630 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
country from Chicago, ‘‘ Vennor’s storm coming,” and people who do not know 
any better think that all the storms that have passed over the United States since 
the 16th inst. are only parts of ‘‘his storm.” On the 16th of December Zow, or 
the storm center, was in the Indian Territory and Texas. On the 17th it moved 
over Missouri and Arkansas, and on the 18th passed off the North Carolina coast. 
The results of this storm were very light snows north of the Ohio river, Iowa to 
Ohio, and to the south light rains, and very light snow on the 18th in the North 
United States and Canada. 
On the roth a new Jow in the Southwest: It followed a usual course and 
yet not a fixed course. As it advanced it took nearly a northeast direction, and 
passed off the coast on the 21st with the center about on a line with the mouth 
of the Chesapeake Bay. This, of course, caused an area of snow-fall within a 
circular line, taking in the southern part of Connecticut, sweeping around to 
Maryland and Virginia. It was not general throughout the United States. It 
was not what might be termed a very heavy fall of snow—nine inches on a level 
is all that can be claimed for it at Washington, and hardly that. 
To all fair-minded persons it would seem that a fair interpretation of the 
“prophecies” would have been to have had even a heavy fall of snow generally 
over the northern portion of the United States and Canada. Instead, the area 
of this storm was very limited, being confined to a very small section of the 
United States along the Atlantic coast, and was all over before the day claimed 
for it, and a new one on the way. On the 24th a new /ow, or storm center, 
developed in Central Southern Mississippi. On the 25th it moved to the North 
Carolina coast and thence up along the Atlantic coast toward Boston, where, on 
the 27th, about nine inches of snow fell; thence this area of Jow passed off the 
coast and toward Nova Scotia. It will be seen that the track of this storm was 
similar to the one that preceded it and produced similar results, yet not extend- 
ing into the interior as far even as the other ; merely touching the coast—yet a 
good example of how one storm may resemble another and still not produce the 
same results. 
On the 28th still another /ow passed over the Gulf, and on the 29th disap- 
peared, northeast into the Atlantic, giving rain on the immediate South Atlantic 
and Gulf coasts, and snow in the interior, and light snows thence to the Ohio 
Valley and New Jersey. With all these snow storms very little fell generally 
throughout the United States. Most,of the snow fell in and about the immediate 
Atlantic coast from Boston to Washington, while in Maine, and even in the east- 
ern parts of Canada, it has been relatively warm, with rain; at Providence, 
R. I., very little snow, none to speak of at Albany, and very little throughout 
the West. While these snow storms were mostly concentrated, as here stated, 
along the Atlantic coasts, the temperature was warm in upper New England 
territory and Eastern Canada, while it was severely cold all to the west of these 
storm centers, generally over the United States and Western Canada, and even 
at times to the extreme South. 
