The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-04-30
BULLETIN
FORECAST OF STORMS TO CROSS
THE CONTINENT.
THE NEXT DISTURBANCE


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copyrighted 1911 by W. T. Fostcr.) |
Washington, April 2o.-Last bulletin
gave forecasts of disturbance to cross
the continent April 27 to May 81, warm
wave April 70 to 80, cool wave April 20
to May 3. This is expected to be one
of the most important disturbances of
the year covering a period of ten days,
including April p to May 6. No very
definite forecasts can be made of that
period. These great disturbances will
be of such immense force that our eX
perience with them has not yet enabled
us to forecast them in detail and par
ticulars About all that can be safely
said is to advise all to be on the lookout
for bad and dangerous weather events.
This great disturbance broke loose
little earlier than expected and earth
Quakes occurred in Italy on April 10 and
disastrous stOrmS at St. Louis and fur
Their west on April - and -. These
premature storms and earthquakes may
relieve the tension and lessen the force
of those expected April p to May 6.
The next disturbance will reach the
Pacific coast about May ?, cross the Pa
cihc slope by close of 3, great central
valleys 4 to 6, eastern sections I. Warm
wave will cross the Pacific slope about
May ?, great central valleys 4, eastern
sections 6. Cool wave will cross the
Pacific slope about May 5, great central
valleys 7, eastern sections 9.
This disturbance will include a period
of notable weather events. The storm
forces will be SO strong that it will be
beyond my art to give definite advice as
to The places where and the hours when
they will strike. 1t is not a pleasure but
feel it to be a duty to warn all that
destructive storms are more than prob
able as this disturbance crosses the con-
tinent If my forecasts extended to
countries where earthquakes are some
what frequent I would urge all to be on
the lookout for such during the dates
assigned to this storm period. Temper
atures for this storm period are expect
ed to average above normal but its clos
ing hours will bring a great drop in the
Temperature.
Third Disturbance of May will reach
the Pacific coast about s, cross Pacific
slope by close Of 9, great central valleys
10 to Il, eastern sections IS. Warm
wave will cross Pacific slope about May
8, great central valleys 10, eastern sec
tons L. Cool wave will cross Pacific
slope about May II, great central yal.-
leys y, eastern sections IS. e..
The salient features Of this storm
wave will be the closing out of the Sc
we're storms and the unusually cool
weather. Its temperatures wifi average
much below normal and frosts are eN-
pected to go further south than usual.
Its weather events will be somewhat
radical but not dangerous. Rainfall will
be in excess in some eastern sections
near parallel 80. General trend of tenn
peratures will be downward until after
the middle of May
SCIENCE NOTES.
The National Academy of Sciences
held its annual session in Washington
April I 8to Fl. The most interesting
event was a lecture delivered by Sir
John Murray of Scotland. For several
years he has been the director of the
ship Challenger investigating conditions
in the ocean depths. His researches
have revealed the immensely of animal
and vegetable life from its surface to
it's vast depreSsions, some of which are
nearly six miles in depth. He showed
that the great permanent high barom-
eters-where the atmospheric move
ments are circular, downward and COOL
are over the deep parts of the oceans
and that the accumulations of matter in
the great depressions-the filling up OF
these great holes-is, exceedingly slow.
He differed with the National Weather
Bureau theories and claimed that the
circular motion of waters in the five
great oceans are caused by the atmos-
pheric calculations, while the Weather
Bureau officials claim that it is the cir
cular movements of the great acean wa
tiers that cause the atmospheric circular
motions of the permanent highs over
the oceans.