The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-09-06
HOT AND DRY.
A Heated Summer Follows Cold and
Rainy Winter.

The Columbia State says the month
Of August just past was record
breaker for heat and drought. Since
the weather bureau was established II
years ago, the month of August has
never presented as many consecutive
days of heat as it has this year. The
mornings and evenings have been pleas
ant for the past week or so, but the
heat during the day has been severe.
The whole summer has been warm, and
in July abnormally so.
Mr.. J. W. Bauer, director of the
weather bureau, has given some in
teresting facts in connection with the
long dry spell. The hottest day this
year was July 18th, when the ther-
mometer reached 105. The coldest day
was l degree below zero, showing a
variance Of l06 degrees at this station
since the year began.
While the summer has been remark
ably hot and dry, the winterwas colder
than usual. The average temperature
for January was l degree colder, and
for February 6 degrees colder than the
normal. March, however, was trife
warmer, and April was colder than
ordinarily. The average deficiency in
temperature for the entire winter was
4 degrees per day, OF in other words,
each day this past winter was 4 degrees
colder than the average for the past II
years. The deficiency in temperature
was 252 in February and for the entire
season 273 degrees.
The precipitation this year has been
abnormal. When the growing season
began in March there was an excess Of
5inches ia the rainfall. This contin-
ued until about the middle of April,
when the excess reached as high as 81
inches. The dry spell' then began,
and has continued uninterruptedly.
The average normal precipitation
between March and September is 25.75
inches. This year it has been but 49,
80 inches, showing that while the rains
Of the spring ran the average rainfall 5!
inches in excess Of the normal, the hot
weather has reduced that excess until
it has become an actual deficiency Of
9.45 inches for the summer months, or
about4 inches since January l.
There have been 81 days since May
1when the mercury ran over the 80
degree mark. May 3 was the first day
.hen the maximum temperature was
over 80 degrees. There were "A days
in May when that maximum was
reached. The rainfall in that month
was but J inch, reducing the previous
excess to II inches
The hot weather record kept up in
June. There were % days in that
month when the thermometer regis
tered over 80. Five days showed
maximum Of 100 degrees and oyer.
There was but half the usual amount
of rainfall and the previous excess in
precipitation became deficiency Of
Ito of an inch.
It was abnormally hot in July There
were % days when the thermometer
registered over 80. For four consecu-
tive days there was record as follows:
102, 105, 101, 103. July 18th was the
hottest day recorded since the weather
bureau was established II years ago.
The rainfall this month was about nor
maj.
But the real drought commenced in
August. Of the25 days so far recorded,
there has been for % days a maximum
temperature Of over 80, and the other
two days the maximum reached over
SO. Ieis has been the hottest and dry
est August recorded in II years. The
average normal temperature for this
month for the first q days has been
1876 but the mean temperature for
August, 1899, "a days, has been 81,
over 5 degrees in excess of the normal.
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