The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-02-20
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storms. thatsthey have no tendency to
run toward it or to run upon If, and
that what geographers and seamen have
always said about the Gulf Stream as. a,
(" weather breeder and g storm king .
is absurd. I think it can be demon
strated that this welEknown popular
belief is not absurd. ss.ses .ssz,... -.
It is.an observation as old as Aristotle
that the storms of the middle attitudes
in the Northern hemisphere advance
from west 10 east, This is obviously
partly due to the fact that the winds on
their eastern sides are sousherly, that
they come from the equatorial regions,
and hence are highly chargedlwith aaue5
Gus vapor. This vaper is absolutely es-l
sential to the sustensnce of the storms
Moreover, the law of storms requires
that the southerly winds should enter
the storn1-vortex on the eastern side
and as this is the side on which the,
greatest quantity of vapor is found. and
the side of greatest condensation, of the
greatest evolution of latent heat. hence
of the greatest aerial rarefaction and
barometric fan, to this side the heavier
from the west viii push as into a
great hollow. Thus do we actually
find that all storms formed west of the
Gulf Stream are actually propagated
toward it. 1t may be argued from the
above facts that the anti-trade winds
are thus maintained by storms inees-
sanity making the circuit of the globe
within the temperate zone. But in re-
atty, instead Of being the effect of storm
influence, the anti-trades are originated
by independent solar agency, as are the
trades, and. they are potential and cans us
al in producing the eastward progress
i7sion Of all cyclones. It must be con
ceded that the pressure. OF. vast aerial
currents does. serve to force the meteor
along with them as the river eddy is
carried down. stream with the water cur
/ rent otherwise it is impossible to ex-
plain the westward progression of tropi-
cal hurricanes, While, yet in the band
OF easteearly trade ,winds the storm will
.invariabl.y work its way OF; be propagat-
ed towards the most humid. region, un-
less mechanically borne in another di-
reetion by the great atmospheric cur
rent in which it is often innbedded as an
eddy in. river. The cyclone tracks
over all the. oceans lie in, the central
bands of the great ocean currents of
1 high temperature and great evaporation,
and the band of cyelonic violence is Of
ten beautifully eoterminous with the
sharply marked edge, of 1.-THE Gulf
4 Stream. Thus, in the Pacific.s the Loo
ehoO Islands lie just in the path of the
KJro Siwoy the great Pacific Gulf
Stream Of the Japanese, and are visited
by the most fearful typhoons !; but the
4 Bonlni Islands, IN the same parallel, bat
on the extreme margin of the Kuro ST.
wo, have very mild and moderate
storms. eff a7storrn commences INV
where IN the vicinity of the Gulf
Stream, it naturally tends toward that
stream because, y as Loomis says. s'here
is the greatest amount of vapor to be
precipitated, and when a storm has
once encountered the Gulf Stream II
continues to follow that stream in its
progress eastward. /" Vessels and Tan
anese junks, dismasted in gales off the
Asiatic coast, have been drifted for
many days in the current of the Kuro
Slwo to the coast of California, lust as
West India beans, cocoanuts, and vege-
tables have been drifted to Iceland.
Greenland, and Spitzbergen, on the ex-
tension of the Gulf Stream. Accord
ing to all meteorological observations
Of the tracks of storms, we are warrant
ed IN believing that cyclones and hurri-
canes do, as a matter of fact and atmos-
1 pheric law, run on the hot currents Of
the sea as naturally as the water-course
clings to its bed. Practical seamen.
though unable to explain the fact are
always ON the lookout for these furious
gales when sailingon the axialt lines of
the Gulf Stream, on the hot -Mozap,-
bique current {the Gulf Stream of the
Indian Ocean, and on the dark super
heated waters of the Kuro Siwe of the
Pacific. .f aa 9aixoe.
So dangerous and disastrous are the
storms which course along the Gulf
Stream that sailors avoid it. and the
i American Sailing Directions and those
| of the British Admiralty advise all YES
sells, sailing from the West Indies to
4 New York or Liverpool, to beware of
taking advantage of its current, al
| though it would help them along from
three to four miles an hour. Close, OBJ
servation has traced these storms con-
tinuously from the Florida coast to New
York, through Redield's labors, and
thence to England, through the record
| of the Cunard steamships, and thou
| sands of detached observation.-.Sci
| monthly.
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