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winds are usually weak, and only the warm southerly winds 
strong, the air will be always nearly saturated, when the soil 
hasa snow-covering, as the cold winds, in their slow progress, 
have the time for absorbing moisture. This feature of climate is 
extremely important in the examination of storms. It was one of 
vapor in the origin and progress of storms, and this is now gene- 
coast of Europe into the interior of the continent, but the baro- 
metric minima rise even more, so that for example, in Nertschinsk, 
ric minima are 
the other seasons. This shows that the storms of the Atlantic 
take their course over our country. Speaking generally, the path 
of storms is from N.W. to S.E. in winter, because they cannot 
advance in an eastward direction as they began, being arre 
must turn to the southward, and th e more the case 
in January than in November and March, when the storms of 
urope § imes advance into the interior of Sibert 
above, the heat is employed in melting the snow, or im the lan- 
Barnaul, in Western Siberia, has a winter temperature lower than 
St. Petersburg, by nearly 18° F. Yet the thermometer sometimes 
rises as high as in this last place in winter, because Barnaul has 
the Kirghi-steppes to the southwest. As they are seldom covered 
with snow, warm winds can across them and without losing 
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