Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-11-11


To the Editor Of The Evening Star.
November a low" suddenly appears on the
borders of the gulf. in the neighborhood of the
mouth of the Mississippi, and moves over the
country toward the northeast The result of
this is good but cold storm, with abundance
Of rain for the south and east portions OF the
moving ON this line tor months. and that &C
counts for the exceedingly dry weather through
out this portion of the country.
Most of the flows" this summer and fall
have moved on far north line covering the
regions of the lakes and the St. Lawrence A
few have moved up the Mississippi valley but
they were too far away to affect the eastern sec
tions. few have also moved along the shores
of the gulf. around the coast of Florida and I'D
the Atlantic seabOard But they were prevented
from producing any rain to speak of in this
eastern section BY the highs" which one after
another moved over this southern country and
forced the lows of the land
The lows that travel on these lines may
very appropriately be termed the diagonal
lows" for they move not on the lines of lati-
tude nor longitude, but on lines which are
compromise between the two. These are the
lows whereby the eastern half of the United
States are watered. In the winter most of the
Snow storms of this region come from these
diagonal lows. In the spring and fall we
also get our severe storms from these lows
travelling on these general and low lines Their
moving on line or from point south of one
locality. wherever that may be, the storm is
cold, rather than warm, as with the north
low. One of the results of not having these
lows" come up from the south on these lines
this year the absence of the September
gale.
A the wind is toward the slow, these
lows" from the south produce the north winds,
which are the cold winds of the northern hemis-
phere. If the ''rainmakers'' had continued
their sport of firing bombs up into the air fool
ish people might think that thereby this rain
had been produced. But if they would consult
the weather map and see how the storm centers
pass over the country they would readily see
the fallacy of any such attempts. Indeed,
when they commenced their firing November
l there was low" in almost the same locality
as the one on the morning of November 8, but
instead OF it moving as this one has it moved
almost due north up the Mississippi valley to
the lakes. where il turned 70 the eastward,
thereby going around and producing very
little effect in the locality where these bombs
were being fired. And yet. on the whole, am
glad that they were fred, Notwithstanding their
great nuisance, for it conclusively proved that
even with a low" very near so near that we
even got some precipitation from 1.-THE air
the while full of moisture-eyen with all this in
their favor the "rainmakers' produced no
scientific results in the line they were striving
for. The only real result was to prove them
selves an intolerable nuisance to a civilized
community.
Another feature about the movement of the
great majority OF these slows" tins fall was the
producing OF the Indian summer effects, which
are the results OF lows moving on the north
line-i. o., the line of the lakes and the ST. Law
renee. Where the Tow" is there the ''high''
cannot be. and the reverse. With these north
flows" there were moderate "highs" moving
across the central portion of the country. This
combination produces the Indian summer.