March, 1922. Monthly Weather Review
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MARCH,1922. MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW. 188 and considerable loss of life. It was pa.rtrticularlysevere 38 that unusually heav rains have filled all but one of in the northern Depnrtment,s, whence come reports of t.he historic reservoirs o Aden.' numbers of persons killed and injured. Telegraph and Afrca.-Tetuan, Morocco,9 March %.-A severe snow- telephone lines were blown down, c,utting rommunicm- &om and int.ense cold ha.s int,errupt,ecl the movements tions enerally. The sborm off t.ho const stopped virt.u- of the Spa.nish t.roops in this vicinity. Communications ally a17 marine trafiic * * ;k.--BrooX.Z!/ri.Eof/lrq H.lnrrli with the outlying posts have been cut, as the hills sur- 9, 1929. rounding the city a.recovered with a thick layer of snow.- Pa.ris, March 23.--0n t,he seciontl (lay o.F spring surftw.e Ct'aehington Post., Mwck $.& 199.2. transportation in Paris wa.s demoralized by H. small bliz- Lourenco, Portuguese East Africa, Marc.h 4.4erious zard worse t,han any seen during t.he winter, and a.11 loss of life and damage to property wa.s caused by a France is white with an unusua.1 snow.-Brooklyn. Eaplp, t.ornado which recently swept t.he seaport town of Chinde, March 23, 1.922. in this territory, destroying the Government office and Switzerland.-Geneva, March 15.--Wint,er in the Swiss many other buildings and causing t.he sinking of numer- Alps has been so severe t.hi1.tscores of wild boars, wolves, ous 'launches and other craft in the port * * *.- and other animals have been driven to the towns and Iradtington Star, March 6, 1922. lowlands in search of food * * *.--2\Tqu~ Z'ork Ewning Japan.-Tokio, March 1.-Tokio to-day wm in the Mail, March. 16, 1929. grip of a. severe cold wave and snowstorm, according to Ifah/.-Venice, March 23.-A Cen t,rd News dispat.rh c1ispa.tches * * *.- lrnited Press, March 1, 1922. froni Venice says that a tidal wave late last night inun- Ha~(iaii..--Honolulu, March 19.-Semitorrential rains datecl the city, tlie water rising t.0 a depth of more than which have visited the Hawaiian Islands during the past 3 feet in some of the public squares.- Iliaahiruytori Post, week caused much damage and marooned many tourists March 2.4, 1922. and sightseers * * *. Estremely rough weather Genoa, March 25. --The tidal wave which the pa.st,few accompanied the rain, interisland vessel captains report- days has swept tlie Adriat.ic shores of Italy to-ds shifted ing the hardest, voyages in years.- Washington Evening to the Mediterranean side and est.entlec1 throug9 lout the Star, illarch 19, 1922. Italian Riviera. Many of the ridroacls and st,rects of Brazil.-There were destructive floods in the States of Genoa were inundated, forcing t,raffic to deviate in order Rio de Janiero and Sao Pa.ulo. * * * While in the to reach the center of t,he city. Ships anchored at various northeast the cotton crop is suffering from lack of rain, laces along the coast suff ered damage.-,.ls.sociaffd the rice crop in the S0ut.h is being damaged by ahnor- !Less. mally heavy precipitation.' Arabia.-Aden.-It is stated in the Thes on March 1 Ueteorolngical Xagazine, April, 19?2. DETAILS OF THE WEATHER IN THE UNITED STATES. GENERAL CONDITIONS. CYCLONES AND ANTICYCLONES. The outstanding feRLure of the month was perhaps the By W. P. DAY,Observer. excess of rainfall as shown in detail on t,lie inset. of Chart The month was unusual1 active, both HIGHS and LOW V. Heavy rains in March are due to the course hken exceeding the nornial. dst of the important storms by cyclonic systems of wind c.irculntinn which crnss t,he began as secondary deve1opment.s over the southern slope United Stat,es. of the Rockies or in the Great Basin and moved east- . During the current, mont41i these systems mnved from northectst to pass off the north Atlantic coast. High- Tesas northeastward, crossing t-he Mississi pi in the pressure areas were not so strong as during the precedm vicinity of Cairo, Ill., moving thence up t'he 0P iio Valley, month and few important ones were charted south o? ' and then passing almost direct$ eastward to t.he coast.. Canada, but the total number charted was the same in By a movement such as desc.ribecl t,hese storms cross each case. successively the western tribu taries of jMississippi, south of t,he Missouri, a.nd t,hus precipitat'e a lar e quan- I I, tity of water in the several basins so crossed. 8ontinu- ing up the Ohio Valley, the river of t,he same name must. also reach flood stage. While the c1iiant.it-y of wtder cbntributed by the stornis of the current month WHS not blarch.1922_.__.. I 6.0 6.0; 1.0 __.____7.0 ......._.____ 3.0 1.0 2LO in itself sufficient to roduce a large flood, it doiiht.lrss A~eragenumher, laid the foundation Por bhe great. flood which! at this clusive18921913, ........ in- ] 3.61 2.1; 1.11 0.31 *.9/ 1.31 0.41 011 011 11.8 writing (May 1). is passing clown the. lower Mississippi. Another esceptional feature of the weather wa.s the PlatQaU high mean pressure over the out.let through which pass and the great ma'ority of storms which traverse the United North South AI- Rocky Hud- ni(ins. I Pacific. Pacific. hrta. bfotin- Tot*'. States, viz, dew England and the St. Lawrence Va.lle,v. tain Reference'to the inset of Clinrt 11, shows the est,ent to I region. which pressure was a.bove the i1iea.n in that locality. This escess was due to t,he fact that, more t.han t,he usual 14.0 number of anticyclones passed over the region in ques- tion, which may be simply a.iJot,lierway of espressing the belief that the flow of polar air ecua.torward, for FREE-AIR CONDITIONS. some reason, followed the Hudson Bay- €ialifas route. By W.R. GEEQQ,Meteorologist. East of the Rocky Mountains the niont,h was warm and wet; to the westward it was cold and relatively dry. 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