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Show THE CITIZEN 2 w Sunset over the Great Salt Lake a symphony of water, light and clouds. Minute dust motes gather the molecules of moisture- to form tiny droplets, which break up the white light of the sun. The resultant flaming colors are among the most beautiful spectacles of the west. The clouds are strato-cumu- appears like a thin Cirro-stratu- s, sheet of silk over the sky; is in the form of small globular masses or white flakes, and are the wavy cloud forms which ride high in the heavens. - cirro-cumul- us li. cirro-cumul- us Stratus formations are the somber clouds that form a heavy, gray or bluish roof over the low-lyin- g, They may be broken up into undulations or thinner sheets, as s, in the or in the types, may resemble ragged t, dark and tatters of uct stormy at the center. The cumulus forms are responsible and castles on for our cloud-dreaa summer day: and also for our thunder showers. They are the thunder-head- s, the shocks troops of the atmosphere. They are thick clouds of which the upper surface is dome-shapexhibiting fantastic and bulbous protuberances, while the base is horizontal. is a more The cumulo-nimbpronounced thunder type. Its base is a dark, heavy mass of nimbus, or sheet cloud from which rain is quick to fall, while the top boils out into the heavy, and turrets, and reaches the very roof of the cloud world. It is from these clouds that most of our lightening flashes occur. Pure nimbus clouds are the ragged, shapeless layers which give a steady rain or snow. forms and storm THESE cloud follow regular channels about the world, subject to the interruptions and breaks which local world. -- alto-stratu- strato-cumul- us cloud-blanke- ms ed us ' cloud-mountai- ns ! conditions induce. heavy enough to produce rain, these molecules eventually fasten about a dust mote or particle, of which there are millions and billions in the atmosphere. The first tiny droplets float about in space until cold of the upper regions causes more and more of the gaseous molecules to attach themselves to the caravan, and the drops are built up to sufficient size to fall to earth. What is called a light rain is made up of droplets only a trifle large than a pin point. Droplets of a moderate rain are only about twice that size, and those of an excessive rain are about the size of a capital 0. When the droplets get any bigger we call it a cloud burst. Figured in terms of rain-fal- l, there is about a dining room full of . 4 cloud in your glass of water, and it would take a fifteen story hotel, covering a quarter of a Salt Lake City block to hold the cloud sufficient to fill a tub with water for your morning bath. Clouds fall into three general subdivisions, each with easily recognizable forms: Cirrus, stratus, and cumulus. you drive ASlook at the out in your car sky. The fibrous, fleecy clouds with delicate edges are They are the frozen clouds, made up for the most part of tiny ice spicules and prisms. They are the highest of the cloud the cirrus. masses.' You will see them as tuft-te- d, fibrous or bunched forms, very light and feathery in appearance. . Storms in Utah largely originate off the North West Coast of the American Continent, over the Behring and North Pacific Ocean or, in a lesser degree, over the northwest portion of the .land itself. They are caught up in a great sea of atmosphere flowing eastward continually across the continent. Within this great sea, J. Cecil Alter, meteorologist in charge of the Salt Lake City station of the United Statse yeather Bureau, tells us, q; of vast maelstroms eddies or appear low atmospheric pressure, accompanied by corresponding areas of high atmospheric pressure: in pressure THIS variance storm. That is, an eddy, or cyclone, indicates a great area of rising, warm air, which upon reaching the colder levels, of the upper , atmosphere is cooled, dropping its moisture' as rain, or snow. An ideal storm, moving eastward, would be precipitated on the west- - O' |