14 E. Loomis—Contrthiitinns In Meteorology. 



notice. In my seventh paper the average velocity of the wind 

 at the stations of greatest rain-fall was found to be only ten 

 miles per hour, but in each case there was, within the low 

 area, some station where the wind attained a much greater 

 velocity. From column eleventh of the table on page 2 it is 

 seen that among the seventy-four cases recorded, there was no 

 instance in which the wind did not attain a velocity of sixteen 

 miles per hour at some one of the stations within the low area. 

 We also see that in fifty-three of the cases the velocity rose as 

 high as twenty-five miles per hour; in sixteen of the cases :t 

 rose to forty miles per hour ; and in three cases it exceeded 

 sixty miles per hour. These high velocities come from all 

 points of the compass, but most frequently from the south and 

 northeast. The southerly winds are slightly stronger than the 

 northerly winds, and the easterly winds are' decidedly stronger 

 than the westerly winds. The most remarkable feature of the 

 winds attending" a great fall of rain is their very uneq 

 at stations not very remote from each other. This will appear 

 from the following table which shows the direction and velocity 

 of the wind : t nine st itioi - near the Gulf of St. Lawrence for 

 Nos. 14, 15, 40, 41 and 42 of the table on page 2. 





In Nos. 14. 40 and 41 compare the velocity of the wind at 

 Quebec with the veloci! \\ i Father Point : also 



in Nos. 15 and 42 compare the velocity at Cape Rosier with 

 the velocities at Chatham and Sydney. It seems i 

 explain these observations except by" admitting that near the 

 station where the wind attained its greatest velocity, there was 

 a strong upward movement of the air, and that the void thus 

 left in the lower stratum of the atmosphere was supplied by 

 air flowing in with a smaller velocity from a much greater 

 geographical area. 



A similar conclusion is deduced from the observations made 

 near the Atlantic coast for Nos. 44, 48, 53, 55 and 56 as shown 

 in the following table. 



