The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-06-01
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Lightning 'ro iucts-ant,
The phuu1m,nm known as lightning
followed hy rolling pyorbomfiug IMPORT,
recognized n5 thunder. o. common tu
Wide zone uf thr earth, but 30 BIS not gonor
nlly known that there are localities where
the vivid flashes and the doafouing poals
ar' inoDs-aut The most notable % these
continuous LIGHTNING districts Is on the
eastern CH1st Of tho island ~ san Dlmin.
Cu. q lcndIng w nhcr ~ the group of tho
West Indies
II isnot meant that She lightning is here
continuous the gear round, but that With
the commencement uf the rainy SEASON
tonnes this 1iEzag feature ~ electric illumi-
nation, which g. thcn continuous day and
night for WEEKS The storm center IS not
continuously local, but shifts over con
siderable area, and as thunder Is seldom
heard over greater distance than eight
miles, and the lightning in the night will
illuminate SO ns to bc seen 80 miles, there
may bc days In some localities whore the
twinkle on the sky is In continuous sue
cession, while the rolling reports are alb
sent Then again come davs and nights
when the electric artillery is piercing In
it, dctonations, aud especially is this the
case when two separate local cloud center-
join, a. IL WERE I'm an electrical dual. and,
as sometimes occurs, third participant
appears 10 add 10 the elemental warfare
Then thera is "a blazing sky with binding
viyidncss and stunning poals that seem to
pin the listener to the earth Long before
the echoes can die away come others, un-
iii the auricular mechanism seems ham
mercd into chaos.
Just how and why IL Is that there l. here
generated 50 immense an amount NJ cleo
tricity as tn keep up such an inces ant ig
milton Is one of those problems that can
only bc solved when sufficient dat are at
hand to work upon. 1t is prohal that,
with the commencement Of the rainy sea
son this region is the border OF opposing
air and ocean currents whose friction has
something TO do in the case. This would
tend to bring into contact opposing clouds
varlously charged, and as lightning is tine
passing of electricity from one cloud to
another seeking equilibrium, or q pass
ing of the fluid from a cloud 20 the earth,
1t is probable that I'm this cuntinu a fric-
tion Of currents may be found "A Starting
point to unravcl the mystery. IL is in
swirling and opposing cloud strata cspc-
cially wher, these get into gyratuiy mo
tion, that electrical phenomena are most
abundant, just as in an even, uniform flow
Oh CLOUDS such ul-turDithce Is ruIef ana
often entirely absent
1t would not seem, from the mea -ur in
formation bearing ON this matter tnat the
electrical interchange Is between the clouds
and the earth, as there is no reference
made to what are termed lightning strokes
when the descending current strikes a
tree, building or other object, or strikes
the ground directly. But it would certainly
be trying ordeal on any fairly balanced
nervous organization 10 behold a blazing
sky for days and nights together and lis
ten to the inccssaut rolling OF the thunder
until the very senses seemed stupelgd TO
further recognition Happily such lOcali-
ties have bccn rarely bestowed by nature,
and this one is Stunned by the dushy ma,
| tivcs, and the moro advanced fauna, when
the wet season approaches, leave it by ia
stinct. .-Pittsburg Dispatch.