Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1899 — Speed of Wave and Wind. [ARTICLE]

Speed of Wave and Wind.

Waves travel faster than the wind which causes them, and in the Bay of Biscay frequently during the autumn and winter In calm weather a heavy sea gets up and rolls In on the coast twenty-four hours before the gale which causes It arrives, and of which it is the prelude.