The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-07
MISCELLANY.
How the Cold Waves Travel and Whence
They Come.
Their Velocity Scarcely That of an Ex.
press Train.
Texas Press AssOciatiOn-A Word From
the President.
Some Other Miscellaneous Matter of
Much Interest.
To the Readers of all Tastes.
To the Readers of all Tastes,
Some Impressive Facts of meteorological
Phenomena.

Cold waves, so.called-a name for which
We are indebted to recent meteorological
science-do not appear to move in some in.
stances much faster than II railroad express
train. They vary, however, in their rate OF
motion. Where do they come from? 1t is
not asy to say. 1t might be found, il one
could travel ut express speed from the
mountains of Montana and the frozen re-
gions farther north, that the cold continued
all the way to eastern Alaska, and on 10
Behring Straits, with even agreater degree
of intensity. In fact the coolest re-
gion is probably the wide expanse
west. and especially northwest
of Hudson Bay, in the neighborhood of the
magnetic pole. A cold wave is wave
| of heavy air, following the rarefed track
! OF Glow barometer" and changing the
rarelied and milder atmosphere (Which is
usually also stormy to one OF clear, cold
skies; Il heavy air full OF tonic power, and
celebrating and hunger.producing to
sound and healthy animal life. The estab.
| lishment of the modern government
weather observation stations with their ap-
| planes, including the electric telegraph
and daily press has enabled the country
/ to see and comprehend something of the
movements of these frequent cold waves.
The movement is as marked as the advance
ola veritabe sea wave. The telegraph her.
aids its start from the Rocky Mountains,
| Ut always seems to start there, though IN
fact IL rarely deos-having its sorgin
much farther north), ANA It's advance can
| be timed like that OF Il railroad train. It's
speed varies from forty to sixty, or some
times even seventy, miles an hour; usually
it would seem about fifty. II rolls over To
country a real wave, an aereal counterpart
on the shore of its Congener, the tidal wave
OF the ocean, and its direction is usually
from the northwest TO the southwest. Ii
sweeps slowly down from the
frozen wastes OF the Atlantic shore, and
the equally frigd wilds Of the American
mainland in the Arctic circle to the Allan
TIC Coast--its breadth reaching all the way
from Nova Scotia to Cape Hatteras, and
frequently making its chilling presence
felt as far south as Florida. The Der
mudas, which lie just south OF the
Gulf Stream, little over 600 mile.
almost due east of Charleston-teeling tn,
influence of our cold waves" very per
ceptibly. That solitary little group o
small low.ying islands which eau BIT
reached by steamer from New York in tn,
same time that it wonld take to 20 tC
Savannah, happen to lie on the leewar(
side of the gulf stream; and that great ther
mai current of the ocean forever save
them from frost. and keeps them in sprin,
foliage all the winter; but, while it fnell
tempers and modiiies the north wind, i
cannot quite rob it of all its intrinsic char
acterAand the result is wind that NAV b.
at times cool, aud frequently boisterous
but never really cold; and those lionel,
islands, surrounded by wide.reaching cora
reefs, have all winter pleasant climate o
spring, That is almost all that they eve
know of our winter cold wave. "-TNey
! York Sun.