The practical use of meteorological reports and weather-maps (1871)
United States. Army. Signal Corps · Washington : Govt. Print. Off. · leaf 34
becomecloudy weather, but does not generally presage the extendedstorms of winter. The cirrus of the second class, sometimescalled cirro-stratus, almost always precedes at some distanceany extensive rain-storm, whether of winter or summer. Thestratus will generally be found to be reported in… … I. (liriiis. J. (iiTo-niiimlii 27 unequal distribution of land and water in the two liemispliereSoAfter reaching the equatorial regions as surface winds, the airmust ascend to a great elevation, and thence move toward thepolar regions in high upper currents, which descend to theearth in the region…
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