The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1900-02-01
THE ITALY OF AMERICA.
No Sunstrokes NorAny Debiltation-No Frosts
Earlier Than october and Later Than
April In Yakima.

Earlier Than October and Later Than
April In Yakima.
The following highly interesting and
instructive paper on Yakima climatic
conditions is worthy of preservation.
The article was prepared by r. D. Young,
one Of the well.to.do and practical far :
mers Of Sunnyside. It was read before
the Sunnyside Christian Cooperative
Society at the first annual celebration on
the 18th Of December last. The paper
will attract wide attention and be pro.
ductive Of great good to the community.
Sunnyside being about the center of the
county. for all practical observations the
data will apply generally to each section:
II want to disclaim all the RESPONSE.
billty for the selection Of the subject as
signed me. Why this subject of weather
is given me is best known by the society
or the committee on program. May be
1t was because take more than the usual
interest in noting the signs OF the sky;
partly because l cannot help it, and
partly as an assistant in planning my
daily work. May be it was because l
have lot of statistical figures, compiled
from my daily observations as United
States voluntary weather observer. II
this latter was the reason can as a mat
ter of fact produce lot of dry statistics.
II the former, based upon my reputa-
ton as weather crank, I must plead the
right to be excused, for my reputation
would be sadly endangered when it was
put to the test Of manufacturing weather
for every one.
Accepting the title OF weather crank
that has been kindly volunteered me,
with the utmost faith in the good inten.
tons OF the donors, feel it my duty to
protect such title, and consequently l
will not undertake to make weather, but
will revert to the past and give record
of what has been-weather that no man
had hand in shaping.
Webster defines the word weather as
1.-THE air or atmosphere with respect to
it's state as regards heat or cold, wetness
or dryness, clearness or cloudiness, or
any other meteorological phenomena"
Climate is defined as 1.-THE condition of a
place in relation to the various phenom.
ena of the atmosphere, as the temperate
ure, moisture, etc., especially as they eff
feet animal life or man." The terms
weather and climate, then, are so close ly
interviewer in the common understand.
ing that we will cling closely to our sub
iect, weather, and let our hearers draw
their own inference as to our climate.
First we will take up temperature. Tenn
perature is that condition with respect to
heat or cold, especially as indicated by
the sensation produced, or by the ther.
mometer. The figures l will give you
are taken from self.registering maximum
and minimum thermometers. Not hav-
ing the necessary instrument l cannot
give the figures as indicated by sensa-
ton. 1t is fact, however, that the SEN
sation of heat in this climate is no cri.
terion of the actual temperature for this
reason, the air is 80 free from moisture,
evaporation of the perspiration of the
body is SO rapid, the heat of the body
is carried off, producing cooling sensa-
ton. This is the reason, or one of the
chief reasons, there are no sun-strokes
here. Men and animals can work in the
sun in our hottest weather with no fear
of sunstroke or any facilitating feelin /.
The highest and lowest temperatures for
twelve months commencing with Octo-
Der, 1894 are as follows:
Highest Lowest
October 80 degrees. % degrees
November :. go degrees. Is degrees
December !. 40 degrees. -. 2 degrees
January, '95. 81 degrees. 49,. degrees
February -. ga degrees. 49,. IL degrees
March. .......7S degrees. II degrees