Funnel-Shaped Cloud of a Tornado | Frontispiece |
Painted from an unusual Photograph |
| FACING PAGE |
Exploring the Upper Air—Beginning of a Pilot Balloon Flight | 32 |
Exploring the Upper Air—Sending Up a Sounding Balloon | 32 |
Meteorograph for Use with a Sounding Balloon | 33 |
Kite Meteorograph to be Sent Aloft Attached to a Kite | 33 |
Alto-cumulus—Fleecy Masses Showing Blue Sky Between | 96 |
Cumulus, or Wool-pack Cloud | 96 |
Mammato-cumulus, or “Rain Balls” | 97 |
Cumulo-nimbus—the Thundercloud | 97 |
Cloud Banner Over Mount Assiniboine, Canadian Rockies | 100 |
Cirrus, with Lower Clouds in the Foreground | 100 |
Lenticular Cloud Over Mount Rainier | 101 |
Ice Storm at Philadelphia—Trees Covered with Glaze | 116 |
Nieve Penitente in the Argentine Andes | 117 |
Clouds or Fog Cascading Through Last Fork CaÑon Into Santa Anita CaÑon | 136 |
Cloudburst in Southern Utah | 137 |
Photographic Analysis of Lightning—Single and Double Discharges | 160 |
Photograph of Lightning, Showing “Black” Flashes | 161 |
Atmospheric Electricity Instruments | 161 |
Glass Weather Map in the United States Weather Bureau | 224 |
The Sun Drawing Water | 225 |
Orchard Heaters in Operation as Protection Against Expected Frost | 256 |
Snow Surveyor at Work, Using a Cylindrical Snow Sampler | 257 |
Snow Rollers, or Wind-blown Snowballs | 257 |
Bed of the Potomac River Photographed from the Air | 288 |
Drilling with Compressed Air in a Copper Mine | 289 |
Launching a Weather Bureau Kite to Explore the Air Over the Ocean | 289 |
Weather Bureau Kiosk, Union Square, San Francisco | 320 |
United States Weather Bureau Station at Peoria, Illinois | 320 |
Central Office of the United States Weather Bureau at Washington | 321 |