CIGARETTE PAPERS

Southland Times, Issue 21854, 3 November 1932, Page 6

CIGARETTE PAPERS

. WINDS. This is the period of breezes, both in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and it is interesting to recall that the world has quite a goodly collection of winds important enough to have special names. • The Trade Winds are not so named because they are good for wind-driven trade or commerce, but because they trade (or tread) the same course. They are continuous and blow chiefly in the tropics. On the north side of the equator they blow from the northeast and on the south side from the southeast. The Mistral is a violent northwest wind blowing down the Gulf of Lyons, and felt particularly at Marseilles and southeastern France. The Monsoon is the famous Indian Ocean wind which blows from the southwest from the latter part of April to the middle of October, and from the northeast from about the middle of October to April. The Pampero is a South American wind, a dry northwester, which blows from the Andes across the pampas to the Atlantic. The Puna Winds are the driest and most parching of all, prevailing for four months in the table-lands of Peru. The Samiel (or Simoon) warns of its approach in Africa and Arabia by a redness in the air. It is hot and suffocating. (samma, “destructive”). The Sirocco is a hot, dust-laden wind originating in the deserts of northern Africa, and blowing across the Mediterranean to Italy and Sicily. The Solano is a hot, dusty, southeast wind of Spain. The Spaniards say, “Never ask a favour during the Solano. The Etesian Winds are refreshing breezes which blow for about 40 days each year across the Mediterranean. The Harmattan blows periodically from the interior of Africa to the Atlantic. It is a withering wind and prevails in December, January and February. The Khamsin (Arabic for “fifty”) is an Egyptian wind which blows for 50 days, from the end of April to the inundation of the Nile. —CRITICUS.