The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-04
JUNE'S RECORD IS
DARK AND DISMAL
ONLY -FOUR CLEAR DAYS BLESSED
THE MONTH.
Rainy Weather Prevailed but Total Pre-
cipitation Falls Below Average by
Nearly an Inch Temperature Falls
Trife Below Mean for Fifteen Years
Summary for Last Week.

Had the poet sung, "What Is 80 rare
as a clear day in June it would have
been the best Of circumstantial evidence
that he was a visitor in Minneapolis
thru June, 1906. According to the June
summary, issued from the local weather
office today, the sun shone from sunrise
to sunset only four days last month.
Of the remaining twenty-six days,
eleven were partly coudy and fifteen
were cloudy without any qualification.
Not So Bad After All.
With all it's dismal days June, 1906,
was a false alarm. Only 2.96 inches
Of rain fell in the twenty.six cloudy
DAYS. Last year I'll inches Of rain
fell in June, and out of fifteen Junes,
which are included in the table at
tached to the summary, eight had more
rainfall than the last. The mean pre-
cipitation for fifteen years, SOL inches,
lis nearly an inch in excess Of that of
the gloomy month last entered on the
register. go. .g}4
In temperature last ponth stood about
midway between the hottest and cold
est Junes on the weatherman g ledger
Its mean temperature was sc degrees
| teen years. Its warmest day was the
2Sth, with 90 degrees, and Its coolest
the I'd, with 40 degrees. . 80
ID. Last Weeks Weather.
Summarizing the weather for the last
week, T. s. Outram, the section director
says: ,-..-....#.
Cloudy weather prevailed during thu
week, tho there were days, or parts o.
days, in the middle Of the week, in part:
Of the state, when the sky was only part
ly overcast Showers occurred fire
quently, there having been no twenty
four-h hour period during the week withou
rain in some part Of, the state; on tn,
morning of the 26th there had beer
twenty four-hour rains in all parts of thu
state; on the morning Of the 27th Their
had been general rains, except in small
area In the central west; on the morn
ing of the 26th there had been rains ii
the northwestern half Of the state an
in the extreme southeast; on the mornin
Of the 10Th in nearly all portions; on tn
morning of the 30th in the extrem
southeast only, and on the morning o
the LIST and I'd in most parts Of the state
The heaviest twenty four-hour rainfall
were as follows 1903 inches at Whine
bago on the 25th, 1.023 at ST. Paul on tn
26th, Ito at Duluth on the Goth, and 1.2
at Halstad on the@2d. 49, ..."
At local offices Of the weather burea,
the daily average temperature was some
what below the normal on the r25th an
26th, and in western portions on the 27t
and 30th as we'll, but the middle Of tn
week was warm, the excess Of tempera
! ture over the normal being from six
eight degrees. On the 25th and 26th tn
maximum, or day., temperatures wer
from 70 to 80 degrees in central an
southern portions, and below 10 degree
in northern portions; on the 9th the
were above 80 degrees In central an
southern portions, and on the 2sth, tn
warnest day of the week. they were
degrees, or slightly Cher, in the souti
ern third OF the state; during the rest
the week they were from 70sto 80 az
grees. The minimum, or night, tempers
lures were from 50 toa6o degrees in MOS
portions on the 18th, 9th LIST and 9
+ and from so to 10 degrees on the 2St
and goth. The water level IN the rive1
: has been nearly stationary in southe1
, portions while in the upper Mississip
1t has risen. :35g FIX In &Ets