The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-08-27
SEPTEMBER WEATHER.
Hicks Promises Storms for the Com
ing Month, and ii They Bring
Rain They will be We'll
come. ~

(, on September the 1st, End and Bird,
followed closely to the Atlantic Ocean
by rising barometer and change to
colder weather.
A. reactionary storm period has
its central days on the 4th, 5th and
9Th. This period finds the full moon
on both the ecliptic and the equator,
hence there is an eclipse of the
moon on the 4th. This is another
period in which general commissions
Of earth, sea and air will be most
natural. If the barometer falls far
below normal-results reasonably to
be expected-there will be danger
Of violent, equatorial storms, reach
ing inland from the Gulf and south
coasts, on and touching the 4th, 9Th
and 9Th. Coast regions little ele-
waited above sea level, not only on
this, but other continents and is
lands, will probably be exposed to
furious equinoctial storms and tidal
waves at and about this time. Such
disturbances, in fact, will threaten
all through the latter part of August,
reaching dangerous EXAMINATIONS at
this and other September periods.
Great electrical storms, and much
kindred phenomena, will center on
and about the 5th. For many hours,
If not days, the true and trusty bar
ometer will give warning from the
southern gulf and sea, of West India
disturbances heading northWard to-
ward our southern coast regions.
We do not claim that this forecast
must inevitably come true, but we
do insist that the astronOmic condi-
ton at and about this time is such
as to warrant this warning to those
most concerned. If danger is brew
ing along our south coasts, or far
inland, unmistakable indications will
appear, to all who will see them, in
ample time to escape danger. Should
no danger develop, surely no harm
can result from that calm and COM
nonsense watchfulness, which would
prove the price of property and life,
if the worst should come. This is
no sensational alarm, but calm
forelook into the possible and prob
able face of conditions which would
certainly bring alarm and consterna-
ton at an hour too late to think or
plan or act. If very low barometer
and great storms cover the south at
this, and other September periods,
gales and high winds will blow from
northerly regions, followed over
much of the country by unseason-
able cold and frost.
A regular storm period is central
on the 18th, only one day from the
center of a Mercury period on the
18th. 1t must also be remembered
that the annual, autumnal crisis of
magnetic and electrical unrest falls
from about the 8th to the 18th of
September. This storm period is
therefore coincident with the mag
netic crisis, in the Mercury period,
and nearing the center of earth's
autumnal equinoctial disturbance.
We conclude that very general, wide
reaching and intense storm disturb
ances will appear from about Thurs
day the 10th to Monday the 14th.
Auroral displays in the north sky,
with phenomenal manifestation and
Overcharge of electrical and mag
netic forces, on all instruments and
appliances which are subject to such
influences. We are sometimes told
that such things do not interest
very large class of people, and that
we should stick plainly to our storm
and weather forecasts. Our answer
is, II any one finds no interest in
ture, and in the fact that they are
scientifically periodic, he had little
capacity to understand and profit by
our storm and weather forecasts.
The causes of all are inseparably
linked into one great cosmic whole,
and the problems of storm and wea-
Their and earthquake will never be
fully and satisfactorily solved until
this fact is understood and taken
into the calculations. Autumnal
weather will most probably follow
the storm period, 9th to 14th. After
low barometer, rain, high winds and
lthunder, on and touching the 18th
Ito 14th, look for general change
mo cooler weather, followed by prob
Gble frosts over many sections north
ward, say from about the 18th to the
l16th.
IA reactionary storm period is CEN
trail on the 18th, 18th and 18th.
This period, also has a critical out
look, in the fact that new moon on
the 1Stu Is WlIulu d Udy Vi WV VI
the center of the autumnal equinox,
with the moon on the celestial equa-
tor. The chances are that a series
Of storms and other disturbances
will set in at this time which will
continue forward into the next storm
period. The Mercury and the Venus
periods both reach into this period,
adding greatly to the probabilities
OF severe and prolonged disturbances
centering on and about the 18th.
"a regular storm period falls at the
crisis of earth's September equinox,
being central on the 22nd, and ex-
tending from the goth to the 25th.
The moon is in perigee on the 2 LIST.
only one day after new moon on the
equator on the 18th. As stated
above, the probability is that storms,
with threatening weather generally.
will continue from the 18th into the
regular storm period. II the bar
someter does not rise very decidedly
about the goth, with sharp change,
and sti6 westerly winds, expect