Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-04-18
VOL. Xiv, NO. 2s.--wHOLE NO. 227o.

October, 60 :; November, Sc.
At Los Angeles, latitude 80 . M lon
GUIDE west lis m. by Assistant Sur
geon John s. Griffin, for ten months-from
June, IS47, to March, 1913, inclusive
The monthly mean temperature was: June,
% c; July, "A 9; August IS 9; Septem-
Der, 70 .; October 60 : November SO : !;
December, 60 >. This place is about for
ty miles from the coast.
At San Diego, latitude 80 45 m, Ion
gitude west III Q ii m, by Assistant Sur
geon ]. d. Summers, for the following
three months of 1919, viz July, monthly
mean temperature, II 6; August IS i;
| September, 20 :.
At Suttersville, on the Sacramento river,
latitude IS 32m. north, longitude west
l2l "a M, by Assistant Surgeon r. Muir
ray, for the following months of 1S49; Ju-
ly, monthly mean temperature 73o Au-
gust, 7Oo: September, 65 :; October,
65o
! These observations show a remarkably
high temperature at San Francisco during
the six months from October to March in-
elusive; variation of only eight degrees
in the monthly mean, and a mean tempera-
ture for the six moths of 81 degrees.
At Monterey we find the mean monthly
temperature from May to November, inclu
sive, varying only six degrees, and the mean
temperature of the seven months to have
been IS . If we take the three Summer
months, the mean heat was CO. The
mean of the three Winter months was lit
tie over 40 .; showing mean difference
on that part OF the coast, of only Ii be-
tween Summer and Winter.
The mean temperature of San Francis
CO, for the three winter months, was pre-
cisely the same as at Monterey little
over 49,.
! As these cities are only about one degree
and half distant from each other, and both
situated near the ocean, Temperature at both,
in summer, may very reasonably be suppos-
ed to be as nearly similar as the thermome-
ter shows it to be in winter.
The mean temperature Of July, August
and September, at San Diego, only 3 :
% N. south of Monterey, was rs. The
mean temperature of the same months at
Monterey was little over 80 Z" showing a
mean difference of -
This would seem to indicate that the
cold ocean current is thrown off from the
southern part of the coast by Point Concep-
ton, aud the Islands south Of it; and con-
sequently its influence on the climate of
San Diego is much less than at Monterey
and San Francisco.
At Los Angeles, 40 miles distant from
the coast, the mean temperature of the three
months is "A :; ofthe three Autumn months
g. of the three winter months51 ,.
| AT Suttersvllle, about 100 miles from the
ocean, and : north of Los Angeles, the
mean temperature of August, September,
and October was 81 ?. The mean temper
AZURE of tue same months at Monterey was
50 :; showing difference of s : between
the sea coast and the interior, Oh nearly the
same parallel of latitude. A much greater
difference would undoubtedly appear if we
( had observation for the Spring and Sum-
mer months at Suttersriie aud the gold
mines
These variations in the climate of Cali
/ fornia account for the various and conflict
| ing opinions and statements respecting ii.
A stranger arriving at San Francisco in
Summer is ANNOYED by the cold winds aud
/ fogs, and pronounces the climate intolera-
BILE. A few months will modify if not ban
ish his dislike, and he will not fail to ap-
preciate the beneficial effects of cool,
bracing atmosphere. Those who approach
California overland, through the passes of
the mountains, find the heat of Summer, in
the middle of the day, greater than they
have been accustomed to, and therefore ma
ny complain of it.
Those who take up their residence in the
valleys which are situated between the great
plain of the Sacramento and San Joaquin
and the coast range of hills, find the eli
mate, especially in the dry season as health
full and pleasant as it is possible for any eli
mate to be which possesses sufficient heat
to mature the cereal grains and edible roots
of the temperate zone.
/ The division OF the year into two distinct
seasons-dry and wet--lmpresses those
who have been accustomed to the variable
climate of the Atlantic States unfavorably.
The dry appearance of the country in sum-
mer and the difficulty of moving about in
winter, seem to impose serious difficulties
in the way Of agricultural prosperity, while
the many and decided advantages resulting
from the midness of Winter, and the bright
clear weather of Summer, are not appreci-
ated. These will appear when | come to
speak of the productions of California
We ought not to be surprised at the dislike
which the immigrants frequently express to
the climate. 1t is so unlike that from which
they come, that they cannot readily appre-
ciate It's advantages, or become reconclled
to its extremes of dry and wet.
If native of California were to go to
New England in Winter and see the ground
frozen and covered with SNOW, the streams
with ice, and find himself in temperature
many degrees colder than he had ever felt
before, he would probably be as much sur
prised that people could or would live in so
inhospitable region, as any immigrant ev-
er has been at what he has seen or felt in
California.
So much are our opinions influenced by
early impressions, the vicssitudes Of the
seasons with which We are familiar, love of
country, home and kindred, that we ought
never to hazard hasty opinion, when we
come in contact with circumstances entirely
different from those to which we have all