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HOFFMEYER'S facts respecting spells of warm weather in the Arctic winter, as reported in NATURE, vol. xvi. p. 294, are very interesting, but his explanation of them seems demonstrably insufficient. He thinks they are a phenomenon of the same kind with the Foehn of the Alps, which latter he explains by saying that a wind which at its origin is saturated with moisture will, when it is forced over a mountain chain, be raised 1° Cent. for every 200 metres of height of the mountains. The heat thus gained is liberated in the condensation of the vapour. I believe this is satisfactory as regards the Foehn.
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MURPHY, J. The Greenland Foehn. Nature 16, 340–341 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016340b0
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