St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-02
HARDLY ENOUGH TO MAKE A RE-
SPECTACLE SHOWING DURING
THE YEAR.
OBSERVER LYONS REPORT
SHOWS 1905 TO HAVE HAD A NUM-
Der OF MARKED METEOROLOG-
ICAL ECCENTRICITIES.
VERY DRY AND ALSO VERY WARM.
Hottest September on Record. and a
Very Small Rainfall, but Excel
lent Crop Weather.

L. r. Lyons, In charge Of the local
United States weather bureau has just
| completed the following report of ne
neurological conditions for 1896:
United States Department of Agri-
culture, Weather Bureau Station,
st. Paul, Mimi, Jan. /, 1S96.-Latitude
"A deg SIS min, longitude west from
Washington 16 deg Is min, longitude
west from Greenwich SO deg min
The meteorological conditions during
| the year just ended We're remarkable
| for the evenness of temperature, sun
| shine and rainfall during the spring and
| summer seasons, and the unprece-
| dentedly warm spell in September, fol-
| lowed by an almost approximately
| dry spell in October, but fortunately
| these occurrences caused no loss aside
| from the Inconvenience to human and
| perhaps animal lie in general, and as
| to regulation, the favorable conditions
| mentioned at first, it Is almost needless
I to add, were about perfect. The phe-
nomenal crop of the Northwest for 1895,
as will emphasize the statement. The
condition of the Mississippi river is
another noteworthy thing, reference to
which will be made in another para
| graph. The mean temperature of the
| year was 43.5 deg, or just average, in
other words, it was no hotter nor colder
than usual. The highest temperature
was registered Sept. II, and the lowest
Feb. /, the registration being 81 above
| and Is below zero respectively. Tenn
| perature went above 80 deg on fourteen
days, seven of which were during the
first twenty days of September, and
| that spell was not only the hottest Of
| the year, but the hottest of any cor
| responding portion Of September on
record. TIE daily average temperature
was then 10 deg above normal. Tenn
perature went to 80 deg Greeting point
or below it at some time Of the night
or day on 154 days, and it remained at
or below that point at all hours both
| day and night for eighty-nine days.
In regard to precipitation (rain and
| melted snow the total for the year was
24.26 inches; that is deficient as COM
pared to the average by 3.52 inches.
There were 106 days with OF inch or
more precipitation, on 33 Of which snow
| fell. Total snowfall Gf unmelted), 23.4
inches; days clear, 1928; fair, 1873: cloudy.
| 10S On scale Of 0 to 10, ''0' standing
for cloudiess sky and TO- an entirely
| cloudy one, to 8 is classed clear. to
| Z inclusive. fair, and to 20 cloudy: av-
erage cloudiness for the year. 81; total
wind movement in miles, 69,l45; prevail
| ing direction, southeast; highest veloc-
ity, southeast 55 miles for 5 minutes on
Sept 6. There were So thunder storms,
of which March had 1; April, 4; May. s;
June, IL; July, 8; August 9; September,
g. Only two displays of the aurora bo-
reals were observed, and they were in
September.
Referring to the Mississippi river, on
the date Of it's opening, or when the Ice
went out, March %, the reading OF the
gauge was only or of a foot; the max
mum or highestg reading of the .year.
was 4.6 feet, June is and II. The start
ling insignificant amount of water in
the river during the early season, as
compared with former years, calls for
more than a mere note, and especially
since during April and May, or the sea-
son for highest water and floods, the
gauge readings ranged from a mini
mum of O.3 to a maximum of 2.5, while
during Julyzand August, or when the
river is usually lowest, they ranged
from 08 of foot to 81 feet, AS to these
details or elaboration may be out OF
place, but the protracted and intense
drouth and heat Of the summer and
early fall of 1894 and the consequent
complete drying up Of most of the lakes
and marked decrease of larger ones
and also the artificial ones, or reser-
yoirs constructed by the government
for the storage of surplus water in the
spring to be liberated in summer or
when most needed, must partly account
for the remarkable stages of water
given above, The SNOWMAN last WINTER
was but little less than the average,
but when it melted in the spring. about
all the resulting water was greedily alb
sorbed by the direct marshes, etc, and.
what surplus there might be was stor-
ed as stated, and liberated in the sum-
mer The accompanying tables contain
details and all that is Of additional i'm
| portance:
The tables referred to show the max
imum, minimum and average tempera-
lures and baromet:c pressures by
month The mean borometic pressure
was 30:02, the highest 30:S5, the lowest
1896 There were seven months when
the thermometer did not go below zero,
April to October inclusive. There were
| 1928 clear days. 129 fair days, and 1903
cloudy days, 106 days with .01 inch or
more of precipitation.
The prevailing wind for the year was
southeast, there being 204 observations
with southeast currents, 1853 northwest,
112 west, 101 southwest. II north 10
northeast, "a east, A south, 13 calm.
The highest velocity recorded was Sept.
6, SIS miles per hour.
THOMPSON DOING WELL.