast about 9, cross
Pacific slope by close of 10, great
central valleys II to Is, eastern Sec
tons IL. Warm wave will cross Pa
cific slope abou! August 9, great CEN
trail valleys ii, eastern sections t3:
Cool wave will cross Pacific s,ope
about August IL, great central val
leys Ii, eastern sections is.
This will be one of the three most
storm waves of August,
but as an average the month will be
more quiet than usual. Tempera-
lures will go higher than usual and
during the first part of the disturb
aLce the heat will increase the
1routh, but numerous showers are
during the last part of that
storm period and while the cool
wave is coming in.
Never before did those who handle
grain and other staple products of
he farm, plantation and orchard,
axe SO much interest in long range
weather. forecasts. This is highly ap-
oreciated by the writer, for they are
he best judges in the world as to
he real value of long range weather
orecasts. Good news to them is the
act that soon these forecasts will
'e given out much longer in ad-
vance.
A great detriment to this progress
las been that orthodox scientists in
,anada and the States take so little
interest in weather records, partic-
llarly back of 1871. Those records |
re hid away in Canada and the
'tates and hard to reach. The Can
dian and American governments
re paying out large sums of money
!, their observatories for making re-
crds of terrestrial magnetism and
ne changeable heat output of the
I'm. These records can never be of
tility in forecasting the weather.
he only true basis for knowing fu-
Ire weather is found in weather re-
Drds covering many years, and
lese are neglected by scientists who
nfortunately hold all the govern
lent offices.
Our United States Weather Bu-l
,au neglects the old records made
7 army posts and by long continued
forts of patriotic humanitarian
'ivate individuals and compiled by
le Smithsonian Institution. Many ,,
the old records made in Canada ,
e buried in Ottawa and London, .
Id to get to them is difficult. Wheh ,
i'll the Rip Van Wrinkle orthodox .
ientists wake up? When will they
op their useless fifty years obser-
ltions of the suns heat and take up !
e only true basis, the weather re-
rds covering 100 years, now lying
lie and, to them, useless.