The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-01-21
WEATHER MAN
WATCHES WIND

or the cars might meet with an ac-
cident.
storms, like pineapples, as rule
do not originate in the United States.
They come to us, some from the Phil
ippines, Japan, Siberia, Alaska, Can
ada or the Gulf of Mexico. The
| weather bureau gets cable, tele-
eign storm. Station after station, or
vessel after vessel reports the
storms arrival in its neighborhood,
so that the lgeneral direction and
rate of progress can be determined
very early. In fact, the arrival Of
some storms can be foretold ten days
in advance,
The forecasters watch for the re-
gion of low barometer which is the
storm center around which the winds
blow. This whirl of eddy moves
bodily forward with the general
eastward drift of about $50 miles a
day in our latftudes LAS the lines
OF equal pressure (isobars) around
the low center crowd closer together,
the winds attending, the storm in
crease in force. The forecaster de-
ltermines' the direction of movement
Iof the storm and its velocity.
When weather disturbances are
reported, the forecasters know from
Experience about how long it takes
them to reach our Pacific coast, and
then how long after they viii reach
the Atlantic Coast. For example, II
a storm. coming from Siberia drttts
Eastward around the North pole ana
treappears In Alaska, it should ap-
near IN washington and Oregon in
about two days; should get to the
Great Lakes in six days and to the
Atlantic coast in seven or eight days.
Unexpected conditions may delay
storms or divert them from the
straight track just as refrigerator
car may be thrown of it's scheoule
or be shipped by accident on
wrong road. Some OF these storms rms
deplete themselves by running INTO
regions of high barometer which are
of greater magnitude and extent than
the storm itself. Some of them, how
ever. travel completely around tine
world
4 70 keep tab on cold waves that
come into the United States from
canada and Alaska, the weather pu-
reau studies the Canadian weather
renorts' England sends reports
IRON Iceland, the British Islands and
Continental Europe, and daily re-
ports come from st. Petersburg on
the conditions in Russia ana 81
iberia.
/ The same businesslike system used
in tracing the track OF Q STORM
applied in determining the arrival
tof frosts. u,,
Flood forecasts are made in much 1s
the same way. Information as to the
amount OF rainfall at the head waters
Of streams that cause floods are coy ~.
Iered by Geographic reports sent ny
local observers AS this rain reaches
the main channel, the height of the
water in the channel is determines IN4
nv successive gauging stations: Past
records establish how much a height,
say of twenty feet at Dubuque, Ia l..
viii produce at Davenport. another 6;ias
station eighty miles down the MISS.
iss:ppi river. This plan is followed
all the way down the river, and a, al
each point full allowance made 1of
/ the effects of water from tributaries,
ana from additional and local rain rain
fall. AS a result OF these observ ,,a
tions In the recent flood, the people
! of Cairo had warning week or ten ten
days in advance. The Pittsburg di IS
twenty-four hours after a heavy rain
storm.