The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-30
A SUMMER OF MEANS
Weather Since May Has Been Of
Various Sorts, but Not of
Extremes.
It Has Been Warm and Cool, Wet
and Dry, Windy and Calm
by Turns.

II medium things are best, as Confucius
pointed out in his Doctrine of the Mean"
some years ago, then the current summer
has been successful. The management
need make no apologies. They have pro-
vided, since the Minneapolis May Queen
danced with goose-feshed toes, a season
that upon the whole, has been moderate,
equable pleasant for mankind and not nu-
comfortable for crops.
May began with frost. Since then, how
ever, the summer has been only slightly
cooler than the average. Chilly days have
been rare, yet only once has the mercury
risen higher than S6 degrees. Altho the
season has bee Wetter than its twelve pre-
decessors on the records Of the local
weather bureau, this increase of moisture
SO far has been unirnportant. =. 49,.
Uncommon features Of the summer have
been confined to few sudden fits Of &C.
centricity. More rain fell within an hour
last Monday. for example, than ever be-
fore within an equal time. But it's the
wind naturally-see the WIS, wind wheat,
wife, woman, whisky, widow, ETC.. that
has proved most whimsical. During sew.
eral minutes Of this summer Minneapolis
has felt the most violent gales recorded
since the thermometer began its story here
| in 1896. A velocity approXimatinS mile
| a minute has been attained by the wind
| this month on no less than three occa-
sions. July 2 a northeast wind blew So
|
sixty mile gallo ragged from the northwest
for ten minutes. And last Monday MORN
in Southeast Minneapolis small whirl-
wind blew down poles and walls at an esti-
mated velocity of 65 or 70 miles an hour.
The hottest day last May-the 22d-
| brought a temperature Of 83 degrees.
May l gave the minimum temperature of
the month, 81 degrees. The mean for
| MAY was So degrees or six-tenths Of one
| degree above the mean Of the same month
| during thirteen years. Twice the Their
morneter marked more than 80 and three
times less than 40. ~, Z =.
In June the hottest afternoon was that
| of the 2Sth, with record Of SIS degrees.
Forty degrees was the coolest tempera-
| tnre. The monthly mean, IS degrees,
was Is degrees below the mean for thir-
teen years. The mercury rose once. as
mentioned, to IS, and four times above
SO. Temperatures under SO were indicated
thrice
This month the 7th was the hottest day
but the comparatively moderate maxi.
mum was 90 degrees. Eighty-six has
been the highest record on two other
days. The coolest morning has given g
minimum no lower than So. For twenty
, eight days July has shown a mean tenn
t persture Of TO- which is 2 degrees les:
{ than the July mean since 1891.
The total precipitation for three month:
has been ~ II inches against the aver
age Of 1925 inches. Last May brough
. 4.40 inches of rain; June dropped to 10
inches; July. up to the Goth, has beer
wet we'll with 1929 inches. The averag
precipitation for the same months in TIL
r past has been 3.32 inches, $40 and Al
l inches respectively. July was flooded il
S 1892 with nearly one foot Of rain, an
e parched, two years later, with one-fift
of one inch Of heavy dew.