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WEATHER AND CLIMATE 



WINTER SCENE IN VENICE 



climate, is in almost 

 the same latitude as 

 Montreal, Canada. 



As has been seen, 

 the height above the 

 sea makes a differ- 

 ence with the tem- 

 perature, since there 

 is less thickness of 

 air above and there- 

 fore a thinner blanket 

 to hold the heat. 

 Then, too, the kind 

 of soil affects the 

 temperature. If the 



soil is sandy and there is little or no vegetation, it becomes 

 rapidly heated in the daytime and radiates back the heat 

 into the air very 

 rapidly, thus making 

 the temperature of 

 the air near the sur- 

 face very hot during 

 the day; while at 

 night, when the sun 

 is not adding heat, it 

 rapidly loses the heat 

 acquired during the 

 day, and so the tem- 

 perature of the air 

 becomes low. In the 



, WINTER SCENE IN MONTREAL, 



The famous Ice Palace, built entirely of 



sandy deserts the blocks of ice. 



