Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-02
OUR CLIMATE.
AN OFFICIAL REVIEW OF ITS
GREAT MERITS.
Interesting and Instructive Compar-
isons-Soutbern California and
the Sacramento Valley.

contains some comparisons and records
which are of interest and value:
The climate, etc, of both Yuba and SUIT
ter counties, as well as Of all other portions
of this great and prosperous State, have
been written up so fully and frequently of
late, that find it rather hard to produce
anything that will be new in the way of
comparative meteorology. The mean
monthly average temperature for the coun-
ties named above, as deduced from obser-
vations of the railroad company for num-
Der of years at Marysville, and of Mr..
Hubbard, of Wheatland, as well as the
record of Alvah Pendleton, of Nicolaus,
will be compared with Eastern points as
obtained from the Chief Signal officers
annual report. By these comparisons we
find the mean average temperature of
1uba and Suffer counties for December to
be equivalent to spring in Philadelphia,
the Atlantic coast of Virginia, Pittsburp.
Pa, Columbus, O., Keokuk, Ia, and Ari-
IONA also, Paris and Cannes, in France.
and the same as December in Naples and
Rome, in Italy.
For January the mean average tempera-
ture is equivalent to spring in New York
city, northern Ohio, central Iowa and
southern Colorado.
For February the mean average tenn
perature is equivalent to autumn in Bos-
ton, Mass. Albany, Buffalo and Oswego.
n. Y, Detroit, Mich, Chicago, central
Iowa, Omaha, Neb., southern Colorado
and Cannes, France.
The mean average winter temperatures
for Yuba and Suffer counties are eouiva-
lent to April in Philadelphia, the Allan
tic coast of Virginia and northern Ohio.
central Iowa, Omaha, Neb., and Paris,
France; and also equivalent to May in
Rhode Island and the Upper Lake region
and the eastern slope of the Rocky Noun
tains north of Cheyenne, Wyoming Terri
tory.
The average winter temperatures for
1uba and Suffer counties are higher than
those of Naples, Mentone, San Reno,
Rome, Pisa, Genoa, Nice and Florence,
Italy, and Toulon, Marseilles and Cannes
France
The average winter temperatures of the
two counties above named, as compared
with places in the southern portion of the
United States, are the same as Montgom-
cry, Ala, Vicksburg, Miss, and warmer
than the winters in North Carolina, Au-
gusta and Atlanta, Ga, Shreveport, La,
Little Rock, Ark, any portion of the Ten
nessee and the greater portion of Texas
and Arizona.
The above shows plainly and conclusive
ly what all Sacramento valley people
know, and that is, our winters are equiva-
lent to spring in the Eastern States and as
far south as Richmond, Va.
In the comparisons of the mean tenn
perature by seasons with Marysville, Los
Angeles and Riverside the figures make
the average winter temperature the same
at Marysville as Riverside, 500; Los An
geles, $40. Mean spring temperature
Riverside, GO; Los Angeles, $50; Marys-
vile, $50. Mean summer temperature:
Riverside, 740; Los Angeles, $50; Marys-
vile, 7So. Mean fall temperature: River
side, $50; Los Angeles, 630; MarysviIle,
66o.
The average winter and fall temperature
is the same in Marysville as at Riverside,
while the mean spring temperature is
higher at Riverside by 40 than at Mays
vile, but Marysville is 80 warmer during
the spring than is Los Angeles.
The average summer temperature, of
course, is warmer in Suffer and Yuba
counties than in Los Angeles and River
side, being 40 warmer than Riverside and
loo warmer than Los Angeles. Notwith-
standing the great difference between the
average summer temperature of Marys-
vile and Los Angeles, the latter place has
as high temperature (maximum) as
Marysville. In fact, Los Angeles can boast
OF maximum temperature of 500 and
over, for every month from March to Oc-
tober, as the following figures will show,
both being railroad maximum figures:
Los Angeles March, 1862; April, 99o;
May, 1912; June, 112o; July, lO0o; Au-
gust, 1902; September, 1909; October, 1909.
Marysville $50; April, 90;
May, 1922; June, 1852; July, 1862; Au-
gust. 1862; September, 1917; October, $50.
The lowest minimum Temperatures from
1874 to 1885, inclusive, for both places, by
the railroad reports, were 24o at Marys-
vile and $50 at Los Angeles.
The average number of clear DAYS in
winter at Los Angeles is AZ, as against 3S
in Marysville; spring, Los Angeles 80,
Marysville 40; summer, Los Angeles 81
Marysville So; fall, Los Angeles 55, Marys-
vile SO.
Oranges color here in the fall before
they do at Los Angeles, because we have
warmer average temperature for autumn,
and an average of IA more clear, sun
shiny days than does Los Angeles.
1t has been said by Los Angeles people
that Sacramento has hotter nights during
summer than they. The Chief Signal
Officers annual report for 1887 gives the
average "A A. NJ temperature for nine
years, and from that record the following
comparisons with Sacramento are made:
May June July Aug. Sep.
Los Angeles. ............. 81 SIS so 81 Is