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Side 170
... wind has gained the ascend- ancy , and is now advancing over the earth's surface as a “ light air , " it is chilled by contact with the cold ground , and its abundant vapour thereby condensed into a widespread mist . 352. Mountains are ...
... wind has gained the ascend- ancy , and is now advancing over the earth's surface as a “ light air , " it is chilled by contact with the cold ground , and its abundant vapour thereby condensed into a widespread mist . 352. Mountains are ...
Side 171
... wind , but the Vale of Ettrick is the more highly wooded of the two ; hence the temperature of the two valleys will , from what has been stated above , be generally different the one from the other . Now , when a steady humid south- west ...
... wind , but the Vale of Ettrick is the more highly wooded of the two ; hence the temperature of the two valleys will , from what has been stated above , be generally different the one from the other . Now , when a steady humid south- west ...
Side 173
... wind . It sometimes stretches several hundred miles in the form of a long narrow strip . At other times , and more usually , it is a precursor of storms which succeed fine dry weather , during which the wind has been chiefly from the ...
... wind . It sometimes stretches several hundred miles in the form of a long narrow strip . At other times , and more usually , it is a precursor of storms which succeed fine dry weather , during which the wind has been chiefly from the ...
Side 175
... wind begins to set in , or take the place of a moist and light wind , it generally does so by edging itself beneath the moist wind and forcing it wedgeways into the upper regions of the atmosphere , where condensation rapidly follows ...
... wind begins to set in , or take the place of a moist and light wind , it generally does so by edging itself beneath the moist wind and forcing it wedgeways into the upper regions of the atmosphere , where condensation rapidly follows ...
Side 178
... wind happens to blow , the wind will probably soon blow hard , but it will continue in the same direction ; in other words , the variable winds and fitful gusts which accom- pany storms are not likely to be experienced . 373. When the ...
... wind happens to blow , the wind will probably soon blow hard , but it will continue in the same direction ; in other words , the variable winds and fitful gusts which accom- pany storms are not likely to be experienced . 373. When the ...
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