=Danger to Atlantic Coast Summer Resorts.= The writer frequently has been asked as to the possibilities of a populous Atlantic coast resort being submerged by the waters driven inshore by a hurricane, or being lifted up in the center of the storm as the result of decreased air pressure inside the cyclonic whirl. The answer is that such a catastrophe is possible to any Atlantic coast city (more especially those south of Norfolk) that is not protected by a heavy breakwater of ten to twenty feet above sea level, and whose building foundations and walls are not of brick or concrete for at least ten feet above the water level. It would be necessary for a West Indian hurricane of unusual intensity—one similar to that which wrecked Galveston—to be considerably deflected westward out of its normal track in order to hit one of our coast cities north of Chesapeake Bay so that the center of the storm would pass over it, or near enough to cause destruction. In Galveston there was little damage to strongly constructed buildings of brick or stone. =The Breaking of Droughts.= It is most important for the forecaster to know when and how droughts may be broken. He will observe that when the great cereal plains are famishing for moisture the Lows all originate on the middle or north Rocky Mountain plateau, in the region of Colorado or Montana, and that the drought continues until the Lows begin to form in the extreme southwest—in Arizona, New Mexico, or Texas. As previously stated such Lows always bring rain as they move northeastward. =Warm Waves.= There come in summer periods of almost stagnation in the drift of the Highs and the Lows across the continent. At such times if a High be centered in the South Atlantic Ocean, with its center at Bermuda, and its western limits extending into the South Atlantic coast States, there will result what is popularly known as a warm wave, for the air will slowly and steadily move from the southeast, where the pressure is greater, towards the northwest, where it is less; it will receive constant accretions of heat from the radiating surface of the earth, and finally attain to a temperature that is extremely uncomfortable to all forms of life, that lowers the physical stamina, and that largely increases the death rate. This superheated condition of the lower stratum of air in which we live continues until a Low develops in the southwest and a High in the northwest, which relation, as we already know, soon brings rainfall to the interior of the country. =V-shaped Lows= are reasonably sure to cause precipitation, and if the barometer at the center of the Low be five to seven tenths below the outer limits of the depression, heavy precipitation and destructive local storms may be expected.