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Winds with Special Names. The inflowing winds of 

 cyclonic storms are sometimes given special names in 

 different parts of the world. The hot, scorching winds 

 which blow from the African desert across Italy are called 

 siroccos, and the name is now often applied to any south 

 winds which are very hot and dry. In southern Australia 

 such winds are called brickfielders because they bake the 



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FIG. 145. Waterspout at Vineyard Sound, August 19, 1896. 



fields until they are like bricks. The chinook is the wind 

 that blows from the Rocky Mountains toward the Missis- 

 sippi valle}^. It has lost its moisture on the western slope 

 of the Rocky Mountains, and as it descends and is warmed 

 its capacity for holding moisture is greatly increased, 

 with the result that it takes up the moisture from the 

 fields instead of bringing moisture to them. The blizzard 

 of the western plains is an especially cold wind accom- 



