Advanced Geography . Winds and Rains oi July — Northern Summei. belt twice each year, — once as it moves north, and again as it - OCEAN CURRENTS. 23 goes south. Such places have two wet seasons and two dry seasonsyearly. In the lowlands having the single rainy season each year,grass and flowers grow in abundance while the wet weather lasts,but in the dry months the vegetation withers away. In someplaces the ground then becomes parched and dry, like a desert. over that ocean. The ocean eddies north of the equator moveslowly in the direction in which the hands of a clock turn. Theocean eddies so
Advanced Geography . Winds and Rains oi July — Northern Summei. belt twice each year, — once as it moves north, and again as it - OCEAN CURRENTS. 23 goes south. Such places have two wet seasons and two dry seasonsyearly. In the lowlands having the single rainy season each year,grass and flowers grow in abundance while the wet weather lasts,but in the dry months the vegetation withers away. In someplaces the ground then becomes parched and dry, like a desert. over that ocean. The ocean eddies north of the equator moveslowly in the direction in which the hands of a clock turn. Theocean eddies south of the equator move in the opposite direction,or against the hands of a clock. In the southern cool belt the oceans spread all the way round the earth. There the drifting. V Winds and Rains of January — Northern Winter. Topics: — Cause of winds; trade winds; how winds are named;belt between trade winds; westerly winds; kinds of storms inwesterly winds; polar winds; cause of rainfall; rainfall from tradewinds; equatorial rain belt; rains from westerly winds; shiftingrain belt; monsoons; life in equatorial rain belt. waters on the southern sides ofthe Pacific, Atlantic and Indianeddies unite to form a great cur-rent sweeping slowly towards theeast. This current flows entirelyaround the Antarctic ocean andmay be called the Antarctic receives cold water from thesouth polar ocean. Part of the water of theNorth Atlantic eddy flowsbetween the island of Cubaand the mainland of NorthAmerica. The current issu-ing from this passage is calledthe Gulf stream. Joining therest of the eddy, the Gulfstream spreads as a broaddrift far to the northeastacross the Atlantic ocean. The large branch of the Northruns northeastward towards the ArcticThis is the drift
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