310 
CLINE. 
be expected. In 1890 Senator P. B. Plumb, of Kansas, ad¬ 
dressed a note to the Signal Office asking that a paper be 
prepared and published on this subject; nothing, however, 
was published in this connection. Almost all that has been 
published on this subject is contained in two papers, one on 
“The hot winds of the Plains,”* by Mr. G. E. Curtis, and 
the other on “ Hot winds in Texas May 29 and 30, 1892,”f 
by the writer. 
My attention was first attracted to this subject in 1886, 
while stationed as observer at Abilene, Texas. A personal 
knowledge of these winds and their effects in connection 
with agricultural interests led me to collect all the facts re¬ 
corded in connection with these phenomena since 1870- 
The records of voluntary observers and reports of agricul¬ 
tural bodies, together with those of State weather services, 
have been examined in this connection, and all notes bear¬ 
ing on the subject have been extracted and will be found in 
the succeeding pages of this paper. 
In the following transcript of records the more important 
meteorological phenomena in connection with each period 
of hot winds are noted. Three charts, showing the three 
types of pressure, with distribution of temperature, state of 
weather, and direction of wind at the time of occurrence of 
hot winds in summer over different parts of the eastern 
Pocky Mountain slope, are printed herewith (plates 4,5, and 
6). These plates are copied from the United States weather 
map, except that the data have been entered and isobars 
drawn for the western portion of the country where not al¬ 
ready drawn, and the isotherms have been drawn for each 
five degrees. In a few instances the isobars on the original 
charts have been redrawn on these charts in the light of 
fuller knowledge. On each chart is shown the movement 
of the area of low pressure with which the hot winds oc- 
*Jn Seventh Biennial Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture. 
8°. Topeka, 1891, part 2, pp. 162-183. 
f In American Meteorological Journal. 8°. Boston, Ginn & co., 1893, 
Feb., vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 437-443. 
