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WIND AND WEATHER

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK . BOSTON . CHICAGO . DALLAS ATLANTA . SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED LONDON . BOMBAY . CALCUTTA MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO

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WIND AND WEATHER

BY ALEXANDER McADIE

A. Lawrence Rotch Professor of Meteorology, Harvard University and Director of the Blue Hill Observatory

New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1922

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1922, By ALEXANDER McADIE.

Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1922.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

HOW THE WIND RUFFLES THE TOP OF A FOG BANK Frontispiece

PAGE FIG. 1. THE TOWER OF THE WINDS 13

" 2. BOREAS--THE NORTH WIND 19

" 3. KAIKIAS--THE NORTHEAST WIND 23

" 4. APHELIOTES--THE EAST WIND 29

" 5. EUROS--THE SOUTHEAST WIND 33

" 6. NOTOS--THE SOUTH WIND 37

" 7. LIPS--THE SOUTHWEST WIND 41

" 8. ALL STORMS LEAD TO NEW ENGLAND 45

" 9. ZEPHYROS--THE WEST WIND 49

" 10. PATHS OF HIGH AND LOW, JANUARY, 1922 55

" 11. SKIRON--THE NORTHWEST WIND 59

" 12. THE IDEALIZED STORM 63

" 13. TURNING OF WIND WITH ALTITUDE 67