Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-01

million dollars damage to property there. Six
days later Boston had heavy transform; New York
had spell Of weather; and in the interval heavy
rains had fallen clear the continent from Seattle
to the mouth of the ST. Lawrence River except the
tops OF the mountains and there snowstorns had taken
the place of the rain
Why did this all happen? What caused it, and how
wide was the storm track Do you know anything
about it, Do YOU know that the whole continent OF
America must depend just such storms for its water
supply?
Without these great cyelonic storms the United
States would be dead, dry desert So no matter how
much hate storms, must have them; and not only
that but must have heavy storms from the west II
we are to raise apples in Washington prnes in Idaho,
hay Montana, wheat in Dakota and Minnesota, and
corn and tobacco in Ohio and Pennsylvania Nor could
raise of these without the aid of Our friend the
Big Storm from the west for there is far-reaching
cosnic reason behind the Big Storm.
Seafaring men all know that the oceans full of
we'll defined flowing along definite routes like
huge rivers. Consequently, they lay their sailing
take advantage of these currents. Soon the
aviator will do the thing; for the atmosphere IS
also full of great currents moving along
definite routes and these routes change with the
sons. In summer the routes north OF the equator
change norherly courses, and in winter which
the Of the heaviest storms, the routes SWING
much farther southwark The air currents do not flow
smoothly like river; but whrl and also act more like
the tides because the is in series of waves
OF rotating air moving eastward under pressure from
above A high pressure area is the crest OF one OF
these waves and low pressure is the trough be
tween highs ar-wave crests. The high
means usually clear and colder weather; while the low
moisture and warm weather. In short low is
storm we know it.
60 far as the northern part OF the United States
concerned it has to do with the low that originates
and about Boring Sea and the Aleutan Islands off
Alaska; for this is the birthplace of all the big storms
of winter that move eastward from the Pacific Ocean
the mouth of the st. Lawrence River, scattering rain
and a belt Of country from fifty to thou
sand miles wide clear the continent. 1t is these
big winter storms that make the United States a fit
country live in and without them most of the nted
States, if not all, would be a desert
The ocean currents and the wind rivers flow almost
along the courses, and where "hole, calm
area in the like "hole in the air"
of calm, usually t-and this on land
well Thus we have calm north of the
Hawaiian Islands, one Arizona and New Mexico,
the South Atlantic Australia and
many Where these calm occur over the
land the country is always dry and desertlike,
tirelv desert So the Sahara Desert in Africa
Southwestern Deserts in Arizona, New Mexico, and
Lower California, and the desert interior of Australia,
all caused by exactly the same conditions: namely,
eddy calm place in the atmosphere which the wind
currents move all around but do cross.
The habitable parts of land the other hand
those which the r rivers flow from the seas, bring