Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22
CLIMATE OF
LOS ANGELES
UNSURPASSED
BEST IN THE WIDE WORLD AND
OUR CHIEF ASSET
NO COLD, NO SNOW, NO Dis
COMFORT
A Rainy Season, but No Winter.
Tropical Plants Thrive Al
Through the
Year

Our climate Is our chief asset-let this
be frankly admitted. 1t has been SO I'M
the past, and there is no danger that
it will be taken from us. We no longer
hear the envious sneer that we have
nothing but climate and tourists. The
climate has brought the tourists; the
two together have made our city grow
more rapidly in permanent population
than any other American city. The COM
bination has given us the most deeir-
able among the leisure and the working
classes. and once the nucleus was estab-
lished all other good things came.
The situation is very plain and simpIes
Los Angeles offers all other desirable
conditions, in the best climate in the
world. One city may excel another in
certain things; its rivals have their own
points of superiority; but in Los Angeles
all these things are combined, because
this city draws to itself the best there
is in every city-citizenship, brains, en-
ergy, public spirit, enterprise; and with
all these, the glorious climate of south-
ern California, the Land of Sunshine
No wonder 1t is unmatchable.
Here snow and ice are unknown; mere
there is no rain from May to October;
here the days are comfortable in summer
and the nights are cool; here flowers
bloom in winter, as in other seasons OF
the year; here there Is an entire abb
sence of the humidity which makes the
/ heated term terror and curse in most
eastern cities.a
There is no winter in Southern CALI
fornia. There is a rainy season so-calleds
but let no one hug the unpleasant de-
lusion that it rains all the time in the
rainy season.
A regular California rain lasts from
one to three days, then there is an in
terval Of warmth and sunshine, lasting
perhaps one week or two or even three,
according to the earliness or lateness Of
the season.
Life Rerewer
The winter rains turn vegetation from
the dead brown of summer to living
green; renewed life comes to everything.
As spring comes on the flowers are at
their best; the spring harvest smiles
upon the husbandman.
Southern California is a climatic law
unto itself Bordering on the ocean IL
is warmed by the Japan current and
cooled by the southwestern trade windss
it is sheltered from the desert by ranges
of high mountains, yet the desert shields
it from frost and ice and snow.
The climate is stable-there are not the
great and rapid variations of tempera-
| ture that form such a trying feature OF
eastern climates Cyclones and tornadoes
are unknown. Thunder storms are ex-
| tremely rare.> Open air life Is possible
all the year around.
| DR.. Walter Llndley has this to say re-
garding the influence of the Southern
| California climate on invalids:
'gThe cases which may hope for bepefit
! by coming to Southern California are,
| first and foremost, the feeble and invalid
| from whatever cause; those who find the
drain uponDVitality in harsh climate too
great for them; who have need TO spend
a considerable portion of each day in the
open air, yet who in their own climate
are prevented from so doing by the in
clemency of the weather; those who need
clear skies and sunshine. to whom the
refreshing sleep of cool, bracing night
is necessity after the warmth of the
summer day; those to whose enfeebled
digestion or to whose capricious appetites
a market stocked with fresh vegetables,
| fruits and berries, every month in the
year. is of Importance.
For such and for all who are suffering
| from the nervous prostrations Of over
work there is probably no better climate
| to be found 1t is climate in which the
drain upon vitality is, with any proper
manner of living, less than the gain.
The following table shows the average
maximum and minimum temperatures in
Los Angeles for the twenty years from
1880 to 1900, the figures being furnished by
the weather bureau of the United Statess