The Philosophy of the Weather. And a Guide to Its Changes

Heat and moisture are indispensable to the fertillity of the earth--Arrangements exist for their diffusion and distribution, and all the phenomena of the weather result from the...

Our rivers return in the form of clouds, and in storms and showers--Definition and character of storms--Differences in the character of the clouds which constitute them--Nomencl...

Our rivers do not return from the North Atlantic--All storms and showers move from the westward to the eastward--Seeming clouds seen moving from the eastward to the westward are...

The trade wind region--Its extent and arrangements--Its belt of daily rains and movable character--The trade winds--The extra tropical belt of rains--Connection between them and...

Course and functions of the counter-trade--Ours come from the South Atlantic--Reason why it can not come from the Pacific-- Mistake of Mr. Redfield and Lieutenant Maury in regar...

Height of the counter-trade in different latitudes--Cause of the Calms of Cancer--Influence of mountains upon the counter-trade-- Reports of Herndon and Gibbon--Focus of precipi...

Important to understand the precise character of the reciprocal action between the earth and the counter-trade--Connection between the width and movements of the belt of inter-t...

Examination of existing theories--Calorific theory the prevailing one--Lateral overflow of Professor Dove--Absurdity of his views in relation to them--His theory of hurricanes--...

Further inquiry in relation to the reciprocal action between the earth and the counter-trade--Terrestrial magnetism, and what we know of it--Its elements, and their variations--...

Heat and moisture are indispensable to the fertility of the earth. Without suitable arrangements for their diffusion and distribution, and within the limits of certain minima an...

Before proceeding to an examination of this connected atmospheric machinery, and an investigation of the particular ocean from which our rivers return, it may be well to look at...

Not wholly or mainly from the North Atlantic, although it lies adjacent to us, and they often _seem_ to do so; for, first, all storms, showers, and clouds, which furnish, _indep...

Between the parallels of 35 deg. north latitude, and 35 deg. south latitude--changing its location within this limit at different seasons of the year--encircling the earth, and...

One, and the principal end attained by the power of the agent, is the gathering of a volume of atmosphere from, or near, the _surface_ of the land and sea, so as to ensure its p...

Coming back now, to a consideration of the course and functions of the counter-trade after it leaves the northern limit of the surface-trades, we find it curves to the eastward...

The counter-trade of the northern hemisphere ranges at different heights in different latitudes, in the same latitude at different seasons, and also upon different days of the s...

It is exceedingly desirable, in a practical point of view, to understand the precise character of the reciprocal action which takes place between the earth and the counter-trade...

Before proceeding to do this, however, it may be well to look at some theories which have been advanced, and to a greater or less extent adopted, and at their bearing upon the q...

We are yet ignorant of the true nature of magnetism. We trace its lines, as in the diagrams, upon and around the magnet; but we can only do this with soft iron, or other substan...

The reader who has attentively perused and considered the facts stated, and the principles deduced, in the preceding pages, and is ready to make a practical application of them...