Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-26
HOTTEST, DRIEsT AND LONGEST
SEASON IN TEN YEARS HAS
JUST COME TO CLOSE.
WEATHER STATISTICS
Recorder Of Local Weather Bureau
DiscIoses Interesting Facts Regard
lns Past Four Months-5ut
Very Little Rain.

The summer that has just beer
brought to q close by the arrival Of
the chilling weather and cool rains
has been q most peculiar one and has
established several records, none o.
which, however, are in sympathy with
the desires of the people of Ottumws
and vicinity. In word, 1t was the
driest, hottest and longest summer
that has been experienced for several
years. The four months past have
also been peculiar ones when the
climatic condition Of this section Of
the country is taken into considera
tion. One very noticeable peculiarly
Is the sudden change. This morning
It was only fifty degrees. One week
ago ninety-eight was registered.
June Was the Hottest.
Primarily, the intense heat came
upon the city earlier than usual, caus
Ing an early summer. This is evi
henced by the weather record com
piled by Volunteer Observer Charles
w. Sloan. According to his statistics
which reach back for ten years, the
month Of May was the hottest on rec
ord. From the first day the mercury
began to rise, lowering just below
ninety degree mark, until on May 10, 1t
Z crawled over the boundary into what
Is called warm weather and registered
ninety-three degrees. From that time
on it was continually stepping over the
ninety mark but always lowered close
ly around it. May ~ the merucry
pushed its way within two degrees OF
one hundred, and as far back as the
weather records go, it was never
equaled. June found it still on the
rise and on the sixth day OF the month
before the summer under ordinary
circumstances would have hardly OPEN
ed, the little hair of fluid stole up to
10Th degrees. Here it stood for some
time, never higher but several times
few degrees lower. July, the TEN.
perature crawled up another one-half
degree, and 1t seemed to be warn
Ing signal The second day Of the
month found Old Sol driving it four
degrees higher, to 106. The third day
1t registered 10S and the fourth. 1O7.
Then the record was made that has
not beer. Preached by two degrees in
ten years past. Nine degrees above
The one hundred mark was the result
Of hspAditys efforts. During the 70
mainder Of the month and a good por-
ton OF August the hundred mark was
. very frequent haunt of mercury and
when he departed, 1t was not far and
but for q day or two 1t was the
hottest and longest summer inflicted
upon Ottumwa for ten years.
A Dearth Of Rain.
Ottumwa suffered from another
source, the drouth. According to the
weather record only 1.64 inches of rain
fell from the first day of June until
September l. This came in six rains,
five of which can hardly be called
showers. The heaviest of these five
was one-ffteenth of an inch. The
last precipitation was 1.O7 inches.
Coming in traces, as they were, their
value was practically nothing. Previ-
GUS to September 6 two traces of rain
were recorded but on that date 81 OF
an inch fell. So far this month eight
rains have been recorded in ,Ottumwa
making 327 inches. In the first
twenty days Of September almosa three
times as much precipitation has beeen
registered as during the entire sum-
mer