The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-05-21

he typhoons and monsoons that sweep LILO
casts Of Japan and China.
The greatest cold observed in each sew
raj month was az follows CELSIUS, Cent?
Iade):
October Gath -20O D..
Noyem Der 30th gro q.
December esd $40 L.
January 25th --45oT. .r
February Cd --43o g.. ...a @
March Goth -390 D..
We have twice had extraordinary register
,f the barometer, viz:
Dec. 9th ut 9 .. m.-7S2o (oo) NJ. m.
Feb. 18th ut 6 a. m.-7SSo do 90
The largest atmospheric pressure up 70
April LIST was: 500 ,oo>
December slst at . a. m.-7Ss.s wv
Min.
The whole winter was very stormy, WIFI
almost constant wind, near the earth's sur
face. between NV and NNW, though III
atmospheric strata but slightly above 'n,''
to Judge by the direction OF the CLOUDS,
m equally constant current from the De
predominated, which, when excepe'ona'iy
II descended to the surface, carried with IL
warm and proporticnaliy dry air. Inc
cause of this can be easily accounted ioi'
when Il Ia considered that the Behring'S
Strait forms gate way, fanked by toiera-
bly, high mountains, within the sweep Vi
the warm currents OF the Pacific and the
cold Currents Of the Arctic.
Hare the winds are determined pretty
near, on the same principles as the drait
through o doorway between warm anu
cold room, that Is to say, the cold air must
descend from the cold to the heated space
and the warm current takes precisely the
reverse course. Besides the warmth ana
dryuess Of the southerly or southeastern
wind Ia partially determined BY the noun
taips. of considerable elevation, which, the
natives say, are found IN the interior Oh inc
Tschuktschin Peninsula. They impars W
the maritime winds the properties OF the
"Fohn." ...... n-..r
fFoen, pronounced with the vocal SOUND
of the French Ecu; 1t means, peie'e'
q wind deprived Of moisture. 20. 3D.
our ,viaos. wi.ls s.s.s -from tina SW TO
m. >oontj
.nuspneric currents, wnIcn az certain oio-
walton came In contact, depends the rapid
ty with which the sky, In the vicinity Of
Behring's Strait, becomes overcast and
again clear.
The celebrated Behring's Strait voyager
Rodgers, present Admiral In the Ameri
can Navy, had already directed attention &C
this phenomenon, and very aptly compared
II to the rise and fall of tho curtain In
theatre, Frvsa 80. p III m FEN-E .
II E-, WIND DRIVEN SNOW.
In our notations upon the weather Their
was made distinction between snsyre, tina
Ia fall OF snow without wind, and yrssns
that is snow-storm without falling snow
There was no great fall Of snow, but Their
was NO continued mild weather In the win
ter sufficient to thaw the surface, thereb
forming hard crust Of snow that did fall
and whatever there was became 30 loos
that the least gust Of wind scattered IL
every direction. In storm and strong win
the snow was raised to the higher atmo'
pheric strata, alling the air with such
dense fog OF snow duet that objects fe
meters distant could not DO seen. 1t wa
impossible in such wsatherto keep the roa
open, and anyone who went astray woul
inevitably be lost, IL indeed he could nj
do like the Tsch do, being snowbound, 50
fer himself to be covered up in . WELDON
drift, resign himself, and await the ce
sation of the stom. But even with feeb
wind and clear sky snowstorm OF th
kind would scurry along some few inch
above the surface in the direction Of q
wind, !. a., NV 60 Sc. Such, Of coura
formed drifts everywhere, where the Lea
hollow or prominence gave protecti'
against the wind, and 1t buried more
fectualiy, only slower, any stray object Al
the beaten road than the yre-snow Qallil
SNOWY did.
rhe mass of water, which In the form
snow 10 moved by this incessant and sw
current across the northeast coast TO trat
farther south, may be compared to :
enormous masses Of water that flow in {
giant rivers OF the earth, and plays SUI
GENTLY conspicuous role in climatic POI
point OF view, among others - vehicle
cold to the boroal forest fields, to b TAX
note OF BY meteorologists.
SUGGESTIONS coNcERSISG IEsTRuMEN'
/ Tho moisture OF the dir was detsrmin
n well with Angust's psychrometr1
yanasure's hygrometsr; but do not
dsye these Instruments, with 200 o-4'
give results TO DO depended on. to viii
mast be added thst hygremetry, Wit
there 10 question OF setting up psynhl
metre and hygronetrs during . winter
the high north, has not the meteorologi
significance that has been rspeatedly clai
cd for Il. To be sure the instruments
placed In . detached wicker cage at ~
elevation above the ground - n b o
venisntly read Of, bot while the SNOW
drifting continually IL II impossible
keep 1t clear Of ics, and the air which '
originally perfectly dry here becomes :
urated with moisture through the evApo
ton or the snow in the vicinity and r.
the snow dust which whirls around on
surface OF the ground. In order, thereto
to determine the degree Of moisture Of
air I should recommend 70 future vo
gers In these drift covered TRACTS to
onoe weigh the water which . given volu
OF cir contains By rsosiviog Il in taos o
tanning chlor-oalcIum, calcinsd sulphats
copper, (blus stoDe), Or sulphurie =
An Instrument for the purpose weud