RED RAIN.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 103, 17 September 1901, Page 4

RED RAIN.

The United States Weather Bureau has 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 Queenamore (England to Baltimore) off the coast of Newfound* land early last year. In .all cases whore 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 thit copper-coloured 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 r«d rain. The measured fall of this dnst baa been found to be as high as one and a half tons (3,0001 b) per square mile. This was at Tuormina, on March 20th of the present year: It is also stated tbat tb a red rain which fell in England on March 11th of this year was the first time thai, Sahara dust has been known to be carried so far north as the British Isles.