Show A Scientific Defence e of the Abused E East st Wind in Y I HE cast east wind is by no means as T THE bad as it is painted by the inhabitants Inhabitants in inhabitants In- In habitants of tho the Atlantic seaboard sea sea- board At least such is tho the Inevitable deductions to be e drawn from tho records records records rec rec- o of the Blue Hill observatory which cover a period of ot many years car It is not the vehicle of those severe ere cold snaps which chill the staid Now Englander to tho er very marrow Such low temperatures are from the west and northwest Neither docs doc it bear beor the extremes of 01 summer heat haat upon its wings The popular impression that tho the se severest seerest severest se- se verest erest storms come from tho the east has hag no foundation in tho the records In fact tho the average velocity of ot the east wind Is only six miles an hour as against twelve for northwest and west winds eleven ole for tor north orth and southwest winds ten for south winds and nine for winds from the tho northeast and southeast Neither is tho the east wind the prevalent prevalent preva preva- lent one at any period of or tho the year It blows but six hours out of every hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred according to tho the records To put pat the case caM concretely there are annually annually annu annu- all ally 1739 hours of ot west wind 1609 hours of or northwest wind and 1412 1413 hours of r southwest wind while winds from rom nil all the eastern quarters amount to but 1950 hours It is quite clear from the tho facts that tho the extremes extreme of or the coast climate are due not to the east wind but to the lack of it Meteorologists tell us in fact tact that were it prevalent prevalent prevalent preva preva- lent during the larger part of ot the year ear winters would be far tar milder than Ulan they ey are ar and summers much cooler It would bring to New England England Eng Eng- England land and the eastern state states state indeed much such a a. climate as now prevails in Bermuda The ameliorating effects of such a chango change would uld probably reach as far tar faras faras taras' taras as as' the Mississippi river but farther west est the tho climate would become more rigorous us than at present the change for tor the worse being especially pronoun pronounced pronounced pro pro- noun ed upon tho the Pacific chic coast |