The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-26
FOSTERS BULLETIN
FORECAST OF STORMS TO CROSS
THE CONTINENT
AVERAGE DISTURBANCE
Cold and Warm, Freezing and
Thawing Is the Weather for Feb
ruary-An Early Spring Crop Sea-
son Is Promised.
(Copyrighted 1913 by W. T. Foster

(Copyrighted 1913 by w. T. Foster)
Washington, Jan. 25.-Last bulle-
tin gave forecasts of disturbance to
cross the continent Jan. 25 to 29,
warm wave "a to %, cold wave u to
81. A cold wave will precede this
disturbance and the warm wave will
go to higher than usual degrees, but
the temperatures of the week will
average about normal. The word
normal is used to signify the aver
age of many years . for that day,
week or month and for that place.
Normal also is that condition lbest
suited to the crops Of that section.
When temperatures or rainfall are
above or below normal it is not the
best crop weather.
Next disturbance will reach the
Pacific coast about Jan. 20, cross
Pacific slope by close of 80, great
central valleys 81 to Feb. 2, east
ern sections 3. Warm wave will
cross Pacific slope about Jan. 20, the
great central valleys 81, eastern sec
tions Feb. 2. Cool wave will cross
Pacific slope about Feb. 1, great
central valleys 3, eastern sections 8.
This will be about an average dis
turbance, of greater force on the
Pacific and Atlantic coasts than in
the central valleys. Not much pre-
cipitation.
Next disturbance will reach Pa
cific coast about Feb. 8, cross Pa
cific slope by close of 4, great CEN
trail valleys to Z, eastern sections
[8. Warm wave will cross Pacific
slope about Feb. 8, great central
valleys 5, eastern sections 7. Cool
wave will cross Pacific slope about
! Feb. 3, great central valleys 8, east
Eern sections 10.
| This will bring the warmest
weather of February to the sections
south of latitude 40 but north OF
that latitude the warmest February
weather will come near middle OF
the month. Some rain or snow Feb
4 to and the storm will be of more
than usual force.
February will average colder east
of meridian 80 than between merid-
ian 90 and the Rockies. Freezing
and thawing during that month will
injure winter grain in the great Gen.
trail valleys. Not much snow except
on northern Pacific slope. Some
good rains in middle Missouri val
leys.
Dangerous storms of February
may be expected 20 to 27. We car
not locate these storms. We can moi
locate the concentrated rains calleC
cloudbursts, such as recently oc-
CURED in the upper Ohio valley:
and caused the great and suddeI
Ohio floods. The moisture OF all the
continent east of the Rockies wa
concentrated by that storm. w,
gave warning Of the severe storms
but not Of the floods.
The dangerous storms Feb. 20 t.
. 27 will probably cause concentrated
: rains but we can not say where
East of the Rockies the February
precipitation will be less than usua
as an average.
81 Spring crop weather promises t.
5 open early, more particularly in tn
5 great central valleys. March will b.
cold from about to 16, then yer,
warm to end of month. Early ma
turing crops should be put in earl
in order to get the benefit Of tn
0 moisture in the soil in the earl
: spring. But some sections will ge
! their best rains last of June an
Q in July with a drouth in August L
: those sections the late maturin
I crops should be put in so as to ma
ture by the middle of August.
We can not, through these bulle
:. tins, advise farmers and planter
: when to sell grain and cottor
: Spectators would take advantag
8 of such information and defeat tn
: purpose. Sometimes these bulletin
. advise when not to sell, and n
. farmer or planter has ever com
planned to US that such advice wa
'lnot good. About the only mistake W
have made in that line of recer
= years was on 1912 oats.
81 The Balkan war has affected tn
= prices of grain but we do not thin
:, that war will long continue.