OCR Text |
Show Snow storms, as all other storms in the United States, travel invariably from a point northwest in a direction south and east, and hence a severe storm passing over Dakota, Montana, or Nebraska, can be predicted several days in advance all the way from Illinois Illi-nois to New York or Massachusetts, or, in fact, to the Atlantic points in Kurope. This explains the utility of tho New York Herald weather bureau for Kurope. It takes up the work where- the United States signal service leaves it off, never making mak-ing a mistake except when through circumstances over which the indication oflicer has no control, because no stations sta-tions exist in mid-ocean, tho storm is dissipated ou the waters. Sometime tho storms increase in fury as they proceed, which accounts for the havoc they lrermently play in the eastern sea ports. Of course, all this refers to general storms only. The laws of local storms are (uite different. |