The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-07-26
The Weather.

| The temperature of the air yesterday was quite
cool and comfortable, in comparison with what il
Was during the greater part of last week. The
thermometer yesterday was not above IS degrees in
the shade-plenty hot enough. This is 10 degree:
below the weather mark Of last Thursday and Fri
day. 1t looked showery all the forenoon, and some
rain fell in the morning and between twelve and
two O'clock but after this hour the skies were dry
and the weather toerable How long 1t win remain
so it is difficult to cay.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD.
The heat Saturday, ed inst reached ee degrees a
IL aud IL A. M and Sunday Esd inst % degrees a,
JPN
The heated term ranging from 90 to 90 degrees maxi
mum temperature, has continued for six consecutive
days filing eight sections Of the circle Of 500 hours
Thunder storms have been abundant during the whole
OF the heated term commencing Monday 18th inst, at
Washington City and IN Pennsylvania Tuesday lsth on
the edge OF the Gulf stream during which the shp Van
daiia struck by lightning; Wednesday, 1eth q.
Toronto Upper Canada; Thursday, 20th at Rock Island
Friday eist, at Washington City, Boston, Newburyport
and Georgetown, Mass Friday night and Saturday morn.
ing Lightning of distant thunder storms visible from
my place Of observation n W. n and f., during the en-.
tire night and at A. H. Saturday ooruscated every
second Saturday, odd and Sunday 3d. thunder heard
frequently at my plsce OF obseryatonthus instead OF
the heat terminating with great electric effort,
1t sppears 10 have been ali the time connected with
electric manifestations.
have looked through my thermometricsl memoranda
which embraces forty Of the months of July in
last fifty years. and do not find any term during which
the temperature has risen to above 90 degrees on
than three consecutive days The month Of July
1872, the last yellow fever year in New York, comes
nearest to this Of any Of the years high
temperature In July Of that year the temperature
TO and above - degrees on ten days viz. list
o. 9TH, es; ~ and sth, s2 10TH si 18th, o. GOTH
days. and rain on eleven days, in that month.
During the present month Of July including yester-
day, there have been nine hot days as follows Sd
o6 deg; 4th, 90; 5th 100 18th, eo 10TH 81 GOTH 9S
2lst, %; 22d %; 23d, %.
During the last eight years preceding the present the
temperature in tn month Of July has to and above
90 degrees on but twenty days in ALL The month
OF July this year already presents third of that
Nhos namuer anu o. sea'sr .emPeraiures
january Of the present year for the Southern hemis
phere january there the corresponding month July
here Ny associate observer there makes hourly theymo
metrical observations The sheet presents the follow
ing the maximum temperature:--2d, % dogs. Sd,
10Th iso dogs 10TH q dess 9th. 81 dsss Ssth 81
dogs Goth, % deg The LIST, 18th, 18th and 18TH no
records were made. On the 4th, at six O'Clock in the
morning rain shower passed over, and the tempera-
tuIe fell 70 60 degs being change Of &C degs fifteen
Tho observations in the Southern are made by Mrs. a.
r McIaren Shepard, daughter Of Rev. DR., McAreu Of
Newburg, Lady Of talent and observation and may be
The hourly records now made for me by Or. Kane,
Up the Arctic regions will contrast widely with those
made by Mrs Shepard the opposite side Of the globe
l have before me the Franc ,nia records. This is
mountain town in New Hampshire, whore there more
of over seventy Of than in almost any
town in the country in proportion to the inhabitants
and there on the LIST day of january the tenn
perature IS degrees above Zero and the 18th
degrees ange of 81 degrees eleven days
and hen again, the LIST day Of June ct the To-
cahty, the temperature was 81 hgrees, with
storm. - degrees colder than the first day Of January
have also before the records of hourly ober-
yatons made for me in the Polar regions BY Captain De
Haven in which he records-0n the 22d of February,
1851, temperature the ice, hundred yards from
the vessel So degrees below zero "a degrees below the
freezing point The difference in temperature in the
records Mrs Shepard OF January 1854 and those
Of Captain De Haven OF the pod February 1851, is
hundred and seventy two degrees On the - OF April,
1851 Captain Ne Haven records the temperature al 40
degrees above Zero, degrees above the freezing
point: and. he adds altogether a warm andlmeng day
Mrs shepard, in December 1885, day records q
temperature Of % degrees and in the evening down
IS degrees, two degrees above heat and
: cool that woonen garments were necessary
Brooklyn Heights, July "a, 1854 E. MERRIAM