The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-27
The Weather for August.

The drouth of the past few months
has made everybody sit up and take
notice of the unusual weather all
over the country, and the following
predictions for the month Of August
made by Prof. Hicks, of St. Louis
will be read with interest:
A regular storm period, in pro-
gress at the close of July, will bring
Mercurial cloudiness and summer
storms to eastern parts of the coun-
try, during the first two or three
days of August. The quadrature of
Jupiter, blending with other causes,
will aggravate all disturbances about
this time.
A reactionary storm period has its
center on the 5th and 9Th. On and
touching these dates, look for
marked increase of temperature, fall
ing barometer and moderate to light,
misty rains We do not believe that
rains will be sufficient for crops that
are not matured by early August, ex-
cept in narrow localities and along
the middle eastern sections.
A regular storm period extends
from the 9th to the 18th, having
full moon on the 9th, and moon on
the equator on the 18th. This per-
iod will bring threatening clouds,
fall Of the barometer and violent,
clustering winds. Relief from great
warmth will follow disturbances at
this time, and many sections will
get light to moderate rains, but not
sufficient for general agricultural
needs. The 9th is the center Of a
marked seismic period, extending
about four days before and after that
date. On and about the 18th, a
crisis of electrical and seismic dis
turbance. Note this forecast. The
quadrature of Saturn falls on the
18th, and the quadrature of Mars
on the oth-facts greatly tending to
seismic trouble.
A reactionary storm period is CEN
trail on the 18th and 18th, calling
for renewed summer heat, falling
barometer and clustering storms.
A show of rain, amounting to showers
i'm scattered sections, will result at
this and other August periods. Make
the most of them for you will surely
need them.
A regular storm period covers the
goth to 25th, central on the 22nd.
Earth's autumnal equinox will bear
on this period. Moon being in per-
igee and at new, tidal dangers and
equinoctial storms are indicated for
the gulf regions at this time. A
seismic wave is also coincident with
this storm period, central on the
23rd. Some of the most destructive
storms on the gulf and along the
southern coasts occur in the month
of August. When such disturbances
appear in the south in August, pre-
maturely cool weather and frosts
are apt to occur over much of the
interior parts of country northward.
Sush things are probable this month,
during and following the storm per-
iOd goth TO 26th.
A reactionary storm period will
bring decided storm conditions on
the 27th( 2Sth and 10Th. The moon
being on the celestial equator on the
26th, may bring thunder storms and
fill the time between this and the pre-
ceding period with threatening,
stormy weather. Indications: are
that the month will go out with
change to fair and much cooler
weather.
We close up these forecast pages
on June 30th, in the midst of ex-
cessively warm weather. Great lack
ing reported in many parts of the
country-the temperature still ris-
ing as the month goes out. The last
storm period in June, time which,
in a normal season, would have
brought an excess of rain, passed off
with general show of rain and
change to cooler weather; but the
rainfall as whole was far short of
a sufficiency, and the drouth may be
considered as unbroken in almost all
parts of the country. Many products
of the season have been hopelessly
destroyed by heat and drouth. and
the corn crop, unless rain should
come in sufficient abundance later, is
doomed to disastrous shortage.
AS matters now stand, the indica-
tons are that the crisis of the Jupi-
ter period will be passed during the
present season, thus bringing it in
1911, instead of 1912. We have al
ways contended that three seasons
are more or less affected by the Jupi-
are light and insufficient in northern
extremes of this continent; the sec
Ond year, as a rule. widespread
drouth extends over the great CEN
trail grain belt, extending more or
less to northern and southern ex-
tremes; the third year, normal rains
return to more northerly and central
regions, with hurtful drouth disap-
pearing along the extreme southern
parts of the continent. All know
that severe drouth prevailed during
1910 in northern extremes, and now
that the whole central region is in
volved this season, there is good rea-
son to conclude that the worst of the
present Jupiter period will be passed
this year. Lack of rains, especially
toward the extreme south, will be
natural for another year, but more
seasonable conditions will return to
the great northwestern, western and
central sections of the country. This
IS the outlook as it now appears. If