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Zurich Herald, 1955-09-08, Page 7What Causes The Hurricanes To Shift From Oldtme Routes Why the swirling winds leave their traditional paths toward the Deep South and Gulf Coast iu .a caprice of hurricanes that escapes pr e c i s e explanation. What is known, though, about hurricanes is this: Those that occasionally visit the United States form in two major regions, the southeastern part of the North Atlantic, south of and near the Cape Verde Is- lands, and the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. The average one lives nine days, though m August some have been known to last 12 The hurricane's cloudless core, or eye, is from five to 20 miles across. The area of destructive winds along the path of the hur- ricane may be from 25 to 500 miles wide, with winds of more than 150 miles an hour and gusts of even higher speeds. The storm may move forward slowly and sometimes—as did Hurricane Connie—stay still for a short time. In the tropics — where many a hurricane dies unobserved — the speed forward is usually 15 miles an hour or less. As the storm moves north- ward, the speed may increase to 50 miles an hour or more. The hurricane's cause is a con- siderably more complex matter than its appearance. Meteorolo- gists like to explain as much as they know about it in terms of convergences and divergen- ces. What this amounts to is that intersections of wind and air pressures bring about a drain- Ing.of air from areas aloft, creat- ing a fall of pressure in the column immediately beneath. Warm moist air from the sur- face rushes toward the low-pres- sure area, and the effects of the earth's rotation and converging winds create the whirling mass that forms the outer rim of the doughnut -like storm. Apparently we are having more numerous and more costly hurricanes. One and a half times as many storms are spotted each year now as at the turn of the century, though the total of 21 observed in 1933 has not been topped in recent years. And while on an average only two hurricanes reach the na- FISH, FLESH, FOWL—Tony Baird, takes on attributes of the finny and feathered world when he's at play. Towed by a fast motor- boat, he takes to the air with. aid of a kite while riding water skis. Holder of an unofficial world's altitude of 100 feet for this means of soaring, he's shown making the sport even more exciting by wearing only one ski. tion's coasts each year, there were three in 1954. Moreover, while pr o p e r t y damage last year topped by $500,000,000 the old 1938 record loss of $300,000,000) the resulting loss of life has dropped. The fury of the hurricanes last year brought death to an estimated 200,cornpared with 8,000 deaths in Galveston in 1900 and 1,800 deaths in Florida in 1928. The fact that more electronic eyes have been hunting down hurricanes explains in part why more are observed. Moreover, an improved warn- ing system is an important rea- son why the number of deaths has decreased in recent years. And in explaining the increase in property damage, officials point to the unexpected shift in the storms, at least last year, to industrialized areas of the north- east states and Ontario, writes Alvin Shuster in The New York Times Service. This shift has led some ex- perts to theorize that possibly a new pattern in hurricanes is shaping up. Under the old pattern the hur- ricane, asit started up the At- lantic coast, encountered - the prevailing westerlies moving across the United States from west to east. These winds tended to push- the hurricane out into the Atlantic. The coastal areas were spared., In recent years, though, me- teorogists have noted a pileup of air -- a high-pressure area, they call it — in the Atlantic off Maine and Newfoundland. This area, they think, may be acting as a hurricane roadblock, deflecting storms from their former course and sending them inland over the United States. From past experience, meteor- ologists figure that only five or 10 hurricanes a century would. be expected to hit New England. Yet Last year alone two of them — Carol and Edna — pounded the six -state region. A third, Hazel, went west of New England and on up to Canada in a remarkable display of in- dependence. No one knows when the area of high pressure is expected to leave its present home. Some guess it may be just about ready to fold upeits clouds and silently steal away. As long as it remains, though, there is the possibility of more extraordinary hurricanes for the Middle Atlantic and New Eng- land coastal areas. There have been no ideas ad- vanced en how to get this unin- vited neighbor to move. But there have been some ideas on how to minimize the effects of the hurricanes. One proposal for trying to switch the tracks on a fast-mov- ing swirling air mass involves oil saturation of the ocean be- neath it. Hurricanes die when they travel overland, partly because the landscape hinders the free flow of winds. The oil slick would be a kind of false land- scape, intended to .slow up some of the air currents that may be influential in deciding the hur- ricane's forward movement. Another idea involves an ef- fort to dissipate the hurricane's rain -carrying clouds, thus rob- bing it 'of the moisture needed to keep the storm going. Planes would fly aloft and bombard the storm with dry ice and more dry ice in an ef- fort to prevent rain. The rainmaker tries to intro- duce just enough particles to collect sufficient moisture to. fall to the ground. To break up a hurricane, the theory goes, the cloud -seeder would introduce so many artifi- cial particles that no single one could get enough moisture to fall. Cautious Weather Bureau of - "RED" MEN MEET -» Chippewa Chieftan Clear Sky and his wife, Evening Star, greet Vladimir Meitsgovich, chief of Russia's farm delegation which toured Canada and the United States. SWEET POTATO, SWEET PATOOTIES - Meet Mr. Yam and the Yamettes, daughters of South Louisiana yam farmers and ship- pers. The Yamettes are, from left, Jo Ann DeChicchis, June Amy, Julia Hawkins