The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-10
WEATHER BULLETIN
FORECAST OF STORMS TO CROSS
TIE CONTINENT.
ABOUT. CHRISTMAS TIME
Cloudy and Threatening Weather
Anticipated-Dec. f2 to 20 Will Be
Radical with All Changes Kaown
to the December Calendar.

copyrighted 1911 by w. Il. Foster.
Washington. Dec. 9.-Last bullett
gave forecast Of disturbance to cross
the continent Dec. II to t5. warn
wave 10 to II, cool wave i3 to II
This will cause temperatures to av-
erage above the normal for this
month and the storm wave will be
Of greater than usual force. Not
much rain or snow.
Next disturbance will reach the
Pacific coast about Dee. l6, cross the
Pacific slope by close Of II. great
central valleys lS to 20, eastern see
tlons u. Warm wave will cross the
Pacific slope about Dee. i6, the great
central valleys fS, eastern sections
I20. Cool wave will cross the Pacific
slope about Dec. 10, great central
valleys q, eastern sections 23,
This will be very much like The
preceding disturbance except the
cool wave for this last storm will
be cold wave and the precipitation
will be greater than for the preced-
ing. In northern sections the cool
wave will be somewhat Of blizzard
and considerable snow may be ex-
pected.
Dec. IL to 20 will bring radical
weather. During that period about
all kinds of weather known TO the
December calendar may be expect
ed. That will not be good time for
outdoor affairs. The week centering
on Dec. 22 will be cold, but better
for Christmas preparations than the
week centering on Dee. rs.
Some errors occurred in the No
vember forecasts. but as whole
they were good. am able to prom
Use with confidence q surprise for
the best friends of my weather
work. improvements have been
made all along but very slowly. The /
work has been immensely tedious. |
But we are in sight Of such perfee-
tions as will silence the tongues OF I
our critics and astonish the very
best friends Of our weather work. !
Probabilities seem to suggest un-
favorable weather for the great GEN.
tral valleys in the States for Christ
mas. Probably the storm will have
passed the central valleys Of Can
ada before Christmas. But at least
an unusual amount of cloudy and
weather is promised
about Christmas time from the CEN
trail parts of the great central val
leys eastward.
The United States Weather Bu-
reau has placed one Of its 7-foot
glass outline weather maps in the
union depot at Washington. This
map is similar to the one in the Chi L
cago Board of Trade. Every morn
ing weather bureau expert goes to
the maps and records on them with
cfayons the weather conditions for
''fe States and Canada. That il =
capital idea and those maps are the
best ever. They surely give the Z,
present weather conditions in excel
ent form, but If you want TO know !
about future weather read Fosters
weekly weather bulletins and his :
weather charts. We could
not do without the United States
Weather Bureau: il makes excellent
ecords Of what the weather has !,
,een and we must have those re-
'ords in order 10 foretell. coming
Weather events. =
The Bard bill, introduced in Con- :
.ress some years ago. proposed 10
lonate 100000 10 whoever discov-
rs The causes Of our weather
hanges, and natures a system Of !
0ng range weather forecasts Of (
standard. or course Chief
loofe opposed the bill. The chief Of
he Austrian weather bureau wrote
letter opposing the bill and saying al
hat no being except God Almighty Fp
onld comply with The terms of the C.
III. ! had something to do with al
that bill and will say h
hat whoever complies with its IL
srms will be the greatest benefac- b,
or OF the human race the world has Ic
yer produced. To do so is my am to
ltlon and | believe the goal will be W
cached during 1912, after Sc years
I intense study. cl
| am still advising the farmer and oi
lanter That this is not good time
J sell grain and cotton. | might be "
listaken, but my calculations of fu- tn
Ire weather indicates that this is
BOD time to wait Better go hunting r.,