Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-11
THE WEATHER.

Yesterday was the hottest day of the sea.
son, and the first time that the thermometer
has registered 100 degrees in the shade since
1879. Sergeant Barwick, of the Signal Ser
vice. gives the following statistics regarding
the heated term of past years:
During the four months of June, July, An.
gust and September. 1877, there were 90 days
that the maximum temperature reached from
80 to 104. Four months, june, July, August
and September, 1875 there were 45 DAYS with
maximum temperature from 80 to 100, and
during june. July. August and September.
1879. there were 81 days with maximum
temperature from 80 to 103. and for " days
from July 10th to August 18th. the maximum
temperature reached above 80 on each day,
being by far the longest continued spell of
hot weather that has been recorded since the
Signal Office has been established here, which
was on July l, 1877. In 1880 there was no
maximum temperature reaching to 80 in
June. and only 81 days during July, August
and September that the thermometer re-
corded temperature to equal and exceed 80.
The record will show from careful and
attentive perusal Ct it that the heated terms
of 1877 and 1879 wera exceedingly long, both
10 being hot from day to day, with no break
OF cooling atmosphere, the year 1877 being
the hottest of the two. The following is the
record spoken Of above:
June, 1877. gave days with q temperature
from 80 to 104; oh, 100; 10Th, 102; 1lth,
104. In July there were % days with maxi.
mum temperature from 80 to 1903. On the
18th it was 1903; 18th. 102; 14th, 100. Au-
gust gave IL days. with maximum tempera-
ture from 80 to 95. September gave IA days,
making total of % days for four months,
when the highest temperature recorded was
from 80 to I04
june, 1873, gave 10 days, with tempera-
ture from 30 to 80; July IA days, with tenn.
perature from 80 to 98: August Is days, with
temperature from 80 to 100; September 6
days, with temperature from 80 to 90, max
ing total of 40 days for the four months.
June. 1879. gave II days. with a tempera-
ture from 80 to 1903; July gave Ii days. with o
temperature from 80 to 100; August 10 days.
with a temperature from 30 to 103; Septem-
Der IL days, with temperature from 80 to
Sc, eight OF those days being in succession,
from the lat to the Sth /; for the four months
a total of 81 days on which the temperature
reached from 80 to 103. From July 10th to
August 18th, being q consecutive days, a
maximum temperature from 80 to 103 was
recorded.
june 1880, the maximum temperature
reached TO 90; July. 1850, gave days, with a
temperature from 80 to 9S; August 9 days,
with atemperature from 80 to 81; September
days. with temperature from 90 to 90;
making total of q days, for the three
months.
June, 1881, gave three days. with tenn.
perature from 80 TO 49,; July. IL days, with
temperature from 80 to 90; 6 days being con.
secutive. August z days with a tempera-
ture from 90 to So; September days, with a
temperature from 80 to 90; making o total of
20 days for the four months.
june, 1882. gave days with temperature
from 80 to 95; July. 10 days, with a TEN.
pera.ure from 80 to So; and August, up to
10sh, gave temperature from 80 to 100;
making total to date of 81 days, and the
first time temperature of 100 has been
reached since August, 1879.
The record for June, 1877, was furnished
by DIR. +. w. Hatch.