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Show WINTER STORMS- Tho science of storms in the Rocky Mountains has long been problematical; problemati-cal; and wc would hail with more than Ordinary pleasure any data which would furnish us reliable information upon the subject. We remember one time beiDg storm-bound for five days in Europe while Admiral Fitzroy's signals warned the steampacket not to leave port. Acd, at that time, scientifically, scien-tifically, he would teil the direction of the 6torm, its duration and probable results, say twenty-four hours before it burst. Our signal bureau at Washington Washing-ton dees the. samo thing, so far as its observations are confined to radii over which known atmospheric laws govern. hen they come to a rcien such as this, which sets all accepted laws at defiance while certain reneral phenomena pheno-mena may prevail, they arc entirely at sea. The following, received by telegraph, tele-graph, relative to atmospherical tidal wavts, and a&suoiioj; a certain theory demands moro than ordinary notice : The ro?earches of the United States biguiil cilice, at Wa-hingtou, have just been rewarded by a beautil'ul and highly high-ly important meteorological discovery. On the coast of Knglaud, from time immemorial, the phenomena of the great November atmospheric wave have been a matter of speculation by - scientists and seamen, but Sir John ilcrschel and others have supposed it was peculiar and confined to England and western Europe which it reaches from the south Atiautie, over which H rolls in long continued undulations undu-lations from October to January, constituting con-stituting an important element in phenomenal character of the European winter. On the 12th of November, a1 similar atmospheric wave began to break over the shores of Oregon and British Columbia, as shown by the weather telegrams. By the evening of the 13th, it had spread over nearly all the Pacific States and Territories including in-cluding Utah and Nevada At midnight mid-night it was pouring through the passes of the rocky mountains. On Thursday the J4ih it descended upon Colorado, Nebraska and the Indian Territory. Oq Eriday morning it extended ex-tended in unbroken magnitude from Oregon and Wa-hingtoo Territories, eastward, through the great trough or depression of the Rocky Mountain backbone in Idaho and Montana. It stretched thence to the lower Missouri and lower Mississippi valleys, and over the western shores of the Mexican gulf. This discovery will enable meteorologists to anticipate, by manv days, the approach of winter as it advances ad-vances from the Pacific coast eastward in the great current of westerly winds. It serves to clear up the old mystery of the American win-- win-- ter storms showing that they originate in the Reeky mountains upon whose cold and lofty summits in Utah, Colorado, Colo-rado, and southern Wyoming, the vapors cf this wave couiiDg from over the warm Pacific are now seen to be condensed in the overwhelming snows of tho 41st parallel. As this vast aerial wave is probably, like tho English Eng-lish wave, continued in excessive undulations un-dulations ibr two or three months, it may assist io explaining the comparatively compara-tively high temperature and light precipitation pre-cipitation in winter along the Puget Sound, and eastward. To theorists who never made Rocky Mountain storms a study, the above must be very congratulatory; but seriously, seri-ously, our last winter's experience proved to be so exceptional that no known prostatic laws can be challenged as data for future reference ; for in-stinco, in-stinco, the rule hag been that blorms have passed from DorthctiM; to southwest south-west ; and on this theory the U. P. R. R. built their snow fences and mndc other preparations for meeting the usual winter storms. In the Great Basin, and by all the known principles which govern storms here we look for their arising on the lake, paiog round the Oquirrh rane, crossing to the Wtu-atch range, and claim that as their source of deposit, passing eastward, while Salt lake City receives its share ol the storm. N-jw, last winter wasEO exceptional that, a-king oo aid from western atmospheric waves making their way down a pass by Idaho and Montana, it changed all this, and gave us aurui9 from the feouthcast so unexpected unex-pected and fiorco, and Pettiog oo ono silo all ordinary calculation?, as to dir'-gir-i all ccmnjuo preparations prepara-tions fur dttt-UfO nr pr.jtect ha. The result was, the ii eiald described at tho time, that wbilu cue had been Uaen to meet ordinary atmospheric ci'kcuck, tins tiling S3 extraordinary Pel tl o-e cVoiiations at d fiance. So that wiul.j wj really would hail with unli-ignt-d at-jla.ta! ion any rcli ablu scientific data hearing on storms in tho U-A-ky Mountains, wc b-g to assure as-sure tho tclcKraph gentleman above that he has only Hd us what wc knew m K,' ! thin wo did know; and,, fact, that his Mndvrfhl dLsov Cry ua" UtQ a -uVjec. of common comment fW yearn in the Rocky Moun-taimj. |