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Identifier: physicalgeograph00tarr (find matches)
Title: The physical geography of New York state
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Tarr, Ralph S. (Ralph Stockman), 1864-1912 Turner, E. T. (Ebenezer Tousey)
Subjects: Physical geography -- New York (State) Glacial epoch Great Lakes (North America) New York (State) -- Climate New York (State) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company London, Macmillan & co., ltd.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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inland, over that semi-tropicalregion, it unites with the general current, and reaches usas the warm and moist southwesterly wind of summer,giving the abundant rainfall characteristic of that season. Finally, the temporary winds of class c are responsiblefor the variability of weather which is so marked a featureof our climate. The low barometer areas of America moveeastward at an average rate of 800 miles per day, and inthe large majority of cases pass centrally over the vicinityof the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Valley, drawing inmasses of air from the ocean and the south, at the sametime giving rain or snow over the northeastern States.These disturbances recur at intervals of three or fourdays, on an average, in winter, but with less frequencyand strength in summer. They are generally followed byhigh-pressure systems from the interior, whose outflowingwinds are characteristically dry and cold; so that, in fact, PRESSURE-INCHES. RAINFALL-INCHES. EMPERATURE - DEGREES FAH g X fc X «
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