Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-16

Albuquerque and Spain mt One Ex-
treme and India at the other.
From the York sun.
Albuquerque. n. NJ. a town OF $500 pop
ulation. says it holds the record for the
greatest number of sunshiny days in the
year OF any town the American CONT
nent. Its records show a period OF three
years in which there were only two totally
cloudy days when the sun was not vislbl.
at some time between the hours Of rising
and setting, and there is official corrobora-
ton for this i'm the announcement of the
signal service that 1.-THE point of least an
nual rainfall in the United States is at Al
buquerque. n. M" Other cities having A
low record of rainfall are Port Said Egypt:
tyderabad. India; Lima. Peru: Madrid
Spain; Valparaiso. Chile; Oran. Morocco:
Majorica in the Mediterranean sea: Jeru-
salem, Cairo. Barcelona and Alexandria.
The heaviest recorded rainfal.s in the
united Kingdom have been inches a Ard
rishaig. Argyle. on December :. 1852. and
az inches at London on April u. 1873: whil-
"A inches of rain has fallen at BOMBAY ia
tWenty-tour hours. 30 at Genoa and .E3 al
Gibraltar. The Wettest place in England is
Seathw ate. where the average annual rain
fall Is l4J inches. and in the world Cherra-
punsl. IN southwestern Assam, where the
average for fifteen years is 493 inches and
where in 1891 the record rose to au5 inches
The rainfall of the united kingdom aver
ages IS inches yearly. on the European
continent - inches and in the United States
40 inches. taking the whole country
through
1t is customary to designate as n sunny
day one during which the sky is at no
time cloUded, though the exact lines Of
demarkation between sunny days, cloudy
days and rainy days are seldom 50 clearly
defined as TO exclude controversies on the
subject. The meteorological department nf
the United States government is conducted
on a more thorough. comprehensive method
than that of any European government
When the extent and diversity of the ter
ritory covered and the obstacles to accurate
Information are taken into account
1t is computed by statistcians that the
average annual rainfall in the United
States would. IL by some magical or mo-
chanical device all gathered into one place
exceed by four times the volume Of water
in Like Erie. which has an area of nearly
lu,oW square miles and an average depth
OF 200 feet The annual rainfall is com
puted to be in volume about the same as
all the water in the Mediterranean. and
any person caught I'm a storm without an
umbrella may. If of a philosophical dispo-
sltion, take this fact into account as eyi-
dence of the truth of the ancient saying
that nothing is really so bad but thar n
might be considerably worse
IN a controversy recently started in Fu-
rope as 70 the eminence of sunny Italy
sunny spain or sunny France" Il was
SHOWN mathematicalIy that Spain was the
country best entitled to the designation
sunny, for Spain is the country In which
IN all Europe the number of SUNNY DAYS is
largest in year, Italy 10 lowing and
france coming third. The rainfall In Sc
VINE is = inches year, or only IN inch
a year less than in the city of San Fran
cisco, an apparent discrepancy which Is ex
planned by the fact that when N rains
III seville 1t rains very hard. whereas
a shower.