The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-20
GEORGIA SHORT ON RAIN.
The Average For the Year Not
Reached So Far in 1893.


Observer Park Morrill,, of the state
weather bureau, has just completed a
very interesting chapter on the wet
weather in Georgia for the last fifteen
years, and it is condensed as follows in
the Atlanta Journal
1T shows that this year, which is fast
drawing to a close, was year of sunshine
and that comparatively little rain has
fallen.
This means that Georgia, like many of
her citizens, is short on water but there
are few weeks of the year left and
there is a chance for her to catch up
through the Christmas holidays so near
at hand.
fifteen years the average rainfall has been
$685. inches.
This year, up to the first of December,
Georgia should have had 48.67 inches Of
rain, but she has had only 1890
inches, which makes her short just 1877
inches.
so far in December, that is, mp to this
morning, there have been but 40 inches
of rain. In order not to break the record
there must be S.91 inches of rain between
this and the first of January,
IF this much rain does not fall, the
year 1898 will go down in history as the
driest one in Georgia since the weather
bureau was opened, fifteen years ago.
Three months of this year, February,
May and June, have had a little more
than the average amount of rain.
"The other months have all been short
on rain especially the fall months, which
has made it better for gathering the cot
ton in Georgia this year than last.
1.-The figures compiled by Mr.. Morrill,
show that the driest year in Georgia be-
fore this in the last fifteen was 1890, when
the average rainfall was only AZ. 60 inches.
The wettest year in the last fifteen was
1888, when the rainfall was 649S inches.
1.-THE record shows that there has been
a uniform amount of rain each year, the
average fluctuations between three and
four inches.
''In every year there has been a dry
period during the first half of May and
another during the first half of October.
THE wettest period in the year is in
January, although there is nearly always
another wet spell in the latter portion OF
July. .......
"As compared with other months, Feb.
ruary and March take their place in the
wet column.
The average rainfall in January for
the last fifteen years has been 6.27 inches
which makes January the wettest month
in the year.
July COulGS III 1eAb, DIS GU6 average
amount for that month is 4.47.
October goes down as the driest month
in the year, with an average rainfall for
the fifteen years of 2.31 inches.
May comes next, with a record of 1865
The average amount of rain that has
fallen in each year in the months of De
cember, January, February and March is
22.21 inches, which makes up good part
of the rain for the year.
"The figures complied by Mr., Morrill,
show some very interesting facts. Fol-
fifteen years it has rained but once or
Oct. 81, and that was in 1881. The record
however, was only cracked then as only
.0S inches fell.
In the fifteen years it has rained or
Jan. /, every year except in 1880, 1888
1856 and 1889
Christmas day has coquetted between
the sunshine and the rain, for has raineC
on that day eight years out of the fifteeT
and has been sunshiny seven of them.
THE wettest day in Georgia for fifteeI
years was March 20, 1886, when the large
amount of 737 inches of rain fell
THE statistics in this wet weather
chapter will be valuable to the prophets
who study the sunshine and the clouds 0.
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