Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1900 — THE BIRTHPLACE OF CYCLONES. [ARTICLE]

THE BIRTHPLACE OF CYCLONES.

Rocky Mountains Their Home, Their Cradle and Beginning. For the world west of the Mississippi the Rocky Mountains are the points of origin not only of the rivers and water flows, but of the condensing of the moisture of the air, the banked snows, the subterranean currents which form the basis of the entire watershed. Their cold altitudes seem to shed the waves In the plains below, and in their battles generate the cyclones and the, lesser windy terrors which devastate the ■western plains? They are the beginning of the heart-breaking blizzards, ■whleh tie up the traffic of the metropolitan streets or chill beyond endurance the homes of the poor. They are, In a word, the atmospheric top of the continent, and one would expect to find among them the same excesses of nature that are seeh on the smaller scale ■when the wind whips the flags off the roofs of lofty buildings or when dark clouds lower over the Jersey hills or the gentle mountains of the Cumberland. ~ ' Yet, though the Rocky Mountains are’the beginning of such awful things as cyclones and blizzards, they are singularly Immune from the terrible effects of these phenomena when they reach their full growth on the plains below. The storms are sharp, strong and typical. They are dramatic. But, lacking in the chance of a long run across the plains, where force is constantly accumulated with each successive mile of progress, their life is usually of short duration and their imme-, diate sphere of action small. 1 They are as if all the phenomena, the stonn from its genesis to its conclusion, were given, in miniature. In this respect the storms of the Rockies differ from those of the Swiss Alps. The latter are severe, protracted and full of catastrophe. The former complete themselves briefly and then let the balance of the continent wrestle with what they have given forth. Probably nowhere is storm and climate so varied. All phases of nature’s cataclysms alternate with all phases of nature's peace and pleasure. The entire gamut from sunshine to black gloom frequently is run within a single day. or an hour. A morning will open clear, with the sun warm. Perhaps at noon the clouds will gather and a heavy rain begin. In a few minutes this will turn to sleet and then to hail. Fifteen minutes after the storm begins it will be snowing heavily and an hour from the time the first cloud appeared the Sun will be shining again. The whole shower, rain, hail and snow will have been accomplished by thunder and lightning.—Aineslie’s Magazine.

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