Los Angeles herald., 1892-03-25
THE CLIMATE OF SOUTHERN CALI
FORNIA.

clan of San Diego, entitled. "The Medi-
terranean Shores of America-Southern
California, Its Climatology, etc." 1t is
the work of thoroughly equipped sci
enlist and medical man, and it should
find its way to every member of that
,,rxn class whose health and even life
ara dependent upon their weather eh'
vironments. 1t will form available sd-
iunct to Charles Dudley Warmers "Italy
OF America" in convincing multitudes
who yearly HE themselves to Nice, Men
tone, Hyeres, and other resorts in the
south of France, in the Riviera and on
the Mediterranean shores of Africa, that
they don't need to go out of their own
country to secure good climate-one in
many respects superior to any they can
find abroad.
DR.. Remondino's book of one hundred
and sixty pages embraces great variety
of topics, and abounds in good deal of
descriptive matter which will interest
any one who would be likely to take the
trip to Southern California. He is quite
impartial in his treatment OF the differ
ent counties and cities composing this
end of the state, and his book has dis
tinct scientific quality aside from its
literary and descriptive features. In
his preface he says: Southern Cal
"ifornia climatology is quite study;
"many of its meteorological results are
"even real puzzles-puzzles met with
"nowhere else. 1t has many oddities;
"ior instance, one of the greatest pc
"culiarities or oddities of this climate
Consists in the relative conditions ex.
'isting between the degrees of tempera
"ture and the degrees Of atmospheric
humidity. 1t is this atmospheric con-
edition that puzzles all newcomers, and
"that is incomprehensible to the aver
'age observer OF meteorological condi-
'tions and their results. As medical
"visitor once observed to the writer ::
"'Nature has evidently fitted Southern
"California meteorology with such a
mice self-adjusting regulator that eli
"matic accidents to health cannot occur
''to you. With rise in the thermom-
'eter you have a double discounting
"dimnution in your humidity, and
with fall in your thermometer you
"have an equal double discount of an
increase in your humidity, which at
''once produces equability. 1 do not
"know of region on the wide globe
"that is 80 favored."'
The doctor dwells on the fact that
delicate ladies may walk the streets of
the Southern California cities without
even the protection of sunshade when
the temperature is over 100 degrees in
the shade, without discomfort, enerva-
tion or resulting accident. He himself
witnessed this spectacle in Los Angeles
in July, 1890, the excessive heat being
due to forest fires. The temperature of
the coast is exceedingly equable. truth
which is demonstrated by the fact that
the cautionary storm signals sent out
for the signal station at San Diego, con-
sisting of the various-colored flags and
lanterns that are generally used at sea
ports in the rest of the United States,
were returned to the Washington Office
after having laid there for eight years.
The doctor has never discovered light
ning-r in Southern California, and de-
clares that neither linen busters, fur
coats, sunshades, nor any other stormy
weather. heat or cold preventives, are
necessary. His enthusiasm leads him
to exclaim: The enchanted isles of the
"dreams OF our free and careless youth
''ful Imagination have here their actual
earthly reality; the Paradise. as far as
"climate can make it, is in this favored
"region. Here disease and death may
"be kept at bay and life enjoyed to the
lend Of the term of mans natural ex-
"istence."
1t is very much the habit OF persons
unacquainted with the diversities of the
climate of Southern California to speak
OF it as whole, as if one place had
precisely the same climate as another.
DR.. Remondino points out the absurd
ity of this hasty generalization. and
says that this is just about as sensible
as it wonld be to ascribe to the valley of
the Aosta. that of Susa or the hills of the
Apennines the climate of the Riviera or
of Venice. Genoa, although on the
same shores as Mentone, possesses an
altogether different and inferior climate.
DIR. Remondino asserts that Southern
California has six different kinds of
climate, and classifes them thus:
l. A purely insular climate.
2. The peninsular climate.
g. The coast climate.
4. The foothill and valley climate,
200 to 2500 feet elevation.
5. The mountain climate, from 25OO to
5000 feet elevation.
6. The desert climate, from 800 feet
below sea level to 2500 feet elevation.
The writer will add, from his own OBJ
servation, that within scope of very
few miles the most surprising varieties
OF climate may be found. There are
places in Southern California that have
sovereign and instant efficacy in GER
tain classes of ailments. As 3 case in