Show cyclone and tornado A cyclone properly speaking is a storm covering a vast extent of country some are one or two thousand milea in diameter and having a system of winds which really blow spirally round and gradually in toward the center of the storm although owing to the great extent of the storm the wind at any particular place seems to be blowing straight ahead near and around the center and especially ahead of it for the whole storm advanced adv ancen generally the east or northeast rain falls in greater or less quantities at the center the air is lightest or the pressure shown by the barometer is least and that is the reason the winds re all drawn in that direction tho spiral motion arises from the effects of the rotation of the earth almost every storm that we have except summer thunder showers is a cyclonic storm A tornado is a fierce whirl wind whose path is generally only a few rods wide although it may travel for many miles destroying everything in its way A black funnel shaped cloud is always a feature of the tornado this funnel is formed by condensed vapor and clouds of dust and debris in the very core of the whirlwind and wherever it passes nothing but the solid ground can withstand it youths companion |