  Title: Reading the Weather Author: Thomas Morris Longstreth Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 E-text prepared by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
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READING THE WEATHER
SHOWER BEHIND VALLEY FORGE
Courtesy of Richard F. Warren
READING THE
WEATHER
BY
T. MORRIS LONGSTRETH
ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS
By RICHARD F. WARREN
OUTING HANDBOOKS
Number 43
NEW YORK
OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY
MCMXV
Copyright, 1915, by
OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY
All rights reserved.
DEDICATED
with love, to my grandmother
MARY GIBSON HALDEMAN
herself responsible for so
much sunshine.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| Forecast | i | |
| I | Our Well-Ordered Atmosphere | 11 |
| II | The Clear Day | 20 |
| III | The Storm Cycle | 42 |
| IV | Sky Signs for Campers | 64 |
| The Clouds | 65 | |
| The Winds | 76 | |
| Temperatures | 86 | |
| Rain and Snow | 99 | |
| Dew and Frost | 112 | |
| The Thunderstorm Exposed | 116 | |
| The Tornado | 129 | |
| The Hurricane | 133 | |
| The Cloudburst | 139 | |
| The Halo | 140 | |
| V | The Barometer | 147 |
| VI | The Seasons | 157 |
| VII | The Weather Bureau | 167 |
| VIII | A Chapter of Explosions | 175 |
| Condensations | 185 | |
| Signs of Fair Weather | 185 | |
| Signs of Coming Storm | 187 | |
| Signs of Clearing | 189 | |
| When Will It Rain? | 190 | |
| Signs of Temperature Change | 191 | |
| Some Unsolved Weather Problems | 192 | |
| What the Weather Flags Mean | 193 | |
| Our Four World’s Records,—and Others | 195 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| Shower Behind Valley Forge | |
| PAGE | |
| Cirrus Deepening to Cirro-Stratus | 16 |
| Cirro Stratus with Cirro-Cumulus Beneath | 32 |
| Cirro-Cumulus to Alto-Stratus | 48 |
| Alto-Stratus | 80 |
| Cumulus | 96 |
| Stratus | 128 |
| Nimbus | 160 |
