Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-06-07
- HEaFEp TERM.

In the Sacramento valley there has nov
been brief period of extreme heat, &C.
companied by a strong, desiccating north
wind. Bat the maximum temperature in
Sacramento on the 9Th was bat 80 g, while
in San Francisco, with all its bay and
ocean breezsa, it was 90. In 4 humid at.
mosphere 95' is equal to los in the dry
atmosphere Of Sacramento. At San Fran
cisco the people suffer more with heat when
the Thermometer ia so than Sacramentans
do with the mercury mp TO 95'. because 3
moist atmosphere when heated is, as all
know, SO very much more oppressive than
a dry one. The San Francisco Call says
that the 5th inst. there was the warmest
day except two since 1919. The people
certainly must suffer greatly with heat
when a San Francisco paper can be
brought to mention that it ia a hot day.
The Bay papers, as rule, find cut all
about the heat of the valley sections, and
a good deal more of it thsn valley residents
do, but are 10Th to give to the public any
account of the temperature of their own
city. Sacramento, which the ordinary
coast resident takes particular delight in
pointing out as so oppresaively warm, has
in truth suffered great deal Of misrepre-
sentation on that score, as the Signal Ser
vice thermometrical register shows. Take
the 9Th inst, as sample day, when the
heat here gave register Of less than 81 /,
while at Napa it was 1907, Santa Cruz 100,
Alameda l06', Oakland 1907, Salinas l0l',
San Jose from SO to l0S', Marysville 81,
Sonoma I03', Santa Rosa l02', San Fran
cisco 81 to 95.
OF course these are exceptional records,
but so is extreme heat here, though there
is higher general temperature in summer
in the Sacramento valley than on the
coast. But the mean temperature at this
city for the summer months is by no means
high, and speaks in the most positive
terms of the equability. of this climate.
The highest mean temperature for
June between 1853 and 1882, inclusive,
was II lS53); the highest for July was
so lS54; August, IS 1S66). The mean
temperature for June for the twenty. nine
years has been JOS; July, 70 8 /; August,
ZIG, and the mean for the whole period
II s. The highest mean temperature of
summer months was that of 1865, when it
was recorded as 74S In 1877, on the
l2.h Of July, the thermometer in Sscrs.
mento for q short time registered l03, and
was % for two days in August and 9S on
one day in September. It touched 81 in
May, 1878, once; SO June 26ih; 9S June
9th, reaching 1905 August l2.h. In
1879 it was 81 on the 3lst of May, 100 On
the ID of June and the 3lss OF July, and
l03 on the Iss of August. In 1880 the
highest Thermometer was on the 4th and
9Th of September, when 90 was registered.
In 1881, on the 23d of July, it touched IS,
and on the l4th of September 96.l In
1882 it reached 99S August 10Th. These
were the exceptionally warm days, all sue
ceeded by cool nights. 1t will be profita-
bic to note that in these years the mean
temperature for the summer was not high,
for in 1877 it was but 1875; 1878, 729 +;
1879, 72.9; 1880, eel; 1881, 6S.5; 1882.
Ill. II viii thus be seen that Sacra.
mento and its vicinity has record as to
temperature in which it may take rea.
sonable degree of pride, and that it is by
no means one of such heat as is popularity
supposed.