The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-08-04
JULY WEATHER.
Lieutenant FinIey's Review of Its Lead
ing Features.
The Month Was Cooler than Ordinarily
deficiency in the Rainfall in
Arizona and New Mexico.

Lieutenant John P. Finley, Chief Sig
nal Officer of the Pacific Coast, in his
weather review for July, remarks that
in conformity with the usual conditions
which prevail during the hight of the
''dry season. all storm areas lows) dur
ing the month of July passed eastward
from the Pacific Ocean over the British
Provinces, near the 10Th parallel. The
number of these areas has not been alb
normal, neither have they shown I'M
usual features as to a rapidity of move
ment or energy. We find as a conse-
quence, then, no remarkable changes in
the distribution of temperature and pre-
cipitation over the Pacific slope and
plateau regions. In fact, absolute yaria-
tions from the normal are in most places,
especially in California. unimportant.
A continuation of abnormally low
barometric pressures over the middle
plateau region maintained strong west
erly winds along the coast of Northern
California, which ranged IN the extreme
nom 20 to 10 miles per hour. These high
winds were especially steady during the
last half of the month, when the lows
followed each other in rapid succession,
accompanied with occasionally dense fog,
amounting at times to mist or fine rain.
There have been no periods of pro-
longed warm weather, and no especial
damage to vegetation from the prevalence
OF hot northers in California, nor Of hot
south winds in Nevada, Western Idaho,
and the eastern portions of Oregon and
Washington. The two latter districts
have had but two periods of pronounced
warm weather, viz: From the I'd to the
4th, and from the 9th to the 3lst; while
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almost uninterruptedly along the entire
Pacific Coast, yet at interior points the
weather has remained generally clear,
ana on the whole favorable TO vegetation
and the harvesting of crops.
RAINFALL.
1t has been generally below the normal
throughout the Pacific Slope and plateau
region. The greatest deficiency occurred
IN Southeastern Arizona, New Mexico
Utah and Southern Idaho, ranging from
so Of an inch in Idaho to go inches in
New Mexico. The region Of excess en-
braces extreme Northwest Oregon and
extreme Southwest Washington, ranging
from 10 TO 20. The deficiency in Cali
1ornia ranges from .02 TO - in the south
ern portion Of the State, and from trace
TO d in the northern portion Of the State
The deficiency in Nevada ranges from
"a to 10 Of an inch. No rain was reported
from California during the month. In
Arizona rain was reported on fifteen
days; in Nevada, on six days: in Oregon,
on eleven days; in Washington, on nine
teen days. The heaviest twenty-four
hours rain occurred as follows: Flagstaff,
Arizona, 1.50 inches, Odd; Navajo Springs,
Arizona, LAB inches. Goth; Spokane,
Wash, 1.26 inches. Ist: Tatoosh Island,
30 Of an inch, 18th.
TEMPERATURE.
The average temperature has been
generally below the normal along
the coast and north of the fortieth
parallel. The deficiency, however, has
been slight and ranges from one to three
degrees. The region of excess embraces
Southern and Southeastern California,
Southern Nevada, Arizona and New
Mexico, and ranges from one to four de-
grees, being greatest in the San Joaquin
Valley and New Mexico.
a small region of excess of one degree
embraces extreme Northeast Oregon and
extreme Southeast Washington. The ex-
IRENE maximum temperatures occurred
as follows: Yuma, 1120, Ist; The Needles,
ll0o, Sd; Fresno, ll00, 81; Red Bluff. 1852.
18th; Walla Walla. 1862, 30th; Baker City,
1902, Both and 3Ist. The minimum tenn
peratures: Baker City, $50, 9TH, 18th and
I'D; Carson City, 42', 18th and 18th;
Olympia, 440, 18th and 18th.
RAINFALL AND TEMPERATURE.