New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-30
TILE SrASONS PROGRESS.

With the elimination Of the current warm wave
,oidsummcr NAV be said to have been reacned'
ord now insensibly at first, perhaps, the season
i lil,e1v n take down grade toward cooler days,
lioht frosts. county fairs, school openings ana
foil overcoats Taking the average OF many
years. the annual temperature curve III t'.iS
vicinity reaches its highest point between july
% and %, although these particular days are no'
o,,rovs tbc hottest. August usually is urine
cooler but with enough extra humidity nearly 10
compensate for the thermometric iali.
In many rcsnects this has been an ideal summer
r. opencd very early: during May, IN iacr. lle
excursion business activity at the summer nouns
trade in light clothing and the pursuits oil t'lnSc
were all sent booming two or three weeks ea''ei
than usuol There has been an excess of rain IN
most of the seaboard States, and rather more
destructive local storms than we had last year
but of late the latter have been somewhat less
numerous and the month now closing has. not
heen marked by such continuously muggy weather
rs was juno. There has also been an abatcment
in the tendency to excessive heat. During the
first three weeks OF May there was an average OF
: degrees more heat in this city than Is normal.
June showed a temperature only degrees ABOVE
while July I'D to date, has on the whole kept JusG
at par The mercury, instead of frollcklng around
I'D in the nnetes and trying TO see how near IL
could come TO the limits Of our metropolitan
climate, has soberly kept down IN the seventies
and eighties, with only two or three tritnng eN-
ceptions the highest record made by Sergeant
Dunn's thermometer this summer being So de-
rrecs. on June 0 and July 6. The most casual
observer will notice that prOstratiOns from heat
hereabouts have scarcely been heard OF for weeks
while early last month they we're numerous.
The Tribune pointed out last winter that for
period of fifteen months, beginning with August,
1887 there had been a curiously persistent
tendency in New-Engand and the middle At
lantic States toward cold weather, and that re-
action set in about the first OF last November.
Since them with the exception of February our
only cold month this year, the temperature devla-
ton has been in the opposite direction. Novem-
Der. in this city, averaged "a degrees above the
normal: December, IL January, 10; February,
4 below: March, 81 above; April, May, 20
June ., and July 0. II is too early yet to say
whether this chapter of meteorological history is
closed or not If there is to be slow swing of
tbe pendulum so the other SIDE now, 1t would
slightly accelerate the downward movement Of
temperature which we ought to expect through
the next two months. So gentle is the grade at
first. though, that not until heavy West India
cyclone has come up the Atlantic, and brought
the customary sequel of severe and prolonged
cold wave, need we expect any autumnal hint:
and possibly September may this year, as it did
in other years. give us few days hotter than any
in all the preceding thirteen weeks No doubt a
very respectable remnant of summer is still left
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