Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-08-01

Temperature Took Big Bounds Up
And Down In July.
FIFTEEN DAYS OF NIGHTMARE.
When Temperature Ranged From l
To ii Degrees Above The Normal

Today, August ! the eighth month
of the calendar year is ushered in,
and il is with no sad feelings of re-
gret that humanity bids farewell to
July, month long to be remembered.
While the memory of the fifteen
days in July when the temperature
ranged from one to eleven degrees
above the normal has caused many
Annapolitans to consider the month
much warmer than it should have been,
yet the temperature for the latter part
of the month had been from one to six
degrees below the normal, making the
average for the month but two de-
grees above the mean of n degrees.
The month has been one Of extremes
as summer weather goes. On the
second day of July the thermometer
jumped into the nineties and consis-
tently held that position until the
10th, when it dropped to six degrees
below the normal, and remained below
its average height up to the 2Sth,
with the exception of two days, when
the temperature was just normal.
The recollection of those eleven
days in the first half of the month will
linger long in the memory of the city.
ProstratiOn after prostration oc-
Cured in the days around July 9th,
when the weather mans thermometer
said it was 90 degrees and the less
conservative thermometers registered
over 100 degrees in some sections of
the city. The sweItering weather of
the Fourth will not be forgotten by
those who watched the triumphal pro-
cession of Lord Baltimore and Mis-
tress Margaret Brent through the
streets of Baltimore
The cool spell of ten days which
ended Saturday, when the tempera-
ture climbed back above the normal.
are all that kept July from being a
record-breaker With the tempera-
ture in the sixties and seventies, An
napolis was a happy city after the
time Of parching sunshine.
Taking all the days of the month,
the average temperature, night and
day, was a little over 70 degrees-not
so bad when one remembers that the
normal is TIA degrees. If things
move along smoothly, the weather in
August should be cooler, as the mean
temperature for that month is 75.1 de-
Crees.
The rainfall in July was .72 inches
less than it should have been. While
the average rainfall for the month is
4.S2 inches, in the six days that il
rained in July but 3.52 inches fell on
Annapolis. There were three other
days when there was a trace of rain,
but not enough to be measured. Most
of the rain fell on July IL. when
there was a three-hour downpour.
Unless the fates decide to make up
for their APPARENT neglect, there will
be even less rain in August, as the
average for that month is 4.21 inches.
as compared with 4.S2 for July.
Only the weather man can explain
why there were abundant showers all
around Annapolis in the latter part of
the month which stunned the city.
A summary of the month is: Low
humidity; for fifteen' days the tenn
perature ranged from to IL dergees
above the normal Of II degrees; for
eleven days it was below the normal;
two days it was normal, and in the
last two days it has climbed about 6
degrees above the normal; the rainfall
was .72 inches below the normal of
4.S2 inches; winds were moderate
through the month, coming mostly
from the south and east.