The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-07-07
FOSTERS BULLETIN
FORECAST OF STORMS TO CROSS
THE CONTINENT
EXTREMES OF SUMNER
In Some Sections The Temperature
Will Be Hot and Dry, and in 9th
ers Excessively Cool-MOst Rain
for July in Upper Ohio Valley.

copyrighted 1912 by W. T. Foster.
Washington. July 6.-LaSt bulle-
tin gave forecasts Of disturbance to
cross the continent July E 10 10,
warm wave ) to 9, cool wave : to
II. This will bring all the extremes
known to summer weather. On the
approach of the warm wave YOU
may expect excessively hot weather
if your place is east of the Rockies,
but if you are west OF the Rocky
crest you may expect excessively
cool weather as the cool wave ap-
breaches. Look over my monthly
chart or the weekly bulletins and
you will see where | expect dry
weather in July and Where drOuth
is expected. In the drOuth sections
the disturbance mentioned above
will scOrch the crops, while good
growing weather, particularly for
corn and cotton, may be expected in
the wet sections.
Most rain for July seems to be
due for the. upper Ohio valleys,
about the upper lakes, in the Vicin-
ity of Houston, Texas, in southern
Florida and in Cuba. The principal
showers are expected from July Is
to p, and most severe wind storms
July Is to 26. Electric storms not
far from July %. Unusually cool
weather from July Is to q.
Ny readers should keep in mind
that our continental weather is con
trolfed by the disturbanCes-th'
highs and lows-that come south
ward on the east side of the Rockies
and generally east of the plains
States, and that the weather of the
northeastern States and eastern sec
tons of Canada usually agrees with
the weather on the Pacific coast
about and north of San Farnclsco.
The weather events, as a rule, are
the reverse in those northeastern
sections and northwestern sections
to what it is in the great central
valleys. This is more particularly
true of temperatures. When | do
not specifically locate the events
ycu may know they are for the cen
trail valleys and that the reverse Is
expected for the northeast and the
northwest sections which lie east of
trend of the AIleghenies and west
of the trend of the Rockies.
The next disturbance will reach
Pasific coast about July 10, cross
Pacific slope by close of II, great
central valleys IL to IA, eastern sec
lions Is. Warm wave will cross Pa
cific slope about July 10, great cen
trail valleys ~, eastern sections IA.
Cool wave will cross Pacific slope
about July 10, great central valleys
is. eastern sections II.
+ While the trend of temperatures
will be downward during that week
the average temperatures will con-
tinue high. Some rainfall is expect
ed but no general rains, and there
fore as the warm wave comes IN
the. crops in many places will wilt,
the corn blades roll. Wherever the
crops get through this great hot
wave in good condition fair crops
may be hoped for, but in many
places the damage is expected to be
great.
A very similar hot wave is expect
ed August to H.. and where botA
this and The hot July waves strike
and only a small amount OF ram
falls there the crops that mature IN
August will be deficient.
Planetary meteoFology is moving
on. DeVoe, one of our most success
full long range fOrecasters, has made
a contract to furnish a great medl-
cine company his forecasts and ne
is to receive $1,000 year as long as
he lives and is able to get out the
forecasts for that company. Of
course he is not to put out his fore
casts through any other medium
and the medicine company is using
those forecasts for advertising pur-
poses.
That is an entirely legitimate and
HONORABLE agreement. The govern
mept pays its Weather Bureau pre-
fessors $4,000 "a year, while DeVoe,
claiming no titles and no handles to
his name. is able to earn $4,000 a
wear for one great medicine com
pany. Planetary meteorology Is
surely moving on.