Mar. i6, 1888.] 



SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



243 



Thus on Loch Ness, the water at the south-west end of 

 this long, narrow, and deep trough is coldest when a 

 south-west wind is blowing, and when the wind is 

 blowing from the north-east, the south-west end becomes 



STORMS.— III. 



( Continued from page 226.^ 

 Fig. 4 shows the dotted lines :only. To find the 

 direction of the wind at any point, the dotted line must 



vSrO^/W CkRD 



NORTHERN HEMISPHERE 



the warmer. At any of our seaside bathing places we 

 may note a similar difference in the summer bathing 

 season without the aid of a thermometer, by simply com- 

 paring our sensation on bathing before and after a change 

 of wind from sea-ward to shoreward, or vice-versa. 



be followed to the margin and read there. « The circles 

 are isobars or lines of equal barometric pressure ; the 

 barometer falls o"20 inch as you go from one of these 

 circles to the next inner one. This illustrates how the 

 barometer falls as you approach the centre, at first slowly, 



