The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-01

These are the only years during this period
when the mean for the month exceeded 30
degrees, and it will be seen that the January of
the present year has been the mildest by several
degrees that we have experienced for quarter
of a century.
The warmest day of the month was the 18th,
on which the highest point reached was 40
degrees, the lowest being AZ degrees, and the
mean temperature of the day 61 degrees This
was exceeded in 1868, when the highest mean of
any one day was 02 degrees, although the mean
for the month was but 1915 degrees; and again
In 1863 when the highest mean of any one day
was 63 degrees, and the mean of the month 1895
degrees.
On the 25th there was another extraordinarily
warm day. the highest point attained by the
thermometer being 60 degrees. At o'clock in
the morning of this day the thermometer stood
at 46 degrees; but by 10 o'clock it had risen to
60 degrees, stride of IA degrees in two hours,
and in midwinter at that.
The mean temperature of January 1869, which
our readers will remember to have been un-
usually mild was 37'02 degrees but 1t will be
seen to have been 4105 degrees below the mean
of the month just closed. The highest point
attained by the thermometer during the month
was 60 degrees, full 10 degrees below the re-
markable maximum of January, 1870.
The average of the mean temperature of the
month of January during the previous eighty
years was 81 '23 degrees, 9'S4 below the mean
of January, 1870, and 80 degrees below the
mean of January, 1869. The highest mean for
the month on record was attained in January,
tlJU, WnGu IL WAS "a OeGTees, q 30 ABOVE IDlJ OF
january, 1870, and Cos degrees above that of
January, 1869. The lowest mean for the month
was attained in 1857, when 1T was % 30 degrees,
1870 below that of January, 1870, and 14'65 de-
grees below that of January, 1869.
The mean temperature of December, 1869, was
37'31 degrees, in contrast with 1915 degrees in
January, 1868, and 3249 degrees as the average
OF the mean temperature of December for
eighty years past. But it still fell 3'76 degrees
below that of the following month, in defiance
of the maximum that las the days begin to
lengthen, the cold begins to strengthen"
The rain fall for the month was 4'07 inches, in
contrast with 42S inches in January. 1869, 3 62
inches in 1868, and 1'70 inches in 1867. The
most notable rain storm of the month occurred
on the I'd of the month. A fierce gale set in
from the northeast, accompanied by heavy rain
in the morning. At midnight the thermometer
had marked 4S degrees; at A. NJ. 1t stood at 81
degrees; and at 1 T. NJ when the rain ceased
it marked SO degrees AT 3 P. NJ. il was clear
but from ! p. NJ. the wind blew with great
violence from the south, the barometer falling
constantly after 2 p. NJ, when 1t stood at 2707
inches. The gale continued through the after
noon and night, the wind blowing from the
south-southwest and inflicting great damage
throughout the country. The storm was ac-
eompanied by an unusual rise in the waters of
the Delaware, Hudson, and other principal
rivers. The warm spell of the 18th was also
accompanied by o terrific tornado in Kentucky,
where the town of Cave City was entirely de-
molished, and twenty persons killed.
In the following table are given the maximum
and minimum temperatures of each day during
the MONTH in comparison with January, 1859,
according to the record kept at the Pennsylva.
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