The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-03-02
sons it is found that, for all the ter

ritory of the United States except
Alaska, the average for spring is
92 inches, for summer 1913, autumn
so and winter S.6.
This fall of water is disposed of
by flowing through the rivers, by
passing into the earth, by evapora-
tion and by being consumed by
plants and animals, The run-off is
estimad at 40 to so per cent, in
the interior states east of the 95th
meridian and much less west of that,
The run-off is largest about the
great lakes, diminishing slowly to-
ward the southest and rapidly to-
ward the southwest.
As arule the per cent. of evapor-
alton is greatest where the run-ofr
is least. West of the Rocky noun
tain divide the run.off is small and
the evaporation large
For the whole country the rain
fall is greatest in June and least in
October, greatest in the summer
season and least in the autumn.
The northeast has the most even
ly distributed rainfall. At New
York city 45.2 inches is the annual
average and the least monthly aver
age is about 3.5 inches in December
and January and the greatest
average about 40 in July and Au-
gust.
Toward the south and west the
climate gradually progresses to-
ward rainy and dry seasons till the
extremes of this feature are reach
ed on the middle Pacific coast and
on the northwest coast of South
America.
Key West and San Francisco are
the places of greatest extremes and
their extremes are opposite each
other. Key West has an annual
average of JO.1 inches with Z inches
in September and only 1.6 in De.
cember and 2 inches in January.
San Francisco takes the opposite
of this and with an annual rainfall
OF 23, 6 inches has about inches in
January and 81 inches in December
while June, July, August aud Sep
tember are almost wholly without
rain
The heaYiest rainfalls recorded in
one day are at Pensacola, Florida,
10 inches; New London, Connecticut,
ll.S inches. Along a line drawn
through Cape Cod, Mass, Charles.
ton, S. G., the southern parts of
Georgia and Alabama, central Mis-
3issippi to point little west of
Houston, Texas, n inches of rain
frequently falls in one day,
At Oswego, New York, and in
western Oregon, thirty or more days
Of rainfall have occurred in success.
ion and these points are noted for
snail rains throughout the year. In
the Missouri and Mississippi valleys
the number of consecutive days Of
sometimes reaches between
ten and twenty,
At Yuma, Arizona, periods Of l67
days without rain occur At Sacra-
mento, California, 100 days pass
rain; at San Francisco l42 |
days, Los Angeles 1870 days,San Die,
go 1856, Fort Wingate, north ives
tern New Mexico, 12I.
Draw line from the gulf through
Texas, to Bismar2, North
thence to Puget Sound on
the north Pacific coast and south |
and west Of that line periods of
thirty days withoutrain often occur
eliminating IA the longest Of drouth |
periods at Yuma and San Diego
North and east Of that line thirty |
days without rain, seldom, If ever,
occur, except at Key West, where
thirty.nine days, Jacksonville thirty
four days ond TitusviIIe, Florida,
about, or a little less than thirty |
days have passed without rain,
While the longest drouths occur
in the southern parts Of our nation
al territory the shortest droutbs
occur IN the northeast including the
lower lakes, Ohio, West Virginia,
and parts of adjoining states.
The shortest drouths, never ex|
tending beyond fourteen days with
out rain, occur at Eastport Maine,
Then comes Rochester N, Y, with
a limit Of fifteen days and oswego |
with eighteen days
This information is CLEANED from
records Of the national weather bu.
reau and Is valuable for many rea-
sons and to many classes Of people,
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