New-York tribune., 1868-04-23
THE WEATHER.

In answer to query propounded Dy IHE
TRIBUNE as 10 the Of the climatic changes we are
now experiencing correspondent, who has written
treatise on meteOrology, sends us the following;
Tho mysterious agent In Nature which governs the
weather has for ages engaged the attention Of meeoroo
gss and those known to be versed in cmatoogy, with
out leading to the establishment Of any nxed theory
There however three great influences operating on
the American continent from which some deductions can
with safety be made. Those the great ocean
currents Of the Atlantic and Pacific in connection with
the Gn stream %ce springs up on t9e % cCast
ward toward the European continent The other great
climatic Influence the cold currents Of air and water
descending from Hudson's and Bains Bay toward the
Gulf OF Mexico hngging the shores OF New-found-
land Nova Scotia and the United States, and crowdng
down the isothermal lines along the east Atlantic
coast until the region OF the tropics fs reached
ne sa 0a tsnca toTsTd the
American continent has no doubt greater influence
land to the Red River OF the North thence into the
Valley OF the Mississippi than can he easily imagined,
20 s vss CARVING IKE S the in EUROPE
modifying influence entirely across North America
This current OF warm water asa m a nogS n1 1aa
greatly nodfes the temperature OF ALASKA and British
America west OF the coast range Of mountains ana also
that of Washington Territory and Oregon, sending Its
influence southward over California These great ocean
currents. no doubt act and react In such mysterious
hard TO be explained or defined. The wind boweth
where ste and THOU nearest the sound thereof and
caDss not tell whence u cometh and Wither IL goeth
saGn are the wonders OF Nature
HAVING repeatedly experienced the cold north winds,
pefor and sehdlng wavS 81 cold air sohthwara infer
that this explains the low Temperature Qtieg producing
Killing frostsl which pervaaes tho temperate climate OF
the United States This cold influence no doubt at clT
tain seasons Of the year, flowing stu further south
causes the "NOrthers" which peryade TeHas-the cold
from high attitudes falling By It's weight 70 the earths
surface The great Of the cold In North America
including the British Possessions and the United states
of the Rocky Mountains has been attributed 70 the
quantity OF land stretching toward the North Pole,
great proportion OF which involved In perpetual Win.
ter The Wind. In passing ovor this snow and lceelad
region brings. IL In said, severity Of cold which nothing
resists In sweeping Baius and Hudsons Bays The
whole Of the central and eastern portion OF America
north Of the hy-hfth parallel. may be considered
frozen inhospitabe region Between $50 and t' north
the climate is still severe much as TO retard and Kill
OF the cereals and culinary vegetables the cold OF
Of Winter Is steady and intense, and the snow which Do
gins TO fan in November, remains til May. The above
described region includes tho Cold and FriGd Zones OF
America. Prom this source the cold winds descend
Inward with mighty wave. far Into the Sprng
aud summer months OF the Temperate Zone These Sc
we're influences varying their intensity In different
and years-hence our cold aud changeable eli
mate is owing to the prevalence OF north winds Yours
AC, d.