, 1908-10-21

clouds we quote below from our notes for the
8 DAYS from Monday the 28th Sept. to Mon.
day the 9Th Of October.
Monday, 2sth Sept. Carefully tested a
Quantity of gauzy and notified cirrus-was
moving from N. w. by N.
Tuesday,, goth Sept. From about N. W.
at 7 pm. Slow from N. w. by N. at 2 p. m.
S .. N. from N. w.
Wednesday, 5Oth Sept. 8 an. from N. W.
about S p. m. from N. by W.
1hursddv, 1st Oct. 8 a. m. N. by E. at
mod. rate. 2 p. M. from N.N.E.
Friday, End Oct. 1p.m., very light cir.
rus, some in streaks, but partly in other
forms-some so light as 10 be scarcely visi-
ble-moving from N. E. by N.
Saturday, 3rd Oct. Light cirrus at 8 a m.
from about N.N.E. Later in day seemed to
shift eastwards, nearly, if not quite, to N. E.
Seen down to dusk.
Sunday 4th Oct. 7 a. m. cirrus from #.
by N, rather abundant, of cirro-stratus type;
moving slowly, but direction clearly ascer-
tanned. Gam, from east. q pm. from E.
by N. (slow). S p. m. about the same. IL
pm. (moonllghD no motion perceptlble in
the high clouds.
Momduy, 9Th Oct. 7 a. IN. cirrus from n.
N. W. "a few beautiful and light clouds Of
fbrous and plumose structure "a contrast to
vesterday'a(. II M. From N. N. w.
The Interpretation of which is, that the
forward movement of the cyclone towards
the north first ehowed itse,f here on We'd
nrsday the 30th September, when the r-
diating point of the high clouds shifted from
NV. nearly to north Ito n. by W.) From
that time the cyclone appears to have kept
command Of the high clouds TIL it got too far
away (perhaps had passed the both paraliel)
and then the control was given up, the eff ct
being seen here late on Sunday evening.
On Monday the 5th the high clouds went
back to N. N. W., near to which point they
kept for 3 days. 1t might have been ex-
pected that they would have approached
nearer to west than this of course there
was a reason why they did not but as this
begins another story it must be dealt with
separately.
We saw above that when the second cyclone
of September, having advanced far up the
Atlantic, gave up thu control here of the
high clouds on the 4 h instant they fell back
on the sta to N. n. w, but not farther.
This Yves suspicious, but trey continued to
come from about that direction on the 9Th
and 7th. Ga the 9th, however, the point
of origin shifted to North. This was first
noticed at noon, but had perhaps happened
much carrier, possibly during the previous
night. On seeing it. We entered in the note
book this question "Does this mean q
Glow" far west in the Caribbean 2" And,
after taking an observation at 5 p. m, we
were able to answer the question thus: at
seems SO, for cirrus now moving distinctly
from N.N.E." On the following morning (9th)
the point of origin for the high clouds had
shifted to Il. by N. This was a remarkably
quick change, and seemed to show that the
cyclone was not then moving nortbward,
but was moving nearly eastward, crossing the
track of the steamers from New York.
Fortunately the Guiana did not leave that
port till the 9th, so that the cyclone had
crossed the track long before she came
down to the same spot In the early morn
ing of the 10th and at noon, the high clouds
were coming from e. N. e., but at 8 p M
from N. N W.-the cyclone had lost control.
For the origin and movements of this
supposed cy clone VS. have no positive eyid-
ence beyond the high cloud movements:
but in the New York times we find a notice
(reprinted below from which it appears that
there was a cyclone around Florida, the
Bahamas and eastern Cuba on the 2nd,. Bird
and 4th October. The nature of this move
ment is not very clear, but it is plain that