The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-11-29
DECEMBER WEATHER
Here is What Hicks Promises for the
Month of December.

A reactionary storm period is cen
trail on. the End, Bird and 4th. The
opposition of Jupiter on November
18th, will naturally hold over in
his disturbing Influence with the
opening days of December, The con-
and SatGrn a M s ase add Of to eorm ns
at this time. Look for falling baro-
meter, change to warmer, cloudiness
and rain as these disturbances come
on. The rain will soon merge into
snow, winds will soon drift to north
westerly, the barometer will react to
higher, change to much colder will
come out of the northwest.
A regular storm period is central
on the 9Th extending from the 9th
to the 18th TheN moon is at last
quarter, in apOgee and on the celes-
tial equator on the 9Th. A Mercury
period begins about the 9Th, the
winter solstice period also begins at
this time, all added to the Jupiter
and electrical crisis, which is cen
trail on December 18th each year.
A rapid development of the storm
disturbances will very probably occur
at the outset of this period. Falling
barometer and reaction to mucn
warmer, with tendency to winter
lightning and thunder, will be natur-
al on and following the 9Th. Very
low barometer, and threatening
weather generally, will start east
ward from western extremes by the
18th to Sth, and from about the Sth
to 18th, these conditions will widen
and deepen into winter storms OF
great severity They will begin in
the form Of warm, winter rains, with
but these tropical features Will soon
break down and instead thereof
regular mercurial, December biz
card will most probably organize in
the northwest and sweep south and
east over the country. The culmi-
mating crisis of these storms will lie
between Saturday the Sth, ana We'd
five days of the tn, before and aft
er, expect many peculiar phenomena
in the way of magnetic and electric
al manifestations-not necessarily
in the form of thunder and lightning
but phenomenal, natural currents,
surcharging the atmosphere and dis
turbing the wires and all telegraph!c
appliances. The. Aurora Borealis
most likely will illuminate the north
ern heavens, and seismic, earth
quake disturbances will show great
unrest. Notwithstanding astrono-
mical conditions at this time will
keep up and prolong agitated and
stormy weather, we are to expect
sweeping high barometer, high gales
from the northwest and change, to
very cold about the 18th to 14th.
1t must be remembered that the
planet Mercury is the sleet: god, and
that we must expect much heavy and
perhaps destructive sleet and ice,
breaking down the wires and trees
and shrubbery, during the continu-
ance of the Mercury period, shown
by the storm diagram to extend from
A reactionary storm period is cen
trail on Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
the 18th, 18th and 10th. This
period falls at the centers Of the
Mercury and the winter solstice
periods, with the moon at conJunc-
ton with earth and sun at solar
eclipse node on the l4th; Ihere are are
peculiar and very severe storms and
other perturbations in earth and air
about this period. These disturb
ances will center on, an within
forty-eight hours of Friday, the l4th.
The movements of the barometer
will be Of striking g. e n .g1sin .
promptly and p plainly ay sran an ee
mental forces. The moon will hang
far into the south at this time, which
fact viii tend to pull the atmos-
pheric tides from the north, thus ad,
ding to the prospects OF cold ana
blizzardous storms OF rain. snow and
sleet. The weather may be counted
on to deepen into greater severity
from this period forward, bringing
back some of the cold waves and
drifting SHOWS of the winters OF
our daddles.
regular storm period is central
on the goth, extending from the 18th
to the 23rd This period may be
said to lie at the very Crisis or
earth's winter solstice, the north
pole, and hence the whole northern
hemisphere, are now turned to thelr
greatest angle from the sun G,s anu inc me
to the boreal, inter-stellar space are
the widest open. The Jupiter in
fluence will take a firmer grip on our
environments, and all phenomena
will take on more resolution and
strength. The moon is in perigee on
the 18th, is on the celestial equator
on the goth, and at first quarter on
the list, and winter int commences enc
ology 70 state the matter bluntlly
and colloquially we figure. that this
!.corker" and a hummer. Expect
unusually low barometer on ana nc.
touching the goth. attended by
heavy rain and rushing winds, and
perhaps winter thunder storm.
All these will merge suddenly into
driving sleet and snow, with a VERT,
able December blizzard possible and
probable. The chances are good
that the storms Of the reactionary
period 18th to 10th, will be pro
ionged into this period, and that
they will be. greatly j led on n
and not far from the 2Oth; ms Is
another one of the periods when
should never be allowed to approach
without the most pa lassaRab9v n ana
sible. for the housing and feeding OF
live stock. Human beings can bet
ter shift for themselves in such p
emergencies, while dumb and 6eE
lowing and freezing and starving
animals stand expectant and depend
ent amid the pelting, overwhelming
storms and weather. Whatever SINS
and inhumanities we may have TO
answer for at the final judgment bar
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