The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-17

Tho Climatic Conditions in the Various
BorouEhs of the City.

Ano NAlNAANAS IN N"o Nv
BorouEhs of the City.
New York lies. according to the geographers.
in latitude north 40' As %" and longitude
45o SIS So west OF Greenwich. but students
OF the weather agree that atmospherically and
dramatically the city is to be found at no such
fixed point. Persons who have not thought
much about this subject have a way OF saying.
when cool July days come. that 1T feels like
fall" As a matter Of fact IL does feel a little so;
that is, in one particular-the matter Of tenn
perature. What has really happened. however. is
that the city has slipped out OF her usual July at
mosphere. or. more accurately. her atmospheric
jacket has shifted out Of place. and instead Of
Tampa weather the city has Adirondack
weather. The jacket may shift as far the other
way q week later, and the city may swelter in
the heats and damps OF q Charleston July.
Sometimes the jacket shifts 30 as to bring to
New York the dry heats Of the middle West.
Very often It shifts just enough to give the
town cool. damp. off-shore weather.
Many persons are weather. wise. but few arc
true connoisseurs in climate. Those who are
| become peculiarly sensitive to this shifting Of
| the city's atmospheric jacket. 1t takes no spe-
cial skill or constituencies. however, to recognize
differences OF climate in different parts OF New
York. Parts Of Brooklyn have more Of the or
shore climate than the upper part of the bor-
ough Of Manhattan. while the borough Of the
Bronx is near to having q climate of its own.
! 1t was q fairly good imitation of autumn
weather that visited the borough OF the Bronx
q week after the hottest Sunday Of the season.
Even the birds seemed a little deceived by II,
probably because most OF them, never having
visited the Adirondacks. were unable to iden-
tify the characteristic summer weather Of that
region when the sudden shifting Of the at
mospheric jacket brought 1t down. Some Of the
I lid, aaAaal 1tnrtnr md dhNu-aI m fan1nnNy
to gather in focks and discuss the question OF
migration. Many suburban jewellers, as igno-
rant as the birds OF Adirondack weather. went
indoors and lighted their hearth fires; Had
t ting k oTtSoo II; t ali T GaS ionE vas an6 4rdi@ rienk iGr sl IN
health. The borough of the Bronx has a repu-
tation for malaria. but those who know about
these things have discovered that a steady
course OF outdoor life in the suburbs is almost
as good as q visit TO the mountains,
autumn weather during the cool spell had only
to &c into the suburban woodlands, Here the
senses. Ears said autumn, but eyes and nose
denied It, while, that sixth comparative sense
which the psychologists have been talking
the testimony Of the ears. There was an au,
tumnal soughing Of wind through the wood
thickets late a June had been blowI
hickorynut or butternut now and .theE
seemed to speak Of autumn. but the chest
The forming Of q full-grown hiekorynut OIL
butternut. with its dense horny shell and tough
leathery hull. Is a more serious matter than the
dumping of q chestnut shell. hence the. chest
nuts are In bloom long after the young hickory.
nuts and butternuts are well grown. Blu
even il the chestnut blossoms did not proclaim
July. the dense, greenery everywhere w0ule
and surest autumnal indication. the golden rod
is never seen in July.
Those to whom, the autumnal temperature o
cool July days brings something OF autumna
melancholy never have long TO wait for another
shifting Of the atmospheric Jacket. New York
despite the indications Of latitude and longi
tude, never stays long in the same climati,
zone. for the weather mar has never succeeded
in buttoning that atmospheric jacket tigh
enough to prevent its slipping.