The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-04-02

gave forecasts of disturbances to cross
the continent March 20 to April 2, warm
wave rs to April I, cool wave Arach 81
to April 4. The prime feature of this
disturbance was predicted to be a great
high temperature wave followed by a
great fall in temperature and by week
of unusually cold weather with rains i'll
many places in the States and Canada.
In the bulletin for March 25 the rain
fall for Canada and the States for the
month of April was given. That bulle-
tin should be preserved for reference.
This first disturbance for April, as
stated above, will cause rains in many
places, but not in those sections for
which dry weather was predicted for
April The rains mentioned above will
therefore probably occur principally out
side of the dry sections mentioned in
bulletin of March rs.
The next disturbance will reach the
Pacific coast about April ?, cross Pa
cifc slope by close of 3, great central
valleys a to E, eastern sections 7. Warm
wave will cross Pacific slope about April
2, great central valleys 4, eastern sec
tions E. Cool wave will cross Pacific
slope about April S, great central valleys
Z, eastern sections 9.
The warm wave of this disturbance
will not be very warm while the cool
waves preceding and following will go
to unusually low temperatures, making
the week that will center on the warm
wave average very cool Rains may be
expected from this disturbance in the
April rain sections described in bulletin
of March IS.
The next disturbance will reach the
Pacific coast about April 8, cross the
Pacific slope by close of 9, great central
valleys 10 to II, eastern sections IS.
Warm wave will cross Pacific slope
about April 8, great central valleys 10,
eastern sections r Cool wave will cross
Pacific slope about April II, great cen
tral valleys T3. eastern sections IS.
This will be one of the most import
ant disturbances Of the season, because
it will inaugurate a splendid period of
crop weather. Excessive rains viii, to
a large extent, cease. and warm growing
weather that will make the farmers
pulse beat with greater regularity. will
come in and hold good for most of the
month
The cool wave preceding this storm
center will go near the frost line in
northern sections, following which a
high temperature wave will cross the
continent. As that warm wave nears
eastern sections the storm forces will in
crease and weather features become
more marked. The cool wave following
will be moderate.
SCIENCE NOTES.
The United States Weather Bureau
aspires to long range forecasts. Glad to
note the progress. Not long ago the
professors of that institution, with but
one or two exceptions, ridiculed. all eff
forts to forecast the weather more than
two days in advance.
The theory on which the adrninistra-
ton of the Weather Bureau directs its
investigations is that the force of the
radiations from the sun varies, thereby
causing our weather changes. Dr.. Abb
bott is the author of that theory, and
for many years carried on his inyestiga-
Itions at the Smithsonian Institution and
later at Mount Weather, which belongs
to the United States Weather Bureau.
This work has already cost immense
sums OF money. But who dares criti-
else the effort? # DR.. Abbott could
| discover the cause Of weather changes
and work oufsa system that would fore
least the general weather changes a year
lin advance he would Immediately take
Ia place as the greatest scientist Of the
present age and be hailed as the worlds
created benefactor. I hope Congress
viii give him ample funds and let his
work 60 on.
But i See many reasons for differing
IRON his theories. The causes Of our
weather changes have all been discov-
Tered. They were found BY analyzing a
hundred temperature and rainfall re
cords covering 50 to 100 years. How
docs Dr.. Abbott hope to formulate a
system Of foreeasdng without using re
lcords Does he propose to wait fifty
years in order to compile records of the
suns variations How can he set into
the sun SO as to get at the causes in the
ls1ln that bring on the suns variations