The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-25
YESTERDAY WAS
A SCORCHER
CAIRO CHILLED UNDER A TEN
PERATuRE or TWENTY-FIVE
DEGREES AND A FRAc-
TON
HIGH TEMPERATURES
Recorded at Weather Bureau in Cairo
Since 1S72--Humidity Was IL
Degrees at 7 p. M. Last
Evening.

Through the courtesy OF Wea hel
observer Cunningham and Assistant
observer w e Barron, The Bulle
tin Is enabled to present 10 its readers
the following table of Maximum tenn
.pelatures as recorded since the es-
Enlistment OF the weather bureau in
Cairo ii 1872
Maximum Temperatures
1872 80 degrees. August %, 20.
1875 SO Cegrees. ,illy Is.
1874 -1ol deg.ees, August 10, II,
T. II.
1878 90 degrees, July 10,
1s7G9i degrees. July 10
1915 degrees. July Is.
1878 sc degrees, July ..
1879 90 degrees, July 10, ! /.
lSS0--9i degrees. July a. Is.
1881 1903 degrees, August 10.
1882 "a degrees. June rs
1859 degrees. August %.
1884 % degrees. June %, July !
1885, 90 degrees. July 80
1SS6-s7 degrees, August IL,
1887 9s degrees, July 30.
1883 " degrees. August 3
1883 81 degrees. July ls
1890 90 degrees. June 81. :
tS9i-9S degrees. June s
1892 a degrees. July %.
1895 % degrees, July IS.
1894 100 degrees. August -.
1875 -95 degrees, June r.
1896 rs degrees, July 30
1897 IS degrees. July 81.
1898 "a degrees. July 2.
ls99--97 degrees. September 6.
1000 ~ degrees. August ~
1901 100 degrees. July ~
1902 gS degrees. Augtst y.
1905 g3 3eEfecs, July IT.
1901 80 degrees, August -.
1905 81 degrees, June Is.
lgnG--s2 degrees, June %
The matter OF heat as felt By the
Individual is largely matter oi
humidity prevailing at be ime the
high temperatures are reached. Ae-
to the instruments in the
,ffiee of the weather bureau last
evening at Z o'clock vixen the tenn
perature was 50 degrees the humidity
was 10 per cent Had II been me
same with the temperature at g de-
srees few persons could have SUR
vlyea the heat. If this per cent had
occurred when the temperature was
y degrees during The afternoon there
sould nave been many plostrations
reported.
According 10 an authority the
moisture in the atmosphere cuts a
very important part in the intensity
Il the heat. The atmosphere is sup
sosed to take up 100 per cent Of mois-
.uie of humidity. but If il reached that
,o:nt and the temperature at SO or
100. not a soul in Cairo could survive
he combination. But nature has
made wonderful provision for man IN
his respect. AID has hedged him
,hout with protecting elements On
he sea coast where the humidity y
very great. the cool breezes from the
ocean keep the temperature down.
This is especially true OF The Paeife
coast The conditions are not so faY-
,rabIe on The eastern coast This Is
why there are 80 many more prostra-
lions In New York than in San Fran
cisco.
When one perspres il is quickly
svaporated. if the atmosphere is not
too heavily charged with moisture al
ready This evaporation creates the
cooling effect which one feels when
breeze strikes the moist skin If the
os2here Is alredy too full of hui
mildly 10 take up the perspiration by
the suffering from heat
is intense. and causes prosirations or
gunstroke. Humility, in other words,
a-cs the real temperature which the
body must stand.
4 person in a cioscl room yestcr-
day would perhaps have suffered some
thing like the full temperature. while
If he had been out in the open and re-
ceivcd a breeze the evaporation woul
have been 50 much greater that he
would have thought he was getting
cut Of a stove into a refrigerator. =
es DEGREES AT MEMPHIS.