The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-04-03
AFFECTS WEATHER CONDITIONS
Lake Is Declared to be One of the Most
Notable Factors in Keeping an
Equitable Climate for Kenosha and
Other Cities Along its Borders.

henOsndnS nave Way OF eVeflaSC-
ingly kicking" at the lake winds.
How many Of them realize what a
saver that old lake is to them? 1t is
frequently noticed that rarely do the
big winds do Kenosha damage and
when they do it is slight compared to
what they do to other less favored
sections. That is due to the lake.
Kenosha is situated at the widest
and deepest part of the lake. There
are holes where the water is deeper
than it is off Kenosha, but the greatest
uniform Depth and the greatest bot
tom area of extreme depth is off Ke-
nosha That means that the largest
volume Of water is off this port.
That large volume of cold water con-
tinually sends into the air vast mass
of vapor. It is wide and deep and
reaches high into the atmosphere. It
is as a wall resting on the water, and
when the pressure has become just so
great it sweeps toward over the land,
brushing aside the thinner air and pro-
ducing the lake winds. That is why
Kenosha is cooler in summer than
most other places.
Then that great mass, that wall of
vapor, is q protection. All forces of
nature take the line of least resistance.
The greatest of the natural forces turn
away from whatever resists them and
only cut down resistance by persis-
tency. So a storm coming, as all
storms do, from a generally western
direction-the fercest of them from
the southwest (even the riotous north
casters are the product of a southwest
ern storm area)-on meeting that great
mass of heavy vapor, turn and slip
along it's sides, the part that reaches
this section being only that which
comes after the brunt Of the storm
has weakened that wall. That is why
Chicago so frequently gets fierce
winds while this city escapes with
much less damage.
These things have been proved by
scientific study. Observers have noted
that in the summer thunder storms and
high winds, near hurricanes as they
sometimes are, go north and south Of
this area beside the widest part of the
lake, the ones that do come oyer here
following others that have weakened
the vapor wall Some storms have
been seen to slide up the sides of that
vapor wall and dissipate themselves in
the upper atmosphere. They met the
vapor as it spread over the land, the
heavy masses lying close to the sur
face, and following that line of least
resistance, went upward on the in
cline instead Of maintaining their
earthward passage.
The same vapor wall turns off the
fierce northwesters of winter and
tempers the low temperatures and
puts in them the penetrating damp
ness. They give this section its long,
cold springs, the great mass of cold.
water resisting the warmer currents.
BY the same sign they give the warm,
golden falls, the water having warmed.
resisting the cold fall winds. The
vapor masses also prevent the late
frosts that SO frequently kill vegeta-
ton in other sections and so seldom
hurt it here. Damp frosts, as they
might be called, frosts in damp
weather, never do the damage that
dry frosts do. 1t has been found thai
the area Of least frost in Wisconsin is
along the lake shore in segment line
extending from near Port Washing
ton to near Racine. The vapors do
that
Thus the old much t'cussedo lake
with it's damp winds and fogs is a
real protection in Kenosha