The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-20
soME INTERESTING FIGURES.
A Synopsis OF the Meteorological Condition
Which Prevailed Here Last Year.

Observer Fred Johnson of the signal
service department in this city has COM
pIeted his annual report TO the signal SER
vice department concerning the meteoro-
logical conditions that prevailed last year
IN the country OF which Wichita is the cen
ter. 1t is an interesting report and syn
opsis OF il viii no doubt be interesting TO
farmers and others who ara interested in
such studies.
The average temperature during the
year was 30 or a shade less than 1870. The
highest temperature was So and the lowest
zero, while the highest and lowest during
1880 were 102 and above zero respectively.
The hottest day was Aug IS while the
coolest was Feb. 8. The absolute range OF
temperature was 81 last year against 102
the previous year. The probable absolute
range this year will be 1l5 as il has already
been II below zero.
The average range of temperature for
one day throughout the year was 90
while it was .. 1 the previous year.
The temperature went below 81 on 10l
days during 1891. and ninety-two days
during 1890. It went above so on twenty
three days during 1871 and fifty-fiee days
during 1890 The average temperature
did not go below II on any day during
1891 but went below II on six days during
1890. The year was not marked by ex-
tremes of heat or cold.
The total rainfall for the year was 81 .
inches, while in the previous year it was
but 242: in other words the rainfall oflS&
was not as much as it was between March
and July 81, of 1891, which was 2426-
The rainfall during these five months IN
1890 was only 1874 inches. During the
three critical months of 1891 which were
May, June and July, the rainfall was 9.l5
9 aud 20 inches respectively, while II
was only = Il, sos and and 80 during tho
same months of 1890
The general direction of the wind wa:
from the south during both years; Il
Travelled at an average rate OF nin'
and half miles in 1891 anc
nine miles in 1890. During the entire veal
Of 1890 the Wichita wind trav eled = s.;
miles while in 1891 it travelled IS. 500 miles.
In other words, if the wind went at ;
steady gait during the entire year Of 1871
a feather tossed IN the air here would be
waited around the globe three times and
as far rs east rs the Baltic sea on its fourth
trip. The highest velocity of the wind IN
1891. rs it passed this point. was forty nine
miles an hour April 1, while on March %
1890, it travelled as high as ffty-four miles
per hour.
During the years 1891 and 1890 there
were l6S cloudess days. In the year 1oal
there were liz partly cloudy days and i
cloudy days, while in 1890 there were lo-
partly cloudy days and IS cloudy days
The sky, SO far as its clear or cloudy condi
ton Is concerned, is measured by the eye
only The observer diyives the heavenly
arch into ten parts, with the eye OF course
aud by that means he can estimate how
many days are cloudy, partly cloudy and
clear. estimating il all the while by tenths,
In 1891 rain fell on ninety-one days. while
in 1891 If fell on eighty-One days. In lS9
it thandered on fifty-two days while il
numbered on fifty-six days in 1890.
Weather spectators can take the abovf
figures. If they have time, and ascertain
what the meteorological condition Of thu
current year viii be. II IS quite easy.