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Show flnoir Hurricane. The buran, or snow hurrlcano ot the Pamirs, la a meteorological phenomenon phenom-enon of great Interest. Even In midsummer mid-summer the temperature during a snow buran frequently falls to 14 degrees de-grees Fahrenheit, whllo tn the winter of 1892-93 It dropped to 45 degrees below be-low sero at the ond ot January. The buran comes with startling suddenness, the atmosphere growing dark with whirling snowflukes where scarcely a minute bofore tho sky was perfectly clear. |