The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-01-01
WEATHER BULLETIN
FORECAST OF STORMS TO CROSS
THE CONTINENT.
GREAT WINTER PERIODS
The Changes Which Are Likely to Oc-
cur During the Month of January
The Year Nineteen Eleven VIII Not
Be Normal Crop Season.

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! Be Normal Crop Season.
| copyrighted 1910 by w. T. Foster,
Washington, d. c., Dec. 3I-Last bul
letin gave forecasts of disturbance tt
cross the continent 3 to 7, warm wave Z
to 6, cool wave 5 to 9. This five day
storm period will begin with very warn
weather, followed by a cold wave and
stormy, including severe winter storms
1t will be one of the most severe storm
weeks rtof the month and will include
thoseSof the blizzard kind in northern
sections. From near January 5 TO IS a
very great fall in temperatures will oc-
cur and the thermometer is expected to
indicate drop of As degrees. During
those two weeks SHOWS are expected in
the Ohio valleys, New York and Penn
sylvania, but not much precipitation
elsewhere.
The next disturbance will reach the
Pacific coast ABOUT 7, cross the Pacific
slope by close of 8, great central valleys
Q to II, eastern sections r. Warm wave
will cross the Pacific slope about 7, the
great central valleys 9, eastern sections
II. Cool wave will cross Pacific slope
about 10, great central valleys II, east
ern sections Ii.
This storm wave will be very much
like to one preceding Temperatures
will not go as high and the cold wave
following will go to lower temperature
levels. Storms will continue to be fierce
and much inclined toward the blizzard
kind
Another great winter period will come
with the disturbance crossing the CONT
nent about 10 to %. Radical weather
is expected for most Of 1911. It will be
a great sunspet year and the magnetic
forces of the earth will be unusually ac--
tive. Orthodox scientists have deter
mined that these great activities on sun
and earth occur about every eight to
twelve years. They put their average
period at about eleven years, but the pc
riod is, to them, SO uncertain that they,
will not risk forecast
The cause of sunspots and magnetic
disturbances is plainly before the eyes
of every one, but the great scientists are
SO blind they can not see these causes.
These activities in the forces will surely /
cause great extremes Of weather, and
he result will be unusually good crops
on some parts of the earth and great
failures in other sections
Next year will not be a normal crop
season. Good crops have prevailed on
his continent for some years past and if
he good crops of 1911 should again
strike us, overproduction would be the
-esult and prices would go to the bot
ON. But wherever the bad crops occur
his year the failures will be extreme
nd such condition would send ouTr
train and cotton and grass products uTI
nto top prices. You may surely expet
xtreme conditions, and the only ptce
0 get reliable forecasts of those on )
Iitions will be through these bulEtins. :
The newspapers tell us that a Jacket :. :.
) on between the United States Wealth ) )
r Bureau and ths laval WeaAner Bu-l : :
eau. One forecasts Tor the land, the : :
ther for the seas, and they fAve trouble ! !
bout the boundaries. Probibly the two : 4
ill be placed under one had. s s
All competitions with Fosters wealth ! !
r bureau is breaking dgwn, and indiica- !
ons are that only oneaong range fore : :
ast system will soon occupy the field. !. =
the United States Weather :
ureau short range forecast system and !
ioster's long range system are here to
ay and will soen have no competition.
hey do not conflict with each other,
hile each spurs the other to its best
forts. 8
With the two United States weather =
1reaus united and one general long e
lnge system occupying the field, 1911 2.
,omises greater efficiency and greater i
terest in weathel forecasting than has
zer been known. I give fair notice to Y
! that important advances in forecast q
g viii come in with the new year and
at whoever remains in the field, either b
long range or short range forecasting, p
ust put to the fforit their best forces,
cir best men and Their. best efforts.
ct excelsior be the motto and who
-er can not climb must remain at the {
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