Show BIG TOLL MEN r IM 8 oil U I 1 cloudburst freaks of weather overloaded Thi indi r showers change landscapes new york despite widespread drought of recent imon tir the present year years wen weather I 1 her record provides no exception to the rule that cloudbursts kith ith their attend ant floods good aluse tt th t ts of many lives and several million doll collim irs worth of property in hie lite united milled satee states every summer Bu nimer says the new york times an outstanding bent of tills kind was the lie recent disaster at on tre oe arizona mexican Alex ican border when about a score of lire lives were lost and many roan houses were wrecked by a cloud burst flood and another ease suin chantly st striking to ninke new news for the nation occurred later in hie be month at alln cu canyon llyon utah close to the tile worlds barst open pit copper mine pie ilie term cloudburst 1 used in conn connection bellon with tuch huh events la Is a but it Is so so firmly rooted in our lari guage and words of idea iden lien meaning ing are so viell ell MID fill tile he sime application id in other la ensi lages that ista do no hesitate to dA cribe ex bt ivy local falls of 0 rain under this tills name he the term ends to perpetuate tin the erroneous idea hat flint clouds sometimes actually burst and their retire 1 water content iastan kikm he the earth driling of the I 1 idea dea thia this ajea Is centuries old it la Is with much display ot of erudition by a Geri bennan vs riter named guthof in lit a eatn tork work put fished at Uro in 17 11 this authority rarely assert asserts that the breaking of clouds takes place when the higher clouds glod illi rain and mure more rime and heaby than tle dissolving clouds helow below thefil b being violently dictated ere are tora torn asunder under milled end and broken an annl I 1 so in a very great ime bits suddenly fall and at a single i omit forth a tremendous power of water the heavy showers as cloudbursts are also sometimes eom ellinos known as waterspouts water spouts t sod nt at one me a certain number of scientific authorities ascribed thebe torrential to the action ot of true via ft a i er spouts or tornadoes in candeni jug and carrens carrl ns aloft in their wr dicea great quin tilles nt of rain vere mere allowed to fall nhen hea tte tl vortex of the storm u bilan ui or vie likened as for example by striking Etri king the tide side of a I 1 mountain it Is now recognized bo however wever 1 11 aliat roost most are violent thunder showers the ria ing sir air current of a thunderstorm are so at times as to prevent any rah rali from falling it if these currents are neak weakened ened at point a lare of WA ter Is permitted to fall at one time this Is especially likely to occur when a traveling thunderstorm which Is fed by rising Bt of air from overheated ground passes over the cooler cobler surface of a moon tain win so thaties that its supply of warn arm air Is temporarily cut off thus Is explained the lie frequency of c cloudbursts loud bursts in mountainous regions difficulties in measuring the extreme intensity of 0 rainfall occurring in n doud cloudbursts bursts Is as much a matter of peculation speculation ai as Is the he extreme fo to foce ce of the wind ind occurring in la tornadoes docs and in to both the he uncertainty 13 1 due to the lack of instrumental records the cloudburst like tie tor is limited to a area and lk rarely liap hap pens that a rain pause gauge ie Is placed at the point of beav leht rola rainfall fall in ono one of the howers moreover an ordinary rain gauge even if it lull ably loen located ted would rite no indica indira ion lion of the tile rate of fall during short periods of time such information ran be obtained only alth an in au all cally reIste gaug gaui willed makes tt a contin continuous tous hemr record of the rainfall minute by minute ani cadges of this type are as 98 4 rule ft urd only at the more meteorological and observe ator fes une of thu fastest shower showers ever measured niti M a nautical ical rala rain keute us that of may 1 at borici bello unitie un the of pan pau 1 am ama in which inches ml fell in three minutes this tills record of in was cd on oil april 5 clr 1920 ot at ramp camp on the he test front of the sail salt Q 1 lonae in california mien ft hen indies inches of rain fait tutis tons of iter in to the tile acre ml fell IQ in one minute nil nute ahli deluge tas as calill it by two itic rain gauges standing ole by side and their records agree so lint th lie e 0 I 1 ure abbie glion Is altogether alto getler etler trustworthy I 1 that hat decidedly hepler awn pours titan th sc se list jim mentioned sometimes occur Is liei nd the file great rent amount of soli soil fitial 1 ng in n connection with mill certain cloudbursts this enonie non has been noticed not only in 10 hilly and mountainous country mitre hie the low flow of the tile storm nater Is concentrated content rated by the effects of slope but also in leel regions region ft here huge carlyles carlt carit les are sometimes male by the mere of the tile hilling binter one such cavity resulted froin front an afternoon thunder shower in VM ma on oil a moor in tie tile county of dun lain hata heen years after the lite shoner its effects nere tore still till 1 ri kingly visible isible on oil a gentle slope ope the lie top law laver of crass grass and peat hud had washed buoy ay to a 4 depth u f about birti feet over CD an irea of about twenty by forty yard yards on the lie cheviot hills in july I 1 asiu the layer cf of pent over an arta of from thirty to forty aclei wast va plowed up lit by a cloudburst 1 A denh of some five feet and in masa jolin john glass boolean po olean meteorologist haa has recently recorded i a large number of u remarkable remar kalle cavities in the tile isles an ani even more striking examples could doublet is be lound in sonn sonio oter parts of hie tile world 11 itt abes of cloudbursts cloudburst often de berlied the water as i ipg dnn in morses or rattier rather thin in drops thi tills char acte iq laid to iove been ob in tile celebrated cloudburst of july 20 at fit lat lill N Y liell 13 lillea of rain fell in three hours effects of terrific in itne till ifft mites writes 1 hook look of c I 1 III MOIL abe sift a IS mere ere go conten mil and of such a nl uil hat hot fullier tell tu to forty feet dtta kt ami slid SM 1 rod rods ions were ere nailed out libie no droan use age chan chantilla or d i reh u ions lons ila lial I 1 cler eer beaure existed one ofle stepped irvin ruin lile his dorr into butir which he tie to 10 be about two feit deep and alid nus drowned in tin ito feet of 0 ater actual greany of filling water were also owned in arter coun court ty on june U 14 lir 14 alien fien the haf rainfall amounted to 10 thelie indie in linure nud where libles of lie tile aline eort sort were viere fort foaud itil probably tile tie most disastrous cloud buni in n record ati as one that occurred in the tile ml hil lenin ala mla of southern japan on auguet Alif fist 19 10 luring during tie basim passage e of a typhoon th tir resulting floud drowned lion lw I 1 aw ond ruined about hou liou e ex t nearly 05 15 indies inches of 0 rail fell in 10 houm |