The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-13
TEMPERATURES

The Hawaiian has no word for "weath
er" For warm and cold. wet and dry
fair and rainy. and in general for the
visible phenomena OF the world he ha:
full nomenclature: but the generic
word a coinage of more variable eli
mates than his own. he does not need,
The Hawaiian climate, in a word, is the
only trop,c climate that is never oppres-
siveIy hot. It's equabiliry at comfortable
Temperatures and its absolute exemption
from tornadoes and cyclones distinguish
1T from all other climates of which We
have record. not only from Continental
climates. like those OF California and our
Southern States, but also from those of
other islands: as from Jamaica and the
Bermudas with their great range of tenn
peratures. from Samoa and Tahiti. with
their excessive heat and liability to cy-
= clones. and from the Sundas and the
Philippines, with their terrible typhoons.
where for half the year the mercury new
goes as low as 50 degrees f. Let us
compare Teneriffe in the Canaries Qati-
tude % degrees 30 minutes north) and
Madeira latitude 81 degrees 40 minutes
north). the best of the Atlantic island
climates. (See Book i. PIP. 121 and 1873.
In Teneriffe there are great eQuability
and dryness; at Santa Cruz the January f,
mean is 66 degrees F.. the July from IS
degrees to ~ degrees F.: at Orotaya. the
means for January and July are GIG de- |
grees and 76.6 degrees F. respectively; |
but the country suffers from the leste. or |
hot east and southeast winds from the |
Sahara: as does likewise Madeira, I'm |
spite of temperatures almost as equable |
lou ffurn hal fl,o
are Ga degrees F. in winter. "A degrees f.
in summer, and IS degrees F. for the |
year, with the extremes of 90 degrees F.,
and under harmattan, or Sahara wind.
of 30 degrees F. at the upper end of the
scale At st. Anna the extremes of forty 1
years are reported as from 90 degrees to
50 degrees F.. but this range probably
does not take account of the harmattan
wind. While, therefore. these climates
rival the Hawaiian in equability and out
do 1t in dryness, yet they cannot claim
superiority On other points and the same
may be said of the Azores. CSee Book
j. p. 125) At FayaI latitude IS degrees
north, the winter mean is about IS de-
grees F., that of July. 20 degrees F.; of
the year. 62 degrees F., with daily va
ration of seldom more than 6 degrees
F.: but in winter 1.-The winds are violent
and searching, and the houses are adapt
ed only to those in rugged health" (Ben-
jamfn)-
Throughout the Hawaiian group 'the
record of the thermometer is one of mar
Vicious equability" At Honolulu the av-
erage daily range is 10 degrees F.: in 1890 '
1t was IL degrees T. for the year. The c
extremes OF recorded temperature in the i
shade are 81 degrees and g degrees F.
The minimum Is reached at about a 7
m. the maximum at about / p. m. The G
monthly averages r1nge from about 81 t
degrees to 20 degrees F.; for January i
from GO degrees TO II degrees F.: for July
and August, IS degrees and 20 degrees !
F. The minimum OF different winters t
ranges from SIS degrees to 60 degrees f. T
The monthly and yearly averages at t
Honolulu are given In the following Ia C
be: |,
MONTHLY AND, YEARLY AVERAGES c
FAHRENHEIT, AT HONOLU