STUDIES IN NATURE 



cools ; it cannot hold all the water there is in it, 

 and some of this water soon descends as rain. 



We have now traced the chief features of 

 the weather of the British Islands. We prin- 

 cipally feel the effects of two different kinds of 

 weather which succeed each other at irregular 

 intervals. The cyclonic systems, usually arising 

 somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, generally 

 bring south-west winds and rain, while the con- 

 tinental anti-cyclones, which sometimes extend 

 over us, bring dry easterly or north-easterly 

 winds or calm, dry weather. 



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