Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-05-25

outward as in the high that it ascends
as it approaches the center of the de-
preston, sometimes causing rain or snow
as it cools by expansion during its as
cent, or as it encounters commlngling
strata of air of lower temperature than
its own.
''He knows that while our atmosphere
extends upward to an altitude of prob
ably 100 miles it is so elastic and it's eN-
pansion is so rapid as it recedes from
the earth that half of its mass lies below
the three mile level and that our storms
and cold waves are simply great sWirls
OF eddies in the thin lower stratum of
probably not more than five miles in
thickness; that the air above the fvemile
level probably flows on serenely eastward
without being disturbed by our most
severe storms; that are high pressure
areas and low pressure areas alternately
drift eastward in periods that average
about three days each; that they are not
in any sense the product of chance, but
that they are part of that great Divine
economy that provides for the seed time
and the harvest.
Storms Travel Eastward.
''He knows that the average easterly
track of the storms slowly migrates with
the sun, pursuing a course along but
not parallel with more northerly ATTITUDES
in summer than in winter: that four
seventies Of all our storms come from the
north plate of the Rocky mountains and
pass from this arid and sub-arid region
easterly over the lakes and New Eng
land with but scant rainfall; that the
greater part of the remaining three-sev-
enths have their inception in the arid
regions of our southwest states, and that
as they move nOrtheastward they can be
nearly always counted on to give bounti-
full rainfall from the time they reach the
lower Mississippi valley until they pass
off our Atlantic coast, and that many
of them cross the Atlantic and affect the
continent of Europe: that few and by
far the most severe wind and rain storms
that touch any portion of our country
originate in the West Indies and travel
in nOrthWesterly direction until they
touch our gulf or south Atlantic coast,
when they recurve to the northeast and
sweep along the Atlantic seaboard.
Prom many years observation in
daily watching the formation, progress
sion and dissipation of storms he knows
full well that at times they suddenly.
by an accretion of force not shown by
our observations taken at the bottom of
the ocean of air, develop dangerous and
unexpected energy, or that they pursue
a course not anticipated in his foreca ST: :
or that the barometer at the center of
the storm rises without any premonition
and gradually dissipates the energy of
the scyclonic whirl; that at times in sum
mer come periods almost of stagnation
in the drifts of the highs and lows
and that at such time if high (heavy
body of air) rests over the southeast
portion of the country and a low eight
body of air. rests over the northern
Rocky mountain region, there will result
what is popularity known as a warm
wave for the air will steadily flow from
the southeast, where the pressure is
greater, toward the northwest, where
the pressure is less, and receiving con-
slant accretions of heat from the hot
radiating surface of the earth, without
any whirls or eddies to mix the upper
and lower strata, finally attains a tenn
perature that is almost unbearable to
animal life, and that this superheated
condition continues until the low in the
West begins more actively to gyrate and
move eastward mixing in its course
strata of unequal temperature and pre-
cipitating the welcome thunder show
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