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hours. The temperature falls at times 30 or 

 40 degrees below zero and the wind maintains 

 a velocity of from forty to fifty miles an hour. 

 These winds spread eastward as far as Illinois, 

 but not with the same severity, and they move 

 southward to the Gulf of Mexico, spreading 

 over the States of Texas and Louisiana, and 

 are there called " northers." It is exceedingly 

 dangerous to be caught in a blizzard in the 

 Dakotas, where the wind reaches its greatest 

 velocity and the cold its lowest temperature 

 especially when the wind is accompanied, as it 

 frequently is, by severe snowing. By the time 

 it reaches the Gulf States it is very much 

 modified as to temperature, but it is a very dis- 

 agreeable wind in that portion of the country, 

 because of the exceeding dampness of the air. 

 One would be much more comfortable in dry, 

 still air, even if it were many degrees below 

 zero, than in an air freighted with moisture, 

 although the temperature has not fallen to 

 the freezing point. 



There are hot winds called by different 

 names according to the localities in which 

 they occur. In southern California at certain 

 seasons of the year the inhabitants are af- 

 flicted with what they call a desert wind that 

 blows from the heated regions of Arizona to- 

 ward the Pacific Ocean. The temperature 

 sometimes reaches 120 degrees Fahrenheit, and 

 persons have been known to perish from the 



