, 1911-10-18

was near enough to the centre to have foo.
full weather, the wind at one time blowino
IS miles an hOu,. A tremendous Gao n
running and the ship had to lie to for
80 hours. II was a remarkable burr;ooa1
and became we'll known from its havino Io+o.'
advanced on to the tracks of the trans tIan
tic steamship lines. Several beautiful char.
of this storm on successive DAYS were ma
by Mr. Page Of the Washington Wealth.
Bureau and published, along with amnIa
notes, in the Monthly Weather Review for
January 1906. Ii drawing up these charts tba
reports from over a hundred steamers as wall
as from the land stations in Bermuda and tbo
Azores, were used. To the present writer Mr.
Pages paper and charts were of the greatest
interest, for it was by comparing this an
thentic record of the storms course With his
own observations of high cloud movements
over St. Croix during the same time, that he
found out the relation Of the two phenomena.
a relation the existence of which the exDeri-
ence OF each succeeding hurricane season has
fully confirmed.
1t may interest some of our readers to
compare the diagram (No y, showing the
hl9h cloud movements during the assnmad
recent cyclone, with the diagram NO y
showing their corresponding movements
during the cyclone of October 1908 II viii
be seen that in the earlier case the rod;on+
point of the high clouds went mucb f.rtho.
round towards east than in the recent caoo
The reason of the fulness of the move
ment in the former case was that the cvclona
was making its curve already as it was laov-
ing Hayti and was sooE moving to north
east; it passed to the north of st. Croix at n
distance Of over 700 miles moving eastward
and it seems likely that the recent storm bas
curved IN a much higher latitude.
Comparing the general weather conditions
IN the Danish Islands in October 1905 with
those Of the present month we find the same
prevalence Of enlms. The schooner JJ12g0l
then as now, was having long passages. and
turning to our weather notes Of six wears
ago, we read Oct. 1st fine, calm; 2ud. same.
Bird fine, dead calm; 4th cloudy, calm. about
5 p. M. heavy squall from S. giving 151 lines
rain; 9Th, sky covered with cumuIus and
nimbus, drizzly rain; from Il u. ~, Aear,
rain from about W.S.W. (22 linesr GIN
fine, Light breeze from Sc; It'll fine. hght
breeze from Sc, calm evening; Sth fine. calm.
IN forenoon very light breeze from E.S.E, eve
ming dead calm; 9th fine, sky clear, dead calm.
calm all day. From these quotations it will
be seen that the general conditions in Oct.
A0NC = IItCA lAN ~ VI hO CbEIN AAub IL
the present month. In special conditions that
period was ahead. First there was an UNUSUAL
ly heavy squall from the South on the after
noon of the 4th and a heavy rain from about
W.S.W. the following day, the two together
giving 81! lines of rain, against which our
recent weather has nothing to set but the
thunder storms of the 4th bringing us about
12lines of rain. Another marked feature of the
older storm was that it sent magnificent bill
lows ashore at West End all day and night
on the 9th and in the morning of the 7th; but
the recent storm does not seem to have
affected the sea at so great a distance, say
400 miles, or if it has done so at all it has
not been to such an extent as to attract gem
eral attention. Indeed, it would seem likely
that the recent storm has not cquaIIed IN
power that of October 1905.
(Io be continued.