The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-12-28
January Weather.


Look out for a cold and stormy
January is the prediction OF Hicks,
the St. Louis weather prognosticator.
He says: -,
A reactionary storm period will
make itself felt, in a progressive way
from west to east, central on the End,
3rd and 4th. This period Is at the
center of q Venus equinox, with
moon at full, in perigee and at north
extreme declination. 1t will bring
decided rise in temperature, falling
barometer, with rain, turning to
snow and sleet as storms advance
eastwardly across the country. A
seismic period. covering six to seven
days. is central on the 4th. Great
extremes from high to low winter
temperatures will mark this and
other winter periods.
A regular storm period, central on
the 9TH, covers the 9Th to the 9Th.
This period under the Venus fnfiu-
ence, promises to take up the disturb
ances Immediately preceding 1t,
causing a prolonged spell of stormy,
disagreeable weather. The period
will eliminate on and touching the
9th, in possible thunder and rain,
with sudden change to freezing,
blizzard and high north gales. A
very low barometer at the first stage
of these storms will be warning of a
great and far-reaching cold wave,
which will prevail generally, and far
into the south, from about the 9Th
to 18th.
A reactionary storm period is CEN
trail on the 18th, 18th and 18th, at
which time the general cold will re-
lax, the barometer will fall and
cloudiness with rain and snow will
pass eastwardly across the country.
Prolonged cloudiness and threaten
ing weather will follow this period,
as result of the Mercury and Mars
equinoxes.
A regular storm period covers the
18th to the 21st, central on the 18th,
with new moon. The Mercury per-
iod is central on the 18th, and the
Mars period will also begin it's per-
turbing influence at this time. The
Moon will be in apogee and at the
extreme south declination. Watch
your barometer as this period de-
velops! 1t it falls to very low read
ings, fierce winter gales will surely
follow; rains will turn to destructive
sleet; billiards will rush down from
the northwest, and furious cold
wave will wind up the storm tur-
MOL. say about the Goth to 23rd.
Don't forget this period, or neglect
such precautions as might save you
wave will pass through many parts
of the earth within three or four
days of Friday the 18th. The Mars
influence at this storm period will
"set the pace" for storm and weather
for six or eight weeks to come. In
other words-the same general char
acter of storms and weather prevail
ing at this time will be characteristic
of storms and weather through Feb
ruary and far into March.
A reactionary storm period falls
centrally on the Gath, 25th and 26th.
The moon passes the celestial equat-
or on the oath, which fact always
brings marked tendency to higher
temperature, drop in barometric
pressure, and electrical disturbances.
Thunder and lightning even in win
ter, as a rule, result at the transits
of the moon over the equator. Watch
these dates all through the year.
Rain and snow will return on and
touching the Gath and 25th, follow
cd BY higher barometer and reaction
to very cold.
A regular storm period is central
on the Goth, reaching from the 2Sth
of January, to the End of February.
January will go out with falling bar
ometer; rising temperature, grow
ing cloudiness, and transforms in
western sections, moving eastward.
These storms will be over the cen
trail Mississippi valley about the
31st, with rising barometer and
much colder advancing from the
northwest. Eastern extremes will
have storms and change to colder,
one to three days later.
Upon the whole, we figure that
January will bring much severe and
stormy weather.
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