The Caucasian., 1912-04-07
FOSTERS BULLETIN
OF STORMS TO CROSS
THE CONTINENT
CONDITIONS FAVORABLE
Splendid Crop Weather Will Follow
Long and DiSagreeable Hard
Wintcr-Warmer Temperature.

copyrighted 1912 by w. I. Foster.)
Washington, April 6.-Last bulle-|
tin gave forecasts Of disturbance to
cross the continent April 8 to IL,
warm wave to II, cool wave 10 to
IA. This will close out the backward
spring weather, the cold, disagree
able and long period of hard winter.
Precipitation is expected to be
above normal, in districts where
rains have been predicted, for the
five days period centering on the
warm wave that will cross the con-
tinent April ! to II.
The next disturbance will reach
the Pacific coas tabout April ~,
cross the Pacific slope by close of
i3, great central valleys IA to 16,
eastern sections II. Warm wave
will cross Pacific slope about April
IL, great central valleys IA, eastern
sections t6. Cool wave will cross the
Pacific slope about April IS, great
central valleys II, eastern sections
10. This disturbance will inaugurate
long period of warm weather and
or most places, splendid cropweath-
er. AS the cool wave comes in the
weather will be cloudy except
where previous bulletins have pre-
dicted dry for April.
Rainfall will be less than usual
in the Southern States except in
southern Florida and near the gulf
coast. Also less than usual rain in
the sections drained by the upper
valleys of the Arkansas, the Kaw
the Platte, the Missouri and the
| Mississippi, about the great lakes
and in eastern Canada. Dry in the
Sacramento valleys. Generally we
from Kansas City to Albany, N. Y
But nearly all sections have ar
abundance of moisture and all con-
ditions appear to be favorable te
splendid cropweather conditions al
end of April. These good conditions
| will probably tend to lower al
prices of farm and plantation pro-
ducts and therefore dealers i'll those
products should expect prices tC
weaken.
If natural conditions are per-
nitted hard times or less prosper
ity for The people than existed las
year. The public, and particular.
the producers, should not be dis
| turbed by the seeming. unsteadines:
| in government matters; those fur
ries will pass and prosperity will
| continue.
Great weather events on man,
parts of the earth are expected dur.
ing the week centering on May 81
About June 4 or 2 great disturb
ances are expected on the sun, boil
! storm center and anti-cyclone. TIN
storm centers on the sun are Drigh
spots called faculae, and the anti
cyclones are called sunspots and ar,
the same as cold waves with us
: These spots will appear little Yves
to the right of the suns center, th'
| bright spots will be little south o
the suns center, and the dark spot
: further south.
| expect an electric disturbanc
: on this continent last days of Ma,
and not far from that time lorna
does are expected. Severe storm
from middle of May to June 10.
Scientists who are in the emplo,
of nearly all governments believ
that the sun, from some unknow
= cause, changes periodically, tn
amount of force it sends out an
they are trying to find the lengt
of those periods in order that the
may be able to forecast weather.
believe the cause lies in the chang
ing relations of the planets and tina
! they affect our earth on the sam
!. principles that one magnet affect
1 another.