Show INCEPTON OF CYCLONES Formation of the Westers That Deal Death anti Dis3ster St Nicholas To get an idea of a cyclones formation imagine a large I circular pan or tub with quite a large hole in the middle of the bottom Yiti this hole lugged fill the vessel with water then draw out the plug and watch There is first a rush o water from all directions toward the hole and a turbulent effort to get through Then the water surface above begins to sink and swirl the artIcles gdlaly circling cir-cling around and around and rushing ever faster toward the center At last there Is actually a hQlow space through the center around Which all the water in the tub is whirling sluggishly slug-gishly near th rim but with more and more violent rapidity toward the middle mid-dle until it rushes downward through the bottom Now ff that water were air ou would be watching a little cy cliib turned upside down for the air rushes upward instead of downward In the cradle of cyclones during the summer months when the hand and the water grow hotter and better because be-cause of the longer days than nights a layer of air hot light and full of vapor is for a time held down by denser air above it Restless exaand ing tumultuous It moves about like a beast at bay until a thinner place in the aIr above Is found Thtin up It madly rushes and into the vacuum left Lehind the lower atmcshere hastens from all directions pushing and twisting twist-ing and pouring upwajd until i ha fallen into a regular sirning around a common center Time czrclofle once formed rushes away from the tropics toward the pole and bezins Its career of destruction bruising wrecking and sinking the luckless ships which happen to be in its ath More and more of the cur rounding atmosphere is drawn kltQ the whirl untIl the storm often covers an area nearly 1000 miles in diameter Sometimes It flings itself lEmon OJr Atlantic coast and tears fiercely through forests fields and citiJs Then again It sweeps away across the broad ocean and dashes Itself Upon th doasts of Euree |