and Yvette Martin. Mr. Yam's identity is secret. ficials are quick to say that the intense fury of a hurricane could very well bar artificial efforts to kill it or change its course. They estimate that a hurricane expends in one minute more . energy than the entire United States produces in electric pow- er in 50 years. So with this in mind, the main expends in one minute more trate on locating a potential hur- ricane, mapping its expected path, and keeping the public ad- vised. EXOTIC DISH "My wife is a remarkable cook," said the city man. "She's always trying out some new recipe. Yesterday she met a friend who had lived in the East evhogave her a recipe for Chi- nese trifle. So she made it," "What did it taste like?" "Rice pudding." Many a true word is said in gesture. NOTHING TO CROW ABOUT — "Ellsworth", a tame crow, is recuperating from an experience thats strictly for the birds. His wing was broken by buckshot from a hunter's gun. Comfort- ing his pet is Kenneth Tebow. Police sought but failed to find the hunter. Veal On -The -Hoof Sold Automatically At the Ontario Stock Yards, Toronto, a new method of re- ceiving bids in the calf pen was tried recently for the first time on the North American contin- ent. Patterned after the Dutch method of selling live stock, the system employs a large electri- cal dial, nine feet high by three feet wide. The upper section of the mechanism uses lights to show the dollar price. A centre turning hand ticks off the cents in five cent graduations, Revol- ving counter -clockwise, the cents hand makes a complete revolu- tion in about six seconds. Speed of the cents hand can be stepped up or slowed down. Tlie lower section of the calf bid receiver shows in lights the registered number of the buyer after a sale has been made. Seats for fifty buyers are provided in a small amphitheatre. When the machine reaches the figure he wishes to pay, the buyer presses a button in front of him. The clock is automatically stopped and the buyer's number flashes on the bottom section of the dial. The mechanism is so rigged that af- ter a buyer touches his button, the buttons of other buyers are disconnected. As a protection to the seller, ' the commission agent retains command of the sale throughout. He instructs the clerk operating the dial where to start and when the price has dropped to the figure the commission man feels the animal should bring, he can stop the sale if no buyer shows interest up to that tine, Stopped sale animals are driven from the ring to be brought back at a later time. Let's witness an actual sale made through the sales ring on a recent trading day. The animal is driven into the ring. After examination, t h e commission salesman instructs the operator to start the machine at $24,00 per; •cwt. The figure flashes in lights on the upper face of the dial: The centre arm, represen- ing first 950 (offering price $23. - drop counter -clockwise register- ing lrst 950 (offering, price $23.- 95 23:95 per cwt.) and moving down in units of five' cents. No buyer presses his button and the cents indicator reaches zero, at which time the lighted figure at the top of the machine changes to 22 and the cents hand drops to 95. As this hand reaches the half- way mark, a buyer presses his button. Instantly the machine stops and the buyer's number lights up on the lower section of the dial. The sale price of $2.50 is clearly shown on the machine. Details of the sale are entered by the clerk and the calf is driven to the weigh scale to be weighed. When buyers and sellers' -agents become more fa- miliar with the new system, it is believed sales will be made in a matter of seconds. The new method of receiving bids at the Toronto Stock Yards, makes it. possible :for every in- terested buyer to see each am - mal offered at the market, and assures that the buyer willing to pay the most will be the pur- chaser. Average prices through the ring on the first clay of opera- tion, Wednesday, August 10th, were $1.00 to $1.50 per cwt. above the previous day's sales. After its first test, buyers and sellers alike expressed satisfaction with the operation of the .dial method and many predicted greatly in- creased receipts to the Stock Yards. The change in method of re - reeving bids in the calf pen is an attempt, to protide a service to producers in offering their veal calves automatically to the maximum number of buyers and to publicly determine a price on each draft offered. The sale of a large volume of veal calves in a Public Market affords buyers in all towns and Sea Brea Average depth of the sea its about two miles. .And it has been calculated that the force Of average waves breaking on the seashore is seventeen tons to the square yard. One of the biggest waves ever recorded in the Atlantic fell up- on the promenade deck of a 59,- 000 -ton liner in April, 1928. The wave extinguished a search- light 140 feet above the water. Tidal waves travel at 500 m.p.h. They are caused by sea- quakes -- earthquakes on the ocean floor. The actual colour of sea -water is blue. That so-called "sea green" colour is due to the pres- ence of yellow impurities, say scientists. A mathematician once calcu- lated it would take all the sea- water in . the world two million years to flow over Niagara. An analysis revealed that 1,000 grains of sea -water held twenty- seven grains of common salt and eight grains of other saline mat- ter. The Mediterranean and the Red Sea contain more salt than the larger oceans. It's a fallacy that drinking sea- water makes you go mad. It merely aggravates thirst. 'Tis sweet to him, who all the week . Through city -crowds must push his way, To stroll alone through fields and woods, And hallow thus the Sabbath -day. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge cities in Ontario or any centre in Eastern Canada, the best pos- . Bible opportunity to bid for the quality they -desire for their trade, in sufficient volume to maintain their supply weekly throughout the year. 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