The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-31
SEPTEMBER WEATHER.

Copyright Hart Schaffner Marx
SEPTEMBER WEATHER.
Here is What Hicks Promises Us for
the Coming Month-Nights
to be Cool.
A regular storm period is central
on the 4th embracing the End to the
7th. Disturbing causes and what to
look fOr-The Moon is at first quar-
ter. on the 4th, and greatest declina-
ton south OF the 5th. The autumnal
equinox of the Earth is drawing near
or to crisis, the planet Mercury is
in aphelion, and the planets Saturn
and Venus are in conjunction. BY
the End and 3rd, western extremes Of
the country will have change OF
winds to southerly, the temperature
will begin to rise, the barometer will
fall, and increasing cloudiness will
show that falling weather Is impend-
ing. These conditions will continue to
grow in strength, spreading over
wider regions north and south IS
they advance eastward. By the 3rd
rains will begin in western parts, and
on Monday, the 4th, to Thursday, the
eth, these rain areas will make their
way across the country, winding up
In the Atlantic coast regions on the
9th and 7th This storm center, or
area of low barometer, will be about
midway the continent, or in the cen
trail Mississippi valley, on and touch
ing the 4th and 5th. Remember, the
large capital letters, used to denote
the days of the week, are intended to
show, in all the storm charts, the
days on which storms are likely to
be at their most active development.
Careful observation will soon find
that storms as rule reach their
crisis on the days thus indicated.
There are no special reasons to ap-
preheDd unusual disturbance at this
first September period, but regular
storm manifestations will make their
transit eastwardly across the coun-
try, attended by more or less wind
and rain, and followed by rise in at
mospheric pressure and change to
westerly winds and much cooler. Cool
nights will visit most parts OF the
country, reaching for southwark in
the wake of this storm period-say
about the 9Th, 7th and 8th. This cool
wave will begin behind the storms in
the west about the 5th, and follow
eastward and southwark progressive
" on the 9th, 7th and 8th.,
"A reactionary storm period is CEN
trail on Saturday, Sunday, Monday
and Tuesday, the 9th, 10th, 1th and
18th. The Moon is in perigee on the
9th, being at full Moon or in OPPOSE
ton with Earth and Sun and on the
celestial equator on the 18th. 1t
must also be remembered that the
i It'll day of September, like the 18th
OF March, is the center of an annual
crisis of magnetic unrest anu Vlo-
lence. The electric and magnetic
nerves of nature, as rule, are on q
strain or high tension for period of
five or six days, central on September
18th. There is no special danger at
tending these periods. except that
they intensity all electrical and mag
netic phenomena, thereby adding to
the danger of equinoctial storms, and
tending greatly to aggravate volcanic
and earthquake unrest. Peculiar
disturbances in telegraphy and in the
atmosphere, such as free electricity,
aurorial manifestations and the like.
are characteristic of these periods. A
very low and fluctuating barometer,
on and within two days before and
after. the 18th. will bet0ken storms
and other phenomena that will ap-
proximate danger. Regions border
ing on the gulf, and along the At
lantic coasts to the southwark, should
not suffer themselves to be caught
mapping. There is probable danger
OF equatorial storms and tidal waves
An those regions. These storms will
travel inland, and counter storms out
OF the west and north will conspire
to make it time of turmoil and pos
sible danger. Watch your barometer
and other things that go before great
elemental changes and storms. ~Such
things never come on any live person
without abundant and timely warn
ing. There will be drop In the
temperature after these storms, al
most or quite to the frost line,
throughout the northern and central
regions of the conntry-say on ana
about tuesday the 18th. to Thursday
the 18th. This cool spell, like the
storms, will not hit the whole coun-
try ut the same time-lt will travel!
III will be heard from in the north
west, days before it arrives in the
southeast. Watch and zee.
The storm diagram shows that the
Mars equinoctial period begins to
make itself felt about September the
10th. 50 that 1t must be considered
among the astronomic causes at work
during the react.onary period, 9Th to
18th. For over twenty-five years we
have commended that, as Mars period
begins. SO will it continue for the
most part to its close. By this we
mean that the kind OF weather, ana
any peculiarity Of storms that may
exist 6. we enter the Mars period. as
: rule, will be CHARACTERISTIC OF the
storms and weather throughout that
period. The exact date Of the begin
ninx of the precent Mars period may
not be UNDERWOOD. but II Y safe to