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Encyclopedia Britannica



NORTHER

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 784 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NEW-NUM
NORTHER , a winter wind accompanying the "cold wave" that follows the passage of a cyclone across the United States of America. A warm S.E. or S.W. wind on the
east
  of such a cyclone materially slackens or entirely dies away, and is followed, ofteit suddenly, by the piercingly cold norther. The passage
i The Territorial government embraced both the present states of North and
South
  Dakota.
4 Died in office on the loth of April 1880.
$.Died in office, July 1898.
4 Succeeded Frank A. Briggs, deceased, by virtue of his office of
lieutenant
 -
governor
 .of a cyclone across America is usually from W. to E., and the cyclonic
system
  of circulation would produce these results; but as the North American cyclones usually originate
east
  of the Rocky Mountains, the warm air
drawn
  from the Gulf of
Mexico
  is not only followed by the cold air
drawn
  from the Arctic regions, but the
body
  of cold air slides down the eastern slopes of the Rockies and advances as a solid wedge (the " cold wave ") under the cyclone itself. " Uncomfortably warm in the lightest clothing," a traveller upon the prairies of
Texas
  may become " uncomfortably cold before he can wrap his blanket around him " (W. Ferrel, A Popular Treatise on the Winds). The temperature may fall 5o F. in twenty-four hours,


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