The evening times., 1896-12-02
NOVEMBER Put on tiIaIs tiIIss
Flowers Blosssmed in Public
Parks and Trees Leafed.
TEMPERATURE WAS AWAY UP
All the Anthracite Coal of Pennsyl-
vania Bursed In One Huge Pile
Could Not Have Made Up the DIFF
ference Weather Bureau Report
shows Remarkable Features.

The Weather Bureau finds that November
was q most remark able month. The aver
age temperature was higher than ever
known in this vicinity.
In the Capitol grounds flowers blossomcd.
They did the same in other public reserfa-
tons and in many private grounds Leaves
appeared on the naples and other early
trees which W ere located in sheltered places
The cause of this unusual heat has not
been explained, but had the entire anthra-
cite coal field of Pennsylvania been burned
during the month around the city IL could
not have raised the average temperature
OF the past To the mark reached thus month.
THE BUREAU REPORT.
The report of the bureau for November
shows the highest average temperature
known here in the twenty-five years since
the Weather Bureau, or its forerunner, the
Signal Service of the War Department, be-
gan to keep record. Not only Is IL the
highest. but 1t is so much the highest
as To excite wonder among scientific hen.
1t will probably be followed by a large
crop of theories rs to the cause of the
extra heat with which this region has
been favored.
The figures are shown by the following
statistics:
Mean temperature for November
AZ; ;1s12 AZ; 1873 IL: 1874, 40; 1873, Al;
1876, As; 1877. As: 1878, A.; 1879, 16;
1880. 40; 1881, As; 1882, 43; 1889, ~;
1854, 10; 1855, 45; 1886, 46; 1887, 40;
1888, Al; 1859, 40; 1890, As; 1881. IA;
1892, Al; 1898, Al; 1894, Al; 1895, 46;
1896, 81. -
Mean temperature for November FOR
twenty-five years, 46; average excess of
daily mean temperature during November,
/. accumulated excess OF daily mean tenn
peraturc since January l, 293; average
daily excess since January l, 90.
II will he seen that only twice before has
the mean temperature for the month come
within three degrees OF this years record,
and the average for the quarter OF cen
tury is five degrees lower than the average
for 1886. This means a difference OF mil
lions of effective foot-pounds of the suns
force in this atmosphere.
If 1t had not happened that the Western
blizzard broke over the wall OF the Allie
gheuics on the last day OF November, bring
ing the mercury suddenly down six de-
crccs below the freezing point, the record
would have been stiIl more striking. The
highest temperature for the month was "a
degrees on November =, and the lowest
was 26 degrees. on November 80. The
greatest daily range was 3S degrees, on
November Il.
THE RAINFALL.
The total rainfall for the month was very
slightly below the average, not enough TO
bc counted for much in see king the cause
Of the unusual warmth. The prevailing
winds were from the South and this un-
dJubtedly had something to do with the
excess or temperature.
M fros: record is presented, but there
were only a few days when the freezing
point was touched. on two or three morn
incs ice formed. and not more than five
others where cold enough for frost.
The report shows nine days clear. eight
partly cloudy a,=l thirteen cloudy. The
atmospheric pressure for the month did
not vary remarkably from the normal.