Evening journal., 1903-08-31
COLDEST SUMMER
EVER RECORDED
Instead of Blistering Hot
Days Weather Suggested
Winter Woolens
THE CLOUDS WEPT INCESSANTLY

To Poor People Unable to Get Away
From the City the Cool Weather
Has Been a God seud-Hard on
Parks.
with the last day of the month. Au-
gust and the summer of 1908 pass into
history as the coldest recorded by the
Weather Bureau.
June reached the record of 1881. July
was just little bit off normal but not
enough TO keep its fellow months OF the
summer from taking the average tenn
perature a fraction below the figure
reached in 1897.
The average temperature during
June July and August, figuring the last
day Of the present month at the normal.
was 50 degrees. In 1897 the average
temperature was recorded at three
quarters of a degree higher The aver
age temperature during August has
been 69.5 degrees, nearly two degrees
lower than the lowest mark the month
ever reached. In 1897 and eight times
previous to that year the average tenn
perature for August was recorded as
Il degrees
Mariners in Doubt.
Mariners of the fashioned school
have looked askance at the peculiar
conduct of the elements during the last
thirty days. The noreasters caused
them no alarm, but their frequency and
depressing effect on the mercury LED
the more supersttious to fear that the
sun somehow had slipped a cog, and
descended on the equator days before
its time, and sent bounding over the
universe myriad equinoctial storms.
The sun. however. has been running on
schedule time. August has simply suf
fered little more than usual. owing
TO the arrival of a few extra nor'east-
ers, combined with sweeping Hudson
Bay winds.
Incalculable suffering has been saved
to the closely housed inhabitants. Ex-
cept during a few hot spells when tn,
temperature took a spasmodic flight
the houses have been habitubie Bd
what has been a Godsend to the pooi
has fallen like a century's woe on tbs
shoulders of the owners Of hotels an,
amusements at the beaches.
The Summers Record.
The summer Of 1903 began with
dripping wet June The mean temper
ature of that month was 64.5 degrees
below the normal. 1t rained on seven
teen days of the month, and at the enc
the downfall footed up 7.42 inches. tn,
normal being 31s The humidity wa.
81 per cent. June was a fraction cooler
than May.
July was practically normal. The
mean temperature was "A, half a degree
above the normal It. was in July thai
several hot spells of short duration senl
the temperature to a ripping height
This saved the month from equallinl
the record of June. The rainfall during
July was light by comparison, being
1923.
August was ushered in in a norma
way, but soon began to cut capers will
its former records Instead of the blis
tering and sweltering hot days whicl
had marked its previous existence. da,
after day came and went with the tenn
| perature standing still at a mark tina
sometimes suggested winter woolens
In one respect at least August was tru
to its traditions as being the month o.
least fluctuation. Beginning with th'
twenty-second day rain began to de-
scend, and no day thereafter escape,
a wetting. The clouds. weeping inees
sanity during the latter days, have lit
orally drowned the month out
The weather man is making M
promises for September. With the ele
ments running clearly off form" h
simply hopes that September viii be
have according to his dope