Show rocky mountain Mete meteorology orol be solved the weather NV eather bureau has recently occupied the lofty summit of pikes peak for its purposes of weather telegraphy this emi eminence pence fourteen thousand two hundred and sixteen feet above the ocean is an admirable post for th the the 6 meteorological 0 31 sentries AS well by reason of its location as of its altitude one of the most important problems of weather science is to ascertain how far land jand passes masses projecting above the sea level are aio concerned in generating the great storm cen ceu tr tres M aunt washington looking out on the sea might finely the study of 0 this interesting subject but that any in influence fluence or agency it may exert in producing storms is hard to detect since sinco every storm nean near by b quickly disappears Is appears to tho eastward east rd and is heard of only out on the fhe atlantic but pikes rikes peak rising in the middle of the continent and lying in the great belt of westerly winds must with n observation A make mako mae its agency y clearly aly felland fel felt tand band and perceived by the observers of or the anal anai signal service sta tian upon it the specific problem to which we ire refer viz how far mountainous masses or peaks are to be considered as storm breeders broeders bre eders is exceedingly important iball the future settlers of thel the rocky locky mountain states alid and territories it is known to marin drs ers rounding cape horn that the icy projecting points bf patagonia and brid term terra deY det Fuego is as they arrest the vapor laden westerly winds rapidly condense t hem them and thus originate the furious and arid continuous gales that rage off that promontory mon Won tory true revolving gales gaies are there formed and sweep with such enormous speed to the eastward that a clipper ship the sovereign of ihs seas in march 1853 hag been beert known to run upon one of them for nautical miles in an days during the the ibe first fint of which she averaged miles a day and on one day actually mad made miles although it has been 1 sometimes said ethe storm i the child of the tile mccau ocean 11 the lie real agent in originating these kales gale is undoubted undoubtedly ly the fri frigid gid land mass which suddenly squeezes out ortha of the atmosphere the derenchin dren drenching chin 9 and torrential rains aad aryl thus b be end gets the low barometer barolet ei oyer beer oer the entire latitude of california and or egon similar wind phan phenomena einera prevail as in the patagonian latitudes northwesterly and westerly winds freighted and surcharged surcharge surch arg ed with vapor from the north pacific sift through the passes of the rocky rocks bocks bocky a mountains mount and as they encounter eneo unter the mighty ice lee cc sheeted pyramids like pikes peal peak they are rapidly condensed awid arid thus the nuclei of storms and anu snow tempests are formed to clear elear up lip the philosophy of the bocky rocky mountain buntain Ir storms has lias been the ambition of many eminent american and european scientific travellers trav ellers undoubtedly it will bo be found that among these lofty pin acles aclei of cold sublimity the sto storm i rm king lias has his great laboratories in which ho he manufactures the weather horibe for the tho mississippi vaile Valle valley vailey yand and the eastern easterne 8 1 ide ido of our continent the backy Mount mountain aln country while noille often rising so gradually that the ti traveller aveller perceives his ascent only bythe by the fall of the mercury in his barometer is lined by many rampant like ridget ridge t pursuing the direct direction ion lon n orth north of west and south of or east and presenting t their axial aldir I 1 fronts to the prevailing n vapor bear benr ing winds it would seem very clear therefore that ly ting the law of the bocky rocky mountain storms the information would guide tho the tho tho the the best watered lands and the localities cali calit les ties best suited for mining awiz pa s burage and tillage As this subject lie lle lies at the bottom of our wh ole oie lou edif loh rl 5 tin meteorology it ought to bo be fully investigated ay N Y merald herald 1 |