The record-union., 1895-08-29
DROPS OF RAIN FELL YESTERDAY.
But They Have No Particular Sig
nihcanCe.
Observer Barwick Shows That Early
Rains Have No influence on
the Season.

For q couple of days past the weather
has been cool and cloudy. reminding one
OF October. Light overcoats have been
found comfortable at night. and woolen
underwear has in some cases superseded
summer balbriggans. But there Will be
some warm weather yet. The days,
however, are growing perceptibly
shorter, and it will not be many weeks
until the real fall weather will be Oh.
The Weather Bureau reports show the
highest and lowest temperatures yester-
day to have been 81 and 54'. with gentle
to fresh southerly winds and cloudy and
hazy weather prevailing. There we're
several very light showers of rain during
yesterday.
The barometrical readings at A. NJ
and P. N. were 1886 and 1892 inches,
respectively.
The highest and lowest temperatures
one year ago yesterday were 1892 and IL,
one year ago to-day 90 and U.s..
| River, 9 feet inches.
| Rain in August has occurred in eight
years out of a w Gather Bureau record f
| nineteen years, but there never has yet,
| since Weather Bureau records began,
| been rain enough III August to measure;
| that is the amount has always been less
| than the one one-hundredth part OF an
! inch, as follows:
August l6, 1877, there was trace of
rain; August q, 1879, there was a trace;
August /, 1884, there was trace; August
| ., 1887. there was trace; August
| 80. 1888. there was trace; August 20, 1880,
| there was trace; August 3, Is, 1884, there
was a trace; August IS, 1895, there was
| trace.
The years that gave light traces of rain
| in August were followed by seasons
raintalls as follows: In lS77-8, 24.S6
inches; 1S79-S0, rs. AZ inches; lSS4-5, 16.5S
inches; lSS7-S, 1l.56 inches; 1oSS-9. 1895
| inches; 1S90-9l, 1881 inches, and 1S94-5,
"a. IL inches.
Out of these eight years which gave
sprinkles in August three of them gave
| heavy rains, or rather rainfall above the
! normal. These seasons were lSU-S,
lS79-S0, and 1S94-5. Three years gave
total seasons precipitation below the
normal. (The normal Is about 20 inches.)
! Those below the normal were lSo4-5.
18S7-S, and lS90-9l, while the season OF
1ooS-9 was equal to the normal.
| No satisfactory conclusion can be
drawn from early rains in August. The
| chances are about as favorable for the
i coming season to be a wet one as me-
dunn one, and only one chance in seven
OF lis being a dry one like ISIS, when
only 11.56 inches fell.
Running back To 1850. the records show
that an appreciable amount of rain fell in
August. 1862 col of al inch). The season
of 1868 was a dry one. with I.5S inches.
August, 1864, there was .0S of an inch,
and the following winter gave % 81
inches; August, 1876. gave .02 of an inch.
and the season produced only $50 inches.
Therefore the records show that good
aud appreciRble showers in August are
liable to be followed by dry season as
! by wet one.
Our extremely dry seasons in forty
years past were as follows: 1901, HI
inches; 1864, 7.S7 inches; 1901, 8.47
inches; 1867, S.96 inches. This was the
last extremely dry season. The driest
since then was 1878, when ll.56 inches
was measured. Then. whether the COM
| ing season of 1895 IS will be wet or dry
one cannot yet be torecasted or prognos-
/ ticated.