The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-10-15
WEATHER BULLETIN
FORECAST OF STORMS TO GROSS
THE CONTINENT.
THE NEXT DISTURBANCE
Warm Wave October Is to 19-COOl
Wave October fS to 22-TrOpicai
Hurricane Followed b! Frosty
Weather.

| copyrighted 1911 by w. T. Foster.)
| Washington, Oct. f4.-Last bulle-
tin gave forecasts of disturbance TO
cross the continent October is to 90
warm wave IS to i9, cool wave is to
90 This will be the most severe dis
lturbance Of the month. Tempera-
lures will go unusually high as the
storm center approaches and the
great fall in temperature following
will bring a cold wave in northern
sections and carry frosis far down
toward the cotton belt. But prob
abilities are that cotton will not be
injured. The sun will be eclipsed on
October q but the eclipse will not
be visible on this continent. 1t will
be visible in small sections of east
ern Asia and the East Indies.
During the five days of which Oc-
tober 81 will be central day trop-
ical hurricane will probably organ
ize to the eastward of the Caribbean
Sea. That hurricane and the conti-
mental cold wave will be the result
of the same cause and their move
ments will be related to each other.
During the five days mentioned
above conditions will be favorable
to earthquakes in some places where
they sometimes occur. From Octo-
Der Is to 81 larger than usual SUM-
spots are expected. From October is
to % the various disturbances men,
toned are expected to be OF char
acter that will tend to demonstrate
the truth of planetary meteorology
ard will suggest that our govern
ment and other governments are los
| ing time and wasting money by neg
leeting this theory and expending
large sums for investigating other
and false theories.
The next disturbance will reach
| the Pacific coast about October q, !,
cross Pacific coast by close of 22,
great central valleys % to 25. eastern
sections 26. Warm wave will cross
Pacific slope about October 81, the
great central valleys 23. eastern sec
I tions %. Cool wave will cross the
Pacific slope about October "a great
central valleys 26, and eastern sec
|tions 2S.
While this disturbance is west of
meridian 90 it will be dominted by
the great forces mentioned in pre-
'ceding photographs and all its
weather features will be at greatest
intensities in western sections. The
hurricane mentioned is, at the same
time, expected in the Caribbean or
Mexican seas. Another frost wave
will cross the continent Immediately
following the last mentioned cool
wave.
The weather of October is expect
ed to continue favorable to winter
grain west of meridian 85. but east
of that line many sections will bel
too dry. Cotton crop weather is ex-
pected to continue favorable to the
growth of top cotton. Beginning
very early in the year these bulle-
tins have persistently advised that
the cotton crop would be good while
oats, hay, corn, potatoes would fall
short. This one great success in
long range forecasting should con-
vert the doubters.
The authorities have ruled against
the United States Weather Bureau
and the latter is prevented from ex-
tending its work in the recording
and study of earthquakes. This is all
wrong. There is surely a relation
between the causes of weather
changes and the causes of earth
quakes, and Congress should appro-
prite ample funds to be used by the
Watcher Bureau for that purpose.
The Weather Bureau is exceedingly
we'll equipped for recording earth
quakes and such records are not on
ly necessary in order to study and
ofrecast earthquakes, but such re-
cords will be valuable in working
out weather problems. That institu-
tion is long on scientists but short
on philosophers. tt can make good
records but does not know what to
do with them. Philosophers must
use those records in working out
the weather and other great prob
lens. We can know the future only
by the past.