The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09
YEAR 1907 SHOWS
 QUEER WEATHER RECORD
In Nine Months New Haven Has Failed to Receive Ten Inches Rainfall, Nor
 mally Due.
WHAT IS RECORD FALL?
It is Eighteen Years Since New Haven Was Soaked in 17.08 Inches of
 Water.

Backed by the authority of the local office of the weather bureau, interest ing facts have been discovered in the meteorological records, or to put it briefly, the rain and wind have cut some high jinks in New Haven.
 Since last Monday the rainfall to Thursday afternoon amounted to 1,46 inches. The rain was of the sort to benefit the farmers in way to do the most good, and was welcome. This was the first good rain since June SO
 In that time up to the first of the month there has been only 2.S1 inches of rainfall, whereas New Haven should have had 9.77 inches. This is figured by the normal record tabulated for thirty years, and the average taken
 The rainfall since January has been 1O.54 inches less than should be, Dur ing this time April, May and June have been a little ahead of the normal but July and August have fallen far below. The remarkable coincidence is that the temperature has not been much out of the ordinary.
 The record. of the least rain was es- tablished in the month of August, 1882, when a quarter of an inch, or to be exact, ,26 inches. sprinkled the burned and parched mother earth. The most rain that ever dropped It's crystal way from above in August was in 1874, when the maximum, 1299, was established.
 This year August has recorded 1.21 inches, which is a gain compared with last years 1.13.
 July holds the record for terrific downpours and steady plush and pat ter of falling waters. Tn July, 1SS9, the local weather bureau measured a total off 0S inches rainfall At this rate in a few months citizens would go through the Venetian streets of the Elm City in gondolas.
 The wind seldom veers to such ex- tren]es in this locality but when it climbs from thfrty and forty miles up to sixty miles an hour it is literally going some" This sixty miles speed was recorded September 16, 1903 Three years ago on the twenty-frst of October the wind was whistling up Chapel street in gale of sixty-two miles every sixty minutes. The pump handles on the green undoubtedly stood covering dog fashion shivering in the teeth of the blast. The. passer- by caught out such an unfortunate day was glad to grab the pump handle for safety. This day was the record for New Haven.
 A mile minute is high wind vsloo- lty, but off Nantucket seventy miles an hour is of no uncommon incident. All along the coast it is possible in the clean sweep of the gale to run into powerful winds.
 The notable instance was the Calves | ton disaster in August, 1851. The deI- licate instrument. registering the winds velocity could no longer stand the strain when seventy-two miles an hour was recorded. But conservative esti- nation placed the high rate near 100 miles. Under such conditions build ings and brealkwaters go down like glass before the prairie fire.
 Mystery surrounds the action of the wind. It is said that several theo- ries have been offered to explain the occurrence of high winds, but no one explanation can be relied upon. It is known that high and low pressure of atmosphere due to atmospheric condi- tions start currents of air flowing in certain directions, but the solution of the exact relation of parts is unknown to science,