LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Funnel-Shaped Cloud of a Tornado Frontispiece
Painted from an unusual Photograph
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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

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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