The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-23
An Unusually Heavy Rain
fall Yesterday.
Fall the Heaviest in Six Years
With One Exception.
Mean Temperature For July so Far
Averaged is Very High.

1t may not be realized but yesterdays
storm was productive CT remarkable
heavy rainfall. During the day there was
fall of |. 73 inches, which Is greater than
any single day has produced, with one OK
ception, during the past six years.
Between and q O'clock the rain fell to
the depth of .4S OF an inch which Is the
record for Julys. There have been greater
rates heretofore in othor months, notably
In August, 1876, when the rate was
nearly six inches an hour That was de-
luge which flooded the streets and made
umbrellas of no consequence as u means
of protection.
Ii is said by those who have lot TO do
with weather that "a three-inch rate makes
umbrellas yalueless as the downpour Is
so great.
The storm began at 3 o'clock Thursday
morning and continued until early this
morning The mean direction of the wind
was south and IL attained "a velocity OF II
miles an hour which Is regarded as a
whjstling gait. IL was at Its highest
point between and o'clock.
At q O'Clock the wind and rain wero
having merry time. The rain was drop
an inch an hour and the streets were
flooded In the down town section.
No damage was reported and there was
no extra work for the employees OF the
highway department..
Ii was the greatest storm of the month
in the way of rainfall. and it made almost
half of the total fall for the entire month.
Thus far in July the total rainfall has
been 3. 80.
The record for the past six years is as
follows:
July, 1896, l.3i; 1895. o. which is the
record breaker; the greatest fall In a
single storm that year was .36. which was
IA good deal less than the storm of yester-
day. In 1894 the fall was n, and the
single storm record was Lei; in July, 1892,
the total fall was ]. 10 and the greatest In
any single storm was 30; in lS92 the fall
was /. S6, with q record of 1. 20 for single
storm; in 1891 tho fall was 81. and g. IL
for a single storm.
The total fall In June was g IL, which
was s. above tho normal.
This July has outstripped Its fellows OF
the past six years In its mean tempera-
ture. Nearly every one knew it was
not. but they were not prepared TO say it
was record maker. Such is the fact,
however.
The mean temperature up to Thursday
was 75.9 Ii has been remarkably uni
form, and In this respect 1t surpasses the
others In the past six years. Last year
up To this time the mean temperature
was Ti.S
The record for the past six years is as
follows
1897. 75.9 1896, 74S; 1885, 7l2; 1894,
7h2; 1893, 72.2, and 1892, I'll.
There nave been five days when the
thermometer registered more than 30.
July it was 90, on the Sth IL was 81. D,
on tho 9th IL was "a and on the 18th IL
| WAS 90 8 -
There has beon a general complaint
about the extreme wetness of this July.
SO far there have been nine wet days. 1t
rained from the 1lth To the lith. Also on
the 10th, Goth, 2lst. 22d and 23d.
Tho rainfall on the 1ltn was .06 on the
18th to the 18th it was .9S on the 10Th,
ga; on the Goth and 2lst IL was .49, and
OH the 2}d it was l. az.
1t will thus be seen that tho average
has been light The rainy days were
noticeable because they came together,
and the ono of yesterday, To speak in tho
yernacular. was a dandy.