378 Life in the Open 



the Sierra Madre range from that direction being almost 

 infallible evidence of a coming rain in the San Gabriel 

 Valley and Southern California in general. 



Professor McAdie traced one of these storms by 

 means of the logs of passing vessels. It began off the 

 east coast of the Philippines, latitude 15, longitude 150 

 west, Nov. 2Oth, moving due west to about latitude 20, 

 longitude 130 west. On the Qth of December the 

 storm Was off Japan in latitude 39 (approximately), 

 longitude 150 west. It now turned south-east, and on 

 the nth of December made a complete turn or loop in 

 four days ; then passed east along the 3Oth parallel, 

 where on the 23d of December it began another loop 

 north of the Hawaiian Islands, and en January 3d 

 again moving east and north-east, reaching on the 8th 

 45 north latitude 145 east longitude. Here it di- 

 vided ; one part went to the north-east, reaching land 

 about 50 north latitude on the I2th of January, while 

 another branch went south, then north-east, entering 

 Northern California at latitude 43 on the I2th of Janu- 

 ary, then sweeping down across the State, reaching the 

 latitude of Los Angeles, but to the east, on the i3th of 

 January. 



This storm took a month to pass from near the 

 Philippines to the latitude of the Hawaiian Islands, and 

 thirteen days, or about two weeks, more to reach Los An- 

 geles, where, doubtless, it appeared as a rain-storm com- 

 ing from a totally different direction, the south-east. 

 This storm is accurately charted in Chart No. XII. 



