The Forrest City times., 1898-01-28
DECEMBER WEATHER
Interesting Data Compiled By the Little
Rock Weather bureau.

The Little Rock weather bureau has
just issued complete resume of mete-
/ geological statistics for the state for
the month of December. which will
prove of interest to weather students:
The mean temperature of the month,
4O.4 degrees, is 81 degrees below the
normal computed from fourteen years.
record, and higher than the mean tenn,
perature for December 1884, 1886 and
1887, when the mean temperatures were
3s.l degrees, $50 degrees and 1913 de-
grees respectively. The highest mean
temperatures were recorded as follows:
5s.S degrees in 1889, AL degrees in 1891,
400 degrees in 1896.
The maximum temperature for the
month, 81 degrees, has been exceeded
in four of the previous fourteen years,
IN 1888, when the maximum for the
month was So degrees; in 1899, when it
was SO degrees; in 1892, when it was 81
degrees, and in 1894, when it was SO
| degrees. The lowest maximum tenn
peratures for December are recorded as
follows: 67 degrees in 1886 and ~ de-
grees in 1884, 1887 and 1891
The minimum temperature for the
| month, 10 degrees, is about degrees
| higher than the average December
minimum. The highest minimum was
10 degrees in 1889, and the lowest IL
degrees below zero in 1898.
A comparison of the mean tempera-
ture of the state for December by de-
| cades with the December normal, shows
| a mean temperature for the first decade
| of 43 3 degrees, which is 81 degrees
above the normal; for the second de-
cade, mean temperature of 1873 de-
grees, which is 1.6 degrees below the
normal; for the third decade, 80 0 de-
grees, which is IA degrees below the
December normal.
The monthly precipitation averaged
600 inches for the state, LBS inches
greater than the fourteen-year normal.
The highest December average oc-
| CURED as follows: IL. SIS inches in 1884,
SOC in 1892, and 6.26 in 1887 the lowest
| averages were 0S5 inch in 1896, LOT
inches in 1886, and 1.S5 in 1898.
The average snowfall for the month
was 81 inches The greatest local
| amounts were 100 inches at Conway
and 9.s inches at Mount Nebo, while in
| localities over the southern half of the
state no snow was reported. But two
stations reported snow on the ground
on December Is, Winslow 200 inches
and Moore OIL inch. There was no
| snow on ground at end of month.
| A severe sleet storm prevailed over
the greater portion of the state from
the 18th to Goth inclusive, doing con-
siderable damage to telegraph, tele-
phone and electric light wires. and to
| fuit and forest trees and shru bbery.
The mean temperature of the month
was 40.4 degrees. The highest local
J monthly means were 46.4 degrees at
| Stamps, 400 degrees at warren, AS
degrees at Brinkley, and 45.3 degrees
at Blanchard, and the lowest were
$40 degrees at Winslow, $50 degrees
at Silver Springs, 35.5 degrees at Ore
| gon, and 35.S degrees at Powell.
The highest temperature recorded
was 81 degrees at Bee Branch on the
9th, and the lowest 10 degrees at Dali
las, Fayetteville and Winslow on the
4th. The highest average maximum
was $50 at Eion, and the lowest aver
| age minimum was 25.2 at Silver
| Springs.
| The greatest local daily range of tenn
| perature was so degrees, at Bee Branch
on the 5th. The mean maximum tenn
| perature for the state was 500 degrees,
and the mean maximum 31.3 degrees,
| giving mean daily range of 1915 deg.
| The warmest day generally was the
Sth, with an average maximum temper
ature of 69.2 degrees; the lowest tenn
peratures generally were recorded on
the Attn, the average minimum of that
| date being 1913 degrees.
| Average precipitation, 6 inches. The
| greatest local monthly amounts were
9.12 inches at Greenville, 9. II at Blanch-
ard, and 901 at Elon. The least local
amounts were 2.74 inches at Dardanelle,
8 10 inches at Silver Springs. and 4. 49
inches at Fulton.
| The days of greatest precipitation
were the 10th, 10Th, 21st and Sd, in the
order mentioned, on which dates SIS per
cent. of the total precipitation for the
month occurred. On the 5th, 9th, nth,
18th, Goth, 2Sun, 30th and 3lst a meas
urable amount of precipitation did not
occur within the state.