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FORECASTS AND WARNINGS.
By Prof. E. B. Gariuott, in cbareo of Forecast Division.
The first month of the season of tropical storms passed 7ithout the occurrence of gales of hurricane force at any of the islands of the Greater or Lesser Antilles. The most important storm of the month first appeared as a feeble disturbance in the subtropical region north of Cuba on the morning of the 9th. By the morning of the 10th this disturbance hud advanced to the extreme southern part of the Florida Peninsula, with an apparent slight increase in energy, -t that time the following advisory message was sent to all Florida stations, ancl also to Savannah and Charleston:
Disturbance of moderate strength central oil southeast Florida coast. May cause squalls dangerous to small sailing craft along Florida coast and over western Bahamas.
During the next twenty-four hours the center of disturb-nce moved slowly northwestward to the Florida coast south >f Tampa, and on the morning of the 11th, the following advisory message was sent to Gulf and south Atlantic stations from New Orleans to Charleston:
Disturbance of .-slight extent central this mornin<rofT the west Florida coast; evidently moving north westward: may cause severe squalls this afternoon and to-night on the west Florida coast.
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By the morning of the 12th the center of the disturba had advanced to a position over the eastern part of the Gul: Mexico, with an apparent increase in energy, and coast! tions from Xew Orleans to Jacksonville were again advisee the position and character of the storm. The regular mo ing and special reports of the 13th showed the advance of storm toward the mouth of the Mississippi, and at 8 a. a wind velocity of IS miles an hour from the northeast ' reported at Port Eads. On that date southeast storm wa ings were ordered on the west Florida. Alabama, Mississi] and Louisiana coasts, and the following message was t graphed to west Florida and Alabama ports:
Storm center apparently approaching the mouth of the Mississi Considered dangerous for vessels hound for middle and west Gulf jx
Stations on the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts were m fif^d that the storm was increasing iu intensity, and wo probably cause l>risk to high northerly winds the day i night of the loth.
At 8 a. m. of the 14th Port Eads reported a current w velocity of 60 miles an hour from the southeast, with a ms mum veiocitv during the preceding twelve hours of 72 m
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