The San Francisco call., 1904-06-08
A FULL WEATHER REPORT.

service is to supply to the press of this State full
/ port OF the weather covering all leading Eastern
points This will give people opportunity to
compare temperatures and some other conditions IN all
parts of the country with our own.
One element however, lacking in these reports With
out knowledge of the degree of humidity it is not posi-
to estimate correctly the effects of temperature For
instance, last Monday the maximum temperature IN
Boston was 49, New York SO, Washington co. New Or
leans 90 In Fresno the day it 100. but that
was felt in the San Joaquin Valley than the
lower temperatures East because in the valley there is
low humidity and heat and cold less felt in dry air
The minimum a Fresno CO. which means cool
night restul sleep while the temperature East
means swelter all night because the air is full of mois
That moisture the OF retaining and dtus-
ing heat We all know how the heat declines in this
State away from the moisture of the coast as the
down and Caornians familiar with the GOODNESS
OF the shade When the air is full of moisture the heat
retained night and the shade there is felt
the effect of hot
Eastern people are always astonshed in San Francisco
by seeing ladies' in midsummer, promenading the
shady side of the in fur garments but they
that the shade cool 1t not well here, the
least, have shade around houses while in the
sought for the slight protection from the heat
which it furnishes All of this that reports
Of temperature from different California points do
tell the whole story of climate. That climate differs
with different degrees of humidity and the
quite different from the dry interior where work
without inconvenience temperature exceeding 100 be-
dry. That dryness has important relation
health. Where the and dry air rapidly oxdize and
there less chance for germ cul-
ture and less liability disease The cool nights give
and recuperaton from the fagues of the day. and
there is of that exhaustion which the forerunner
OF sunstroke, an aiment unknown in California
While the publication of full weather report for the
whole country here will be gratifying to Caornians,
after all they much interested in the official
publication by the weather service of full California
report the Eastern press Cafornans in the East
nexpressbly annoyed by the omission of this State from
those daily reports. AS rule the daily report stops at
Salt Lake City, and the weather service unaware
that there is any country climate temperatdreAny
farther west
Since General Chipman made it plain that eli
material of the greatest value our people
still anxious that it be recognized officially by
Eastern publication of reports from this State People
who carry back individual reports of our sootn-
ing and equable weather. and those who the tale
naturally the daily weather reports confirm
and find them blank far as we are concerned Salt
Lake Denver. and perhaps Arizona and New Mex
points reported, but California apparently off
the weather map entirely This Should be amended The
weather service is important branch of the public
service and all parts of the country entitled the
information it collects and distributes
AS far Eastern reports concerned they are the
daily record of daily distress discomfort of griIlng
heat dangerous cold according the season. OF cy-
clones that rage like pestlence and of untimey floods
that sweep away crops and the soil in which they grow
The California report story of daily felicity of equa-
bic climate of days full of glory and nights restful and
elysian; of conditions that foster the fruitful
ness of fields and the beauty and perfume of our
flowers. The contrast is sharp and impressive and for
what they 20 sustain the weather service our
of hv havin
MIA put at large in the official reports published in the
Eastern press.
The vast number of Eastern people who to visit
this will back the request for this pubica-
ton. When they return home endure its climatic dis
comforts they will turn the California weather reports
Dives turned to the cool quarters of Lazarus longing
for even drop of that to wet his whistle