The Portland daily press., 1895-08-05
A COOL JULY.
Record Broken in New York-Perhaps this
is the Reason Why Summer Visitors in
Maine Have Been Fewer So Far This Sea-

New York, Aug 2.-The July just
ended is one which has had no precedent
in the twenty three years during which
the New York Weather Bureau has been
compiling temperatures and observing
weather conditions. AS whole it was
"record breaker" and in its figures for
single days it twice reached points lower
than the lowest recorded July tempera-
| ture of this vicinity.
When compared with last July the
difference is very marked. That month
was much like many which have preced-
ed it, having many hot days, and several
of still higher measure of warmth and
discomfort But at the local weather
bureau the officials are less interested in
extremes than they are in means; they
seem anxious to get another twenty years
Of figures with which to compare the
twcnty odd now recorded. The mean
temperatures for month do not convey
as clear an idea to the average man as
does reading of the thermometer at any
given time, but they are valuable for
| they show that July, 1894, was very much
warmer and more like its fellows than
was July, 1895, for the mean of it's highest
| temperatures was "a. 9, while the mean of
the highest temperatures for July. 1895,
was only Is degrees The same decided
falling off is shown in the figures for
So 5 degrees respectively. The general
mean temperature for July, 1894, was 76 1
| degrees, while that for last month was
only TO-, which is also three degrees
lower than the normal July temperature
| for the last twenty years
The local bureau also measures the
l tpto kay,, of.,pa 1,xr
rares them with the normal of twenty
years for that month The result is ex-
pressed as "excess'' or "def1cienoy " This
| method of figuring shows that July, 1894,
had an excess of temperature of 72 de-
grees; but July, 1895 had d deficiency of
95 degrees, which is regarded as sur
prising variation for that month. Other
figures show how peculiar was the July
just past Its highest temperature, oc-
curing on the 21st day of the month.
was only SO degrees, while the maximum
last July was 96 degrees on, the 2Sth In
minimum temperatures, also, this July
was twice ahead of last July, the lowest
temperature Of that month being So de-
grees, while there were two days in July,
1895, when the temperature fell to s..
degrees. Moreover, the highest daily
mean for July, 1894, was S. degrees,
while that of July, 1895 was only So de-
grees. Most people, however, take their
weather" at the level of the street, and
are interested in actual rather than
meteorological figures. The local forecast
or is always disappointing in a hot day
II one must suffer there is great salts
faction in the thought that the suffering
Is caused by a record breaking fight Of
the mercury. So the street figures for
July this year and last year have real
ly human interest.
They confirm the statement of the
Weather Bureau that the last month was
an odd one, for they show that in July
1894, the mercury seventeen, times climbed
higher than 30 degrees, and once touched
80 degrees, while in last July it's maxi
mum was 93 degrees, and on only one
other occasion did it reach 81 degrees
But Mr.. Dunn's station holds the record
for low temperature for both JuIys. the
lowest figures in the street for any day
being 6adegrees.