The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-04-06
FOSTERS BULLETIN
FORECAST OF STORMS TO CROSS
THE CONTINENT
BETTER BE CAUTIOUS
Storm Forces Still Above Normal
One Fortunate Law Preyails-De-
structive Storms Seldom Visit the
Same Sections Twice, Except al
Long Intervals.

copyrighted 1913 by w. T. FOSTER
Washington, April 5.-Last bulle-
tin gave forecasts Of disturbance to
cross the continent April 7 to II,
warm wave to 10, cool wave 9 to
13. The worst Of the storms will
still be above normal; therefore,
while no one should have a nervous
chill about it, better continue to be
cautious throughout this month.
One fortunate natural law prevails.
Destructive storms seldom pass
over the same sections except at
long intervals, and the places that
suffered so greatly in February and
March will probably be exempt to-
the balance of 1913
The next disturbance will reach
the Pacific coast about April IL,
cross Pacific slope by close of 49,,
great central valleys IA to i6, east
ern sections II. Warm wave will
cross Pacific slope about April IL,
great central valleys ia, eastern
sections 16. Cool wave will cross the
Pacific slope about April Is, great
central valleys II, and the eastern
sections 19.
A northern cold wave, with un-
usually low temperatures, will pre-
oede this disturbance two or three
days and about one day in advance
Of it the temperatures will go up.
rapidly. The storm forces will be
greater than their general average,
but not so great as in the recent
past.
During the first half of this month
the rain forces will change and the
locations of rainfall for the next
five months will differ greatly from
the locations of the rains for the
past five months. Since August 1912
we have continuously located the
greatest rainfall on the eastern and
western sides of the continent and
the minus rains in the great CEN
trail valleys. From April to August
inclusive this year an entirely new
arrangement of the rainfall may be
expected.
April will average warmer than
usual; coolest week of the month
will center near April i3. This will
vary about three days because the
warm waves require about five days
to cross the continent. In similar
way the weeks centering on April 6
and "a will be warmest of the
month. Storms may be expected for
several days centering on those
dates.
The press owes it to these bulle-
tins to editorially mention the i'm
portant forecasts and warnings
quoted below. Bulletin dated Sept.
I, Dangerous storms and earth
quakes are expected in many places
all round the earth near Oct. H.,
1912" Nov. 80, "Christmas holidays
are expected to have about normal
temperatures and less than usual
precipitation" Jan. 25, Dangerous
storms may be expected Feb. 20 to
e." Feb. 1, 1--WE place Feb. % as
the central day of the dangerous
storms of that month" Feb. s, dis
turbance will cross the continent
Feb. 19 to %. 1t will be a dangerous
storm" Feb. Is, 1--WE still warn all
to avoid the dangerous storms Feb.
20 to 28." March 1, Again we hang
out danger signals for March 16 to
%. According to our calculations
made about the middle of January
clearing weather may be expected
for the Inauguration" March 8,
Disturbance will cross the conti-
nent March IS to g." Feb. Is, 1--WE
still warn all to avoid dangerous
storms Feb. 20 to g." March 8,
Disturbance will cross the conti-
nent March Is to %. This will be a
very dangerous storm period"
Those forecasts and warnings
were repeated several times in ear
lier or later bulletins and all were
strenuously urged to seek safety.
We knew that the first quarter of
1913 would bring some of the most
dangerous storms of the century and
did our part in trying to save lives