The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-07-09
The Egis & Intelligencer
Bel Air, Md. July .. 1856.
chronological Record for June. 1855.

meteorological Record for June. lSS0.
Highest temperature on the nth. SO degrees.
Lowest " on the 18th and 9th. 81
Mean temperature of the month .... 1916 I"
n Mia ran DO inches.
the past Is years, not including this year, 7O.37
degrees; highest in 1874 1851 degrees; lowest in
ISL 61E degrees. This year, as above, GG.76 de-
grees, rod degrees cooler than any June for Is
years past
Mean rainfall in June for the last Is years,
4.l9 inches. Most in 1888 1921 inches least in
1873 LOS inches; this year, as above 5.25 inches
June is n month very variable in its rain fall
More or less rain fell on about 10 days. from the
wherein 2.6G inches fell. We have had very lit
tle thunder and lightning during the month,
little on the 18th and 18th. 1t is easy to account
Tor the extremely low temperature of the past
month. The excessive rains of May had so sat
urated the soil that in the change from dense to
rare, from liquid to vapor, as in the evaporation
from the floor of a sprinkled room, or from the
surface of living body, perspring freely, the
greater degrees of heat in June sun were alb
sorbed and disappeared. But what caused the
frequent rains through these last months and
still continues them? The rain of Friday, July
=, gave 2.i2 inches, powerful rain from the
north, as most of the rains have been, as much
or more than has often fallen in a whole month.
Now every one is allowed to theorize on the past
weather, much more reasonable thing than to
prophesy of the future. The excessive cold of
last winter covered the surface of the Arctic
seas with extended areas of ice. Great storms
breaking these up and prevailing northorly
winds driving these foes down along our north
ern coasts have chilled the air to the point of
ture to be again changed to vapor by a June sun;
to be again thrown down, keeping the Temporal
ture evenly low, while the GOODNESS was always
mttigated and moderated by the condensation
sufficiently to prevent froSts.
During the last of April and the first of May
many vessels were delayed at Halifax by ice
loes, and think much more than the usual guam
tity of ice has been reported. But can we gen.
eralize from this that after every excessively
cold winter we shall have wet. cool spring and
summer? Perhaps much is owing to the direc-
ton of the prevailing Winds
Since writing the above have taken the pains
to add the rain fall of the first six months Of the
years through all my record, reaching back to
1871, inclusive. | find for these fifteen years, a
mean rain fall to the last of June of % % inches
this year, "a Oh inches, or more than one foot
above the mean; most heretofore in 1881, 1884
inches or 500 inches less than last year; 1884 the
next wettest year. gave 27GS inches, or 635 inches
less than this year. Both January and February
of 1881 were very cold months, as was also Janu-
airy of 1884.
Since 1881 we have had wet springs, the rain
fall of the first six months never adding less
than 81 inches 1872 gave but 1857 inches or
2O.36 inches less than this extraordinary year.
G. q. G.
Oakland School, Fallston.
=. Stain fall to date duly b. 3 feet and 045
of an inch.