New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-01

ing moisture which is precipitated by some agency
that coo5 the warm, moisture-carrying air, and thus
condcnscs the moisture into either rain snow, ac-
cor1ing TO season
The course Of air currents from east 20 west is well
defined; though the currents DO not flow ike river,
but whrl from right to left, and this whole mass Of
spinning air advances eastward in d body. All whrlng
storms are cyclOnc because they Whrl and il is the
swift whirling storm Of narrow diameter that is COM
monty known cyclone, because it tears things to
pieces; while the same kind Of whirling storm that
measures from fifty TO five hundred more miles in
diameter is merely storm in the ordinary mind
This latter rotates and advances just as the cyclone
does, except that the storm usually follows q well
defined path the continent and lasts about three
days from beginning 10 end in any given spot along its
path; while the cyclone may last only five minutes and
vent its strength in mile Of travel Also the
lone is usually a local storm Of great intensity, duc
to local conditions, while the storm Of common I'M
derstanding created by conditions Of pre- in the
upper atmosphere over a wide area.
WHAT has all this to 10 with a blizzard in Dakota
or a Worcester along the Atlantic Coast, Every
thing for both these disturbances but manifesto
tion Of the thing Today at Seattle Washington
the sky is clear the air cold and the sun shining; but
the barometer is falling steadily. This means that
Seattle is experiencing the last day Of easbound
area is forming somewhere up in Bering Sea, thousand
or more miles to the northwest. Within twentyfour
hours that low pressure has begun TO rotate from
east to west and to travel southeast at the same time
The weather is now cloudy and warmer in Seattle,
and breeze is blowing from the southeast
rs the hours go by the clouds thiokcn the wind in
creascs and shifts to the SOUTH and the edge Of the
storm whir reaches Seattle while the center is still off
to the northwest five hundred miles or So somewhere
about west Of Vancouver Island over the Japan Cur
rent which flows northward along the east coast Of
Japan to the end of the Aleutan Islands, and then
swings in big, sweeping to the south along the
American coast to point opposite Lower California,
where it turns back almost due west This current is
warmer water than the Pacific Ocean, and much warmer
than the cold current that flows southwark through
Berng Straits 20 meet it; there is always more or
less fog and moisture rising from the Japan Current
This Jog is the source of water supply for the United
states. The current is about degrees WIDE and it
lows steadily al the time, bringing the warm waters
lorthward from the tropics along the Asac shores and
n time returning to the tropics by flowing southwark
long the west coast Of America
Our Big Storm travels down from Bering Straits and
oIows along the course Of the Japan Current clear to
ancouyer Island, or roughly TO the extreme north
Western Of the United States which mean, that
he whrng air has gathered the moisture from fifteen
hundred miles of the length Of the river ten degrees
vide. and is carr ing il away 20 distribute a- rain and