New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-07

any winter, as chance will have it, The track OF
the storms the continent Is the only assgna0ie
and 50 the course OF storms is beyond any fixed
rule prediction. Nor does the fact that December
has been unusually mild imply that January ana
February Will also be open and pleasant lie RECORDS
for some years snow great discrepancies III he aver
again, warm DccemDers have been followed by warm
Januarys.
The sequences are pretty much the result of ac
would result If all figures of average temperatures
were mixed up In hat and drawn out for the dlnereht
tions may be given, however. December. 1873, a
Iniid month, with an average OF 400 degrees, was
followed by January OF 40.3 degrees and February
OF b. degrees. For December, 1877. the mean was
degrees IN February 1t rose TO 800 desreeS. Inc
winter of lo79-sO was mild and even one. Decem-
ber's averase was ALL degrees; January's Alb do
eiees, and Februarys 40.s degrees December, lsol,
started off with All degrees January declined 70
3D. degrees, and February rose to lO.4 degrees.
In other series Of winter months the variations VIII
run from 36 degrees above the TO degrees below
Philadelphia Of the mean temperatures OF all the
months IN the year, running from looo 70 l12' Iut
facts it presents, other than that in the long run te
averages maintain themselves with remarkable con
stancy The figures show concluslyely that the Amer ra
can climate is not changing apprecaby and that there
no recuTent cycles apparent in the sequence OF
years, some warmer, some colder than those that
The Philadelphia table gives some interesting com
parSons with Dccembcrs Ot other years. The mean
Tor the last month Of the year III the quaker tty i
3i.1 degrees, something above the avnra1e for inc
whole country. December lo'1 db we the n T
nal temperature to AZ degrees December. 1877
shows a record Of 40 degrees. One has to back u
1857 to find another high avcrage-41 degrees. This
Is surpassed by 1o2, which gave All degrees Other
high wears were l51-. with 49, degrees 1929. with
43 degrees 1921, with 43.3 degrees; 1907, with 10
degrees 1900, with 40.5 degrees, and 1903. with
40.6 degrees
average Of 40 degrees or over. The fact that two
three or four months likely to from the
In the direction l. borne out In the announcement
by the Weather Bureau that the year 1889 has the
whole fallen below the general average. recent re-
port has the following statement:
The mean annual temperature Of Washington (1s7l TO
1889 IS 547 the temperature for 1889 539,
g the average. Had the loss OF temperature
evenly distributed throughout the different months
the mean temperature for December. 1899 would have
been $50 minus g. or "a 1856 being the tenn
perature of Decemberl. The temperature for De-
cember 1889, 4526 The annual and monthly os
ciation did not conspire. This shows that the warm
weather OF December not In any way connected with
temperature for the year, but due entirely to
abnormal conditions existing during the month. The
highest temperature for December, from 1871 70
Isss. AIS. in 1877; the lowest. 2G5, in 1876 the
difference 1913 the temperature Of Decem
Der up 1873; this year extends 10 to l9l.
1t may Le Of interest to know which the
warmc>t DAYS the month in different parts Of the
country In New York December - ana 20 were each
- degrees above the mean. In Washington the warm
est day was December 20, which showed excess
OF - degrees. December "A and 20 IN II. Louis
respectively 81 and 80 degrees above the aver
age. In Cleveland the hot spen came earlier. De
ccmber l. and l. in that city were "a degrees and
80 degrees warmer than they should have been.