St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1865-05-04

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and Maine, and has a range from
the ~ summer heat Of Southern
Ohio and Southern Penn,ylvasia.
Thus, In The breadth Of four degrees.
the summers Of Pennsylvania and Sar-
DINA Gn Italy,) are followed by the
winter Of Canada and Northern Rus
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~ It may be remarked, that the, hiAy
district ID the nertherr part of the
State, comprising about one-fourth of
its surface, has less chan $50 summer
heat, or the temperature Of Canada a aud
New England; whilst the remaining
:hree-fourths, having southern slope,
warmed by tue souther1y breeze that
sweeps up the great valley Of the Mis-
sissippi.: has general average Of 100
summer heat, 0, the climate Of Penn.
sy1vania and Ohio. '''.-5 ~
From rain tables prepared from ob-
'servations recorded for a series of years
at sixteen different places in. Canada
and the States, it appears that the mean
yearly fall Of rain for all the places is
IS s inches; whilst the mean yearly
fall at Fort Smelling is 25.4 inches. and
the mean summer tall for all the places
is liz inches, whilst the mean summer
fall at Fort Smelling is 10 9 inches.
Thus it will be seen, that while Min
nesota had yearly fall of rain ten
inches less than the mean of all the
places, its summer rain is but a frac-
tion Of an inch less than the mean sum-
mer rain Of all the places. It may be
added, that one-half Of the spring rain
falls in the month of May, and a frac-
ton more than one-half OF the rains of
autumn falls in September, giving more
than two.thirds Of the whole yearly
amount Of rain to the season Of vegeta-
bic growth, and leaving but the small
fraction to the remaining seven mouths
of the year. .,."':. IT, @~ II
81 Judging from the climate Of New
England, where the air is loaded with
vapor from the ocean: and the ground
Is for months covered with deep SHOWS :;
or Judging from the more southern Of
the Western States, where rain and
sleet are followed by severe cold, it has
been concluded that winter in Mime
sofa is a season Of terrible storm, deep
snow, and severe cold. The average
fall Of snow is about six inches per
month. This snow falls in small guam
titles, at different times, and is rarely
blown into drifts SO as to impede trav.
cling. The first snowfall of November
usually lays on the ground till March,
afording protection to the winter grain.
Occasionally at midday a sli git thaw
occurs in places with a southern de-
clivity. Two or three times in the
course Of eight or ten winters, the
ground has been uncovered for few
days Long driving snow storms are
unknown, and rain seldom falls during
the winter months. =. .'sa-....s.> --.-..
o2 With an average temperature Of l60
the dry atmosphere Of winter in Mime
sofa is less cold to the sense than the
warmer, yet damp climates Of States
several degrees further south: With
the new-ycar commences the extreme
cold Of our Minnesota winter, when,
for few days, the mercury ranges from
ten to thirty degrees below zero, falling
sometimes even below that. Yet the
severity Of these days is much softened
BY the brilliaucy of the sun and the
Stiffness of the air. Thus, while other
States, in lower latitudes, are being
drenched by the cold rain storm, or
buried beneath huge drifts of ,wintry
snow, M,nuesota enjoys a dry atmos-
pbere; and an slmost unbroken success
sion Of bright, cloudless days and Sc
rene star-lit nights and when the
moon scene Of Minnesota is one of peer
less grandeur s.,ss. IT,. 20, ~. s..}l
The farmer improves the winter sea-
son BY preparing fencing and fuel, aud
drawing to market the surplus products
Of his last years toll. Lumbermen are
busy in the forests eating ready logs
to be borne on the swollen streams of
spring to the various lumber manufac-
tories. Winters in Minnesota is a, sea.
son of ceaseless business activity and
constant social enjoyment; and by
those accustomed to long wintry storms
and continued alterations of mud and
cold: and snow, pronounced far prefera-
BILE to the winters in any section Of the
Northern Ststes. = a% ri: .s3.s .fs
March brings an average temperature
Of 81 aad 4 small increase of rain