RED RAIN

Lake County Press, Issue 979, 12 September 1901, Page 7

RED RAIN

The United States Weather Bureau lias issued a very interesting report on the many instances of dust storms and " red rain ” which have been recorded during recent years, one of the most recent being the fall of red rain and red dust observed on the steamship Queensmore (England to Baltimore) off the coast of Newfoundland early last year. In all eases where this dust and rain have been chemically analysed it has been found identical with the sands of the Desert of Sahara, and the conclusion arrived at is that tins copper-colored dust is taken up into the higher atmosphere by the numerous siroccos which blow in that region, and is afterwards carried by the upper wind currents to the places where they fall, and cause the phenomena, of red rain. The measured fall of this dust has been found to he. as high as one and a-half tons (3,0001b) per square mile. This was at Taormina, on March 20 of the present year. It is also stated that the red rain which fell in England on March 11 of this year was the first time that Sahara, dust has been known to be carried so far north as the British Isles.