The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-12
BULLETIN
OF STORMS TO CROSS
THE CONTINENT
THE NEXT DISTURBANCE
The Temperatures of the Week Cen
tcring on the Warm Wave OF the
Disturbance.

copyrighted 1912 by w. T. Eoster.( |
Washington, D. c., May 11.-Last
bulletin gave forecasts of disturbances
to cross continent May 13 to Il, warm
wave 12 to 16, cool wave Is to 10. The
notable features will be severe storms,
cooler than first week Of May and not
much rain. The rains have been coming
about the time calculated but were
colder during last half of April and ex-
tended farther south than expected. |
had calculated more than usual rain
from Kansas City to Albany, n. Y,
and very heavy along the gulf coast
from Houston to longitude of Birming-
ham and also in Cuba and Southern
Florida.
rhe most notable forecasts | put out
during last pjNt of 1911 was that winter
wheat would be seriously damaged by
freezing and thawing and that the
damage would show up last part of
Auril, 1912. Such forecasts are inn
menselv valuable.
Now, as | promised, | advise those
holding cotton, grain and rough feed
stuff not to sell. My reasons for Civ
ing out such advice are based on my
calculations of coming crop weather.
Prices of cotton and grain seem to be
high enough and holders are inclined
to SELL May weather will probaly be
morefavorable to crops than was April
crop weather. l expect to see corn go
to one dollar a bushel and other pro-
duets in proportion before first Of
September.
1 have not a dollar invested In grain
or cotton; all the money l can get hold
of goes toward perfecting my weather
work and 1 have no money to invest
in anything else.
I am not expecting a general failure
of crops but serious failureswill occur
in such large sections that they will
dl1tCb hCt NaiuVo'
Next disturbance will reach Pacific
coast about May II, cross Pacific slope
by close Of IS, great central valleys
10 to 81, eastern sections %. Warm
wave will cross Pacific slope about May
II, great central valleys 10 , eastern
sections q. Cool wave will cross Pa
cifie slope about May 90, great central
valleys 90, eastern sections "a.
Temperatures of the week centering
on the warm wave of this disturbance
will average lower than usual, the
storm forces will continue to be more
radical than usual and rainfall will be
/ about normal, that is the usual average
for that part of May. Generally too
cool for all farm products and where
the soil is too wet it will be particular
ly bad for all growing crops.
Another disturbance will reach Pa.
cific coast about May 90, cross Pacific
slope by close of 81, great General val
Ileys % to "a, eastern sections rs. Warm
wave will cross Pacific slope about May
20, great General valleys %, eastern
sections "a. Cool wave will cross Pa
cifie slope about May %, great central
valleys 25, eastern sections q.
This will be, in all essential features
very similar to the preceding except
that not much rain is expected. But it
; will inaugurate a week of increased
rainfall.
The Santa Clara, California, observ'
atory is watching and testing my fore
casts of sunspots. This is important
because there is a general belief, even
among the orthodox scientists, that sun
spots have relation to years of plenty
and years of famine or scarcity. Jos
eph, the Hebrew, must have had some
knowlege of natural causes when he ad
vised the King of Egypt that they
. would have seven years of plenty, fol
lowed by seven years of famine. The
Egyptians were noted astrologers-
which then meant the same as our wore
astronomers now means to us-and they
, calculated weather events by the posi-
tions of the planets. We are not sure
that they had no knowledge of sun
, spots.
!, expect group of sunspots to form
on opposite side of sun June and come
into view east side not far from Jun,
IS. Look out for great events follow
: ing May IA, liable to occur at any time
, but May IA, 16, 20, 80, 81 and JUNE
|, 5 are very auspicious dates.
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