The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-01-27
FEBRUARY WEATHER
The Coming Month Has Only 20 Days
But Hicks Says 1t Will BE a
stormy Month.

| A regular storm period is centra
on January 30th, extending from
January 2Sth to February 18th. Astro
nomic causes and things to expect
The Moon is farther south on Janu
airy goth, it is in perigee, or neares
Earth on February LIST, and in con
| junction with Sun and Earth, or a.
new Moon, on the 3rd. The Moon viii
be in eclipse with the Sun on the Bird
This indicates violent electrical &C
tivities. These things call for active
to dangerous storms, during the las1
two days of January, and up to the
4th of February. BY the 29th Of
January low and rapidly falling
barometer will be noted in western
extremes, and storms of rain anC
thunder will organize in western and
southern directions, and during the
last two days of January, and up tc
February the 4th, storms of wide
sweep and marked violence will pass
over almost the entire continent
These storms will be over the central
Mississippi valley by February LIST
with rising barometer, northwest
gales and cold wave starting from
the northwest. By the LIST to the
3rd, the actual storms of rain and
snow will reach the eastern states
and the Atlantic seaboard, and the
high barometer and blizzardous snow
and winds will be close on their
heels, rushing eastward and south
ward. Keep these general facts in
mind, and as the period comes on
consult your barometer, note the
temperature, the direction of the
winds, and the formation and move
ment of clouds, and you will not be
overtaken or surprised by any kind
of storms or weather changes. Tropi-
cal or West India hurricanes, with
possible tOrnadoes in the extreme
gulf states, woulu not be unnatural,
any time during the last two days
of January, and the first three to four
days in February. Two to four days
of severe cold, generally over the
country, will attend and follow after
the storms of this period. IT you
will give the least intelligent atten-
ton to the matter, you may know
in advance just when the storms and
changes will reach your locality,
and whether or not they promise to
VIC 1OlCul anu ouo.
A reactionary storm period is cen
trail on Friday, Saturday and Sun
day, the 4th, 5th and 9th. The
Moon is on the celestial equator on
the 9th. Mercury is at inferior con-
junction with Earth and Sun on the
5th, and Uranus is also in conjunc-
ton with Sun and Earth on the 9Th.
From these and other astronomical
causes that might be mentioned, it
is safe to say that many disturbances
in the way of storms and cratic
changes are probable at this time. A
sudden rise of temperature on and
touching the 9Th. with squalls and
thunder gusts in many isolated local
tiles, would be in conformity to the
existing astronomic conditions at the
time. A reaction to cold, fair wealth
err will follow from about the 9Th to
the eth.
A. regular storm period is central
on the 10th, covering Tuesday the
Sth, to Sunday the 18th. Disturbing
causes and things to expect-The
Moon is in quadrature, or at first
quarter, on the 10th, and at extreme
north declination and in apogee on
the 18th. The planet Mars is in OPP
position, or nearest the Earth on
this year, on the 10th. The regular
Vulcan period. is, of course, the foun-
dation of this period, accentuated,
perhaps by solstice excitement of
the planet Venus, in very close con-
junction with the great planet Jupi-
ter. AS we enter this period we are
to expect decided change to warm
er, beginning in the vest and attend
ed by falling barometer and growing
cloudiness. During the 9Th to about
the 18th, these conditions will adj
vance into the great central valleys,
breaking into storms of wind and
rain. Meantime. rising barometer
and change to snow and colder will
appear west and north. From about
the 18th to 18th, the storm center
will pass from central regions to the
Atlantic seaboard, with the high bar
Ometer, snow and change to much
colder following the storms into the
extreme east and south. Thus, dur
ing the same storm period, we have
the three phases of storm and wealth
er passing in rotation order from
west to east across the continent:
First, warmer, threatening weather,
with falling barometer, cloudiness
and rain; second, change of winds
westward, snow, rising barometer;
third, colder and clearing weather
with winds from the west and north.
knowing that this is almost an infal-
lible order of storm movements, and
weather changes, any intelligent
school boy or girl should be able,
with the assistance of these forecasts
to figure out, with practical precision
what day, if not what hour, when
the changing phases of storm and
weather will strike his or her local
ity. Not only so, but with reliable
barometer at hand, also a companion
hygrometer, any one should be able
to say whether or not approaching
storms are going to prove violent, or
be attended by heavy or little snow
or rainfall.
A reactionary storm period will
run its course on Tuesday, Wednes-
day, Thursday and friday, the 18th
to the 18th. This period will be at
fected by the first stages of the