Show Freak Thunder Storm Made Mad Weird Spectacle In the log of ot the British steamer Moravian apt Capt A A. Simpson dl's described December 80 SO a thunder storm on 00 1112 Just within range of tope Cape Verde erde lighthouse At a. a m. m a laden dust wind came worm warm puff of ot off the African shore hore Lightning at nt first distant on the northeast horizon became almost continuous with 1111 loud thunder All the stars were visible only upper clouds douds no cumulus in 10 the sky Captain Simpson had never before experienced a n severe ere thunder storm without cloud Charles Talman who describes this freak thunder storm sturm In his Science Service feature Why hythe the Weather goes goel on For fully an hour the sky was one blaze of lightning and wire ropes mastheads yardarms derrick ends etc were lighted up op All Att the stays seemed to have glow lamps three to four tour feet reet apart and the mastheads and yardarms a bright light at their extremities The most remarkable part port of ot the phenomenon was the extraordinary sound emitted throughout It was says the log exactly like the n noise lse of ot the sparks from the carbons of ot otan an arc arc lamp or as If several thou sands of ot cicadas had taken up Dp their quarters In Iu the riggIng rinsing pr 91 the crack ling of ot burning gross grass or twigs This noise was not local near Ui the bridge but the officers reported It all att over the ship even In the neigh of the noisy steering gem gear Literary Digest |