Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1873-06-24
Monthly Weather Review.
May. 1874.

STORMS.
During this month ten storms have
trsverscl Tie country east o. The Rocky
Mountains
Nav1.o and 3.-Apparently orig
mating or The last car o. April IN The
Rockr Mountains. The centre q TINS
storm progressed eastward over Nan
sas. Missouri, northern Indiana, south
err Michigan and Lake Erie, moving
thence soutleastwar5 over Peuusy va
ma and MARYLAND 70 the Atlantic sending
on; q branch Oh The p over Ohio, \ y
GINA. Chesapeake Bay and thence OF
the coast. Is passage was ATTENDED ~
heavy rains and brisk and high winds
from The Mississippi 10 the Atlantic sleei
and snow falling n New England.
? MAY. 70 S-Aqpearl1s lrst N
southern Texas. This Storm moved slow
II Dcrf heas- ward over Arkansas, Nilsson
:. Illinois. southern Michigan and Lake
Huron. The highest winds during IL
massage. were experienced on The coast
q Texas. The Lower LAKES and The mid
die Atlantic coast.
s. Mav.s and 9.-Develcpcd among
TIE mountains Of North Carulins and
moved northeSstwarl along the middle
Atlantic coast accom- 2uitd by ht2N!
rains and high winds.
Z. Man y and 10.-Arpeare3 fr.t IN
. Kansas and moved eastward over Ms
sour. anl thence rapidly DOrtbeastward
over Illinois. lnlian3. Michigan and
southern Lake Huron into Canada
Heavy rains fell in northern llinios anc
eastern ly,va. and q bell - lighter rains
ana brisk winds. from four hundred 10
eight hundred miles in width, attended
its progress
s. May, 10. y and l2.-Like 81. this
s.orD seemed 10 develop among the
mountains o. North Carolina, passing
no-thea.twarl over Virginia, eastward
over Chesapeake hay, and again north
eastward along The coast 20 New Brun-
wick.
! G May. . and l3.-Traveled from Min
ueSota very rapidly eastward over the
Lakes. =. Lawrence valley and northern
View England 10 Nova Scotia, causing
light rains and high winds Throughout
i1s course
:. Nav. 13. i and l5.-From The
plains Of kansss and Indian Territory
tLis ztorm-ceutrv novel eastward over
southern Missouri soltheastward into
Alabama. and then again eastward Oh
the coast. rapidly 6eminising in intensi-
X after crossing Che Mississippi Con.
. siderable rain fell in al the Southern
States. except Texas. but no dangeroui
winds were reported,
:. Nav. i. IL and 20.-Deyelopin.
in the southwestern plains this defres
: sion Travelled rather slowly northeast
p ward from the Indian Territory owe
Lakes Michigan and Huron into Cana
da. attended by rain-belis and fresh Z
brisk winds throughout the Lake II
? giou ana western and northwestern sc,
: lions o. the country.
: = Nav. q 70 2a-FTom Montan
tins disturbance moved slowly casiWaf
: over Dakota crossing, with sOmewhi
c increased velocity Minnesota the lpp'
= Lakes. the Il Lawrence valley, Man
= and Nova Scotia, causing by lis SO
e. r,-arress. several DAYS Of cloudy al
= rainy weather over The entire portion
= the country. i was during IT. passa.
Z over the NOrthwes; that the terrible Al
p destructive tornado swept throu.
Iowa.
10. Two depressions, one slowly {
VI cending from the upper Missouri Nall'
3 The other moving uCrihward over ha
sas aud Nebraska seemed 10 unite
Il southern Dakota 70 form this storm-ct
p tire. From Dakota il moved sOuihea
ward into Iowa. northeestward 10 L.
Z Superior, aud thence nearly Que e
OF over the ST. Lawrence valley Ma
and New Brunswick. t. rain-be
= reached nearly the whole country q
OF the Mississippi. and brisk W1DEs.
4, creasinr occasionally g 1l-l, were
- perience throughout ths northern =
= tons
SA TENF'T-I. TIL
Tbe fcrurs.-afuf'eF Tor The last no
were generally lower iilHn 10y Nay =,
the chief exceptions being kfT
Orwero aud Grand Haven. - toIni
= Cd with the mean IaE fuInperai'1fl.s
% series Of wears, the therInametrlr fi-r
y. for May. 1873, show excess q TTarE
,es over northern Lake Michigan, north
Michigan. Lake Huron, s9Hthern %
Kentucky, Tennessee and eastern NJ
Ike achuesefts. bat a deficiency q temp
"a. tu~e in kansas Missouri, Iowa, Mn
nd soaa Wisconsin. Indiana, Illinois
:. the Culf states. Florida and souihe
- err Georgia. and generally ihrough
ne Atlantic States and the Lower Lake
N zion. The regions Of minimum
TO- fan cnd fhermometrid Ina<lma ne
IL correspond.
as RAINFALL.
ST. Az comnared with the mean May 7
of falls the rainfall returns or last
n a show deficiencies in the northern
=. western parts of Lake superior, /
~ Michigan and in the entire cOul
ton stretching from the ST. Lawrence Va
the TO Maine, and thence over the 10
and l-akrs, western New York and ives
"a PENNSYLVANIA. West Virginia, Ohio.
1iiN trial Indiana and southeastern lllil
ng- Excess of rain occurred in Iowa. Mis-
nly ri. eastern Kansas. east Tennessee
,da also along the AZ antic scaboard, ex
- neat Portland, Maine, and Savan
Georgia, and very great excess
IN. 200 10 l4.5s inches over the Gull -
CO. -
~ The River reports for the month
liu- a iirht decline in tho Red Missouri
red ers from the beginning 90 the midi
ned the mouth, aftcr which a decided
90 occurs until the end. The ArNa
80 rose slowly az Little Rock until the
- after which a. subsidci slowly
w, Mississippi has alternately risen anu
on en-. nj IT. Paul the water was seven
,me I gwer ON the 10Th than on the BIS
by which sa'es &c ec' ,,c;ag os -, Wv s ~
three inches At Cairo The river
low 81 on tho SSih and highest on
hi 16 n the cxireIaos wing ae"n' 'hi