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How RaIn.FalIs are Produced.

How Raln.Palls are Produced.
1t is now agreed by the best Observers
that our rain-fals are produced by the
clouds in the upper strata Of the atmos-
phere; aud most probably the electric
conditions upon which the fall Of rain de-
pends are to be found only there. The
moisture which the atmosphere gathers by
evaporation is condensed and deposited
as rain only as il is subjected to the agen-
cy Of electric forces. This we may ac-
cept as demonstrated truth. That the
moisture carried off from any spot by
evaporation enters into, the grand. atmos-
pheric circulation, is also fact which any
one can demonstrate to himself by obser,
walton. In every dry time in summer We
see the earth growing day by day dryer,
as the hot sun eyaporates the moisture
from the ground, aud yet The clouds may
gather in the enrly evening only to dis
appear before the next day, when the
same course is repeated Every one who
has ever noticed the weather must have
seen times when it seemed as though il
was trying hard to rain and could not.
From this has come the common proverb
/" All signs fail in dry time" .'
Considerations Of this kind, which have
been arrived at OILY by observation, have
forced meteorologists to abandon locul
causes for the explanation Of rain and
Steinhetz, with others fully recognizes
that the showers Of England originate in
Continental Europe. jour '''' '' p
The true theory of our climate. Of the
yearly supply of moisture by rain, is pro
badly. however, that put forth recently
by Mr., Thomas b. Butler, of Hartford
Connecticut, in work entitled IA con.
else analytical and logical Development
of the Atmospheric System." AS thi,
work was printed for the author" al
outline of its theory will not be amiss
State generally, his theory is that thC
aeaaL condition Of the weather is clear
AID that the changes in it are produced
by currents which originate in the tropics
aud, following, regular laws, circulate il
the upper atmosphere about the earth
producing, or rather inducing, in specia
localities, as they influence or are inauenc
ed by special local causes, the phenomcni
Of the weather. The originating force o
these currents he finds in the electric o.
magnetic forces induced by the sun. 't-
That there is some connection betweel
the spots on the sun and the activity of the
terrestrial magnetic currents has been fo
some time the opinion of philosophers. Ii
the Proceedings Of the Manchester bite
rary and Philosophical Society, for Marcl
s, 1864, is an article by Mr.. Baxendell
Il. r.. A. S., upon "a Periodic Changes il
the Magnetic Condition of the earth an,
in the Distribution of Temperature on it
; surface" In which he says: Z" 1t has lon
= been suspected thatithe same causes whicl
produce the spots on tho suns disk mus
in some way have an important infucne
on the phenomena Of our own atmosphere
The facts now given convert this suspicion
, into u certainty, and it is not, perhaps
too much to say thRt meteorology cal
never take rank as a true science Will
our knowledge of the sun remains in it
present imperfect state. Ni' Other obser
vers have. come to the same conclusion.
3 Steihmetz quotes from Mr.. Fulbroos
the wlll.known writer on rainfall an,
mcteorology, as follows: From exteu
; sive observations he belives he has cstab
: iished the fact that whenever two planet
. form a right line with the EARTH some dis
turbauce connected with their light, cleo
tricity, or magnetic reaction takes plac
in the atmosphere, and a much large
: quantity of especially about tn
: fourth or fifth day after--is the result
: and the greater number Of the more vic
lent and extensive storms and hurricane
have occurred at or about the time 9
this excess of rain, This fact Mr.. Full
! 2 brook assures u.s. says Steinmetz, /" h
! has verified BY the investigation Of tire
= hundred consecutive conjunctions Of plar
cts in longitude, using the registers {
Luke Howard for the vicinity Of Londor
!. between the years Of 1897, 1897 and 1895, il
elusive b... tsl.V s,. ,.o,a..,,.,
: Unqucstionably, the, forces in, actio
9 upon this world are in connection witt
! and influenced by, those operating in tn
universe, The attraction Of ;grayitatior
: which makes the, rain fall, is the sam
! force which ip wider sphere, keeps th
planets in their orbits |; aud drop of de
! assumes its spherical form by, the actio
!, of the same force which rounded the cart
!, y and the sun himself The circulation
y the atmosphere, like that Of the tides,
: caused primarily by the actions Of cosm
: cal forces, and the currents in the atmo
I phere, like those in the oceans, resu
y from the action of universal causes, Fro
= " The Growth of our Theories of Il
9 Weather." by EDWARD HowLAND,
~ Harper's Magazine for January. ~
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