140 Lake Maxinkuckee, Physical and Biological Survey 



Northeast winds: Some of the lighter northeast winds, even 

 as late as October and November, are recorded as warm and pleas- 

 ant, and accompanied by bright, clear weather. These, however, 

 are exceptional cases, and generally speaking, are among the most 

 disagreeable winds at the lake. Northeast winds are usually raw, 

 cold and disagreeable, and are noteworthy for their persistency, 

 usually lasting from one to several days when well under way, 

 and during the colder season often accompanied by cutting sleet. 

 They often bring heavy snowstorms. In April and May they fre- 

 quently bring disagreeable and persistent drizzles. 



East winds are relatively infrequent at the lake and are almost 

 always associated with cloudy skies, and during the winter are 

 often accompanied by a heavy fall of snow. Most of those occur- 

 ring during the summer are simply noted without any special char- 

 acterization; those mentioned during winter records are usually 

 noted as "cold, stormy, disagreeable." Winds from the southeast 

 are among the most common about the lake ; however, they rarely 

 attain to the dignity of winds, and are almost always referred to 

 in the notes as "breezes" light, brisk or stiff, as the case may be, 

 but very rarely winds. They are, indeed, the next thing to a calm, 

 and, in the fairest and best sorts of weather, if it is not actually 

 calm in the morning the calm is usually replaced by a light south- 

 east breeze. They are usually characteristic of fine mornings. 

 They are less frequent in the evening and not common at noon. 

 Rarely they persist through the day. The stronger breezes or 

 winds from the southeast may be accompanied by clouds or rains 

 in summer or by snow in winter, but this is rather exceptional. 

 Usually they are more pleasant than winds from any other direc- 

 tion. One noted December 18, 1900, is characterized as a "cold, 

 penetrating raw wind" and one of March 12Js mentioned as hav- 

 ing "become almost a gale, cold, raw and disagreeable" ; but these 

 are highly unusual cases. 



South winds are much like southeast winds in character, but 

 are not so common. They are generally gentle breezes and when 

 they rise to the dignity of strong winds, are frequently accom- 

 panied by mild sprinkles or in extreme cases by thunder, lightning 

 and heavy showers of rain. It is doubtless on account of the gen- 

 tleness of the south and southeastern breezes that the great ma- 

 jority of the duckweeds of the lake find their harbor in that por- 

 tion of the lake, only a few, being the progeny of individuals driven 

 out at rare intervals by southern storms, finding harbor in other 

 portions of the shore behind sheltering rushes. 



