The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-05
NOT SO H0TAS IT SEEMED
THE SIGNAL BUREAUS REVIEW
OF LAST YEARS WEATHER.

In Spite Of It's Hot Spells the Temper
ature for tho Year Considerably Be-
low the Average The Light Rainfall
In the Spring and Fall Made Up
by the Midsummer Floods-A Year
Of Few Storms
The meteorological conditions in the
vicinity OF Savannah during last year, as
shown by the records at the Signal Office,
are interesting, although in respect TO I'M
usual features the year was not remarkable.
The mean atmospheric pressure was nor
NAL, being 30.00l inches, and although there
were several periods of high and "low"
pressure, they were not so marked as to
cause such severe storms as Savannah has
sometimes witnessed The highest barome-
ter was 30.57 inches on Feb. s. There are
three years on record in which the barome-
ter has reached greater height. The low
est barometer was 2947 inches on Dec. "A.
This is by no means an unusually low ba-
rometer.
The prevalent opinion that the year was
unusually warm turns out to be incorrect.
The records show that the mean annual
temperature for 1887 was %. II, which Is .
below the normal 1t was therefore a colder
year than even the previous one, which Is
noted for its extreme cold wave of Jan. II.
THE HOTTEST DAY OF THE YEAR
The highest temperature, as shown by the
Signal Bureaus STRENGTHENING thernome-
ters, was 101 g., on July Is. This, with one
exception, is the highest temperature re-
corded here, and the average for the day,
July IS, was so, the highest daily average
rprnrUaH in That dqV will
long be remembered as an excessively hot
one throughout the State, the thermometer
at various points ranging from 100 to lOo'.
The cOldest day was on Jan. 4, when the
minimum Thermometer reached l6 /. There
have twice been lower temperatures than
this, in 1880 on Dee. 20, and in 1856 on Jan.
II. The extreme range for the year echpseS
all former records, there being difference
of S5.6' between the highest and lowest tenn
peratures. February was unusually warm
for the season; July was hot but not SO hot
as in some former years. The mercury was
above the 90 mark OH thirty-seven days out
of 365, and sank below the freezing point on
eleven days.
MOIST YEAR
The climate was somewhat moister than
it usually IS. the relative humidity being J
per cent. above the average, and it was not
50 very clo-dy or rainy either. The clOudi-
ItSH was dDOuL lHt dNtI age. ne uIiilittI
of wholly clear days was 40, which is the
greatest number recorded except in 1884.
There were III days on which rain fell,
and the total amount o. rainfall for the
year was A. o. inches. This is deficiency
of S.2l inches. The rainfall in the spring
and autumn months was remarkably light.
The amount for November, % inches, is
the least rainfall for any month on record.
The precipitation for june was quite heavy,
t,,s,, t,,,h -
this fell on the 10Th, 21th and 2Sth of the
month. On these days the rain in this city
was 50 heovy that the streets
wer, flooded with water, the sewers
being unable to carry it off.
and throughout this State, Alabama and
South Carolina the rainfall was excessive.
causing one of the heaviest freshets ever
known in the Savannah and other rivers OF
Georgia. Rice plantations were flooded,
and the crops were almost entirely destroyed.
THE MIDSUMMER STORMS.
The storm was cyclone which came up
from the Gulf and remained nearly sta
tionary for two days over Western and
Northern Georgia.
There were no violent wind storms during
the year, and the wind at no time attained
a greater velocity than 36 miles per hour.
This was on July %, but it was steady, and
the little windmill-ike affair on the post
office building kept on checking up the miles
with scarcely a minutes cessation until it
ran up list Of "a, 1874 miles for the year
This beats any year except 1881, which will
be remembered by Savannahians as the
year of the great cyclone
The thunder storms during the year were
quite numerous Altogether there were
fifty, but none of them were severe The
last frost in the spring occurred on April ,
and the first in the fall on Oct 81.