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

In the Sacramento valley there has nov
been brief period of extreme heat. &C.
companied by a strong, desiccating north
wind. Bu. the maximum temperature in
Sacramento on the 9TH was but 90 g, while
in San Francisco. with all its bay and
ocean breezss, it was 95'. In humid at.
mosphere 95' is equal to l05' in the dry
atmosphere Of Sacramento. At San Fran.
cisco the people suffer more with heat when
the Thermometer is so than SacramentanH
do with the mercury up to 95', because 6
moist atmosphere when heated is, as all
know, so very much more oppressive than
dry one. The San Francisco Coll says
that the 5th inst. there was the warmes;
day except two since 1919. The people
certainly must suffer greatly with heat
when San Francisco paper can bs
brought to mention that it is hot day
The Bay papers, as a rule, find out al
about the heat Of the valley sections, and
a good deal more of it than 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 oppressiyely warm, has
in truth suffered great deal of misepre-
sentatiOn On that score, as the Signal Ser.
vice thermometrical register shows. Take
the 9Th inst. as a 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 96' to l0S', Marysville 97',
Sonoma 1913, 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 fol
June between 1853 and 1882, inclusive,
was II (lS53); the highest for July was
so (lS5A; August, rs (lS66). The mean
temperature for June for the twenty. nine
years has been 70.S; July, 70 3; August,
ZIG, and the mean for the whole period
II S. The highest mean temperature Of
summer months was that of 1865, when il
was recorded as 74S. In 1877, on She
10Th Of July, the thermometer in Sacra.
mento for short time registered I03, and
was % for two days in August aud 9S on
one day in September. It touched 81 in
May, 1878, once; SO June 26sh; 9S June
9th, reaching 1905 August l2sh. In
1879 it was 81 on the 3lst of May, 100 On
the I'd of June and the 3lst of July, and
lO3 on the LIST of August. In 1880 the
highest Thermometer was on the 4th and
9Th of September, when 80 was registered.
In 1881, on the 23i of July, it touched 9S,
and on the l4th of September 96.l. In
1882 it reached 99.S August 10th. These
were the exceptionally warm days, all sue.
ceeded by cool nights. 1t will be protita-
bic to note that in these years the mean
temperature for the summer was not high,
for in 1877 it wss but 73.5; 1875, y. g;
1879 729; 1880, 69.l; 1881, 6s.5; 1882,
I'll. Il will 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.