Putnam patriot., 1911-07-14

July with muggy oppressive weather too dry in some places and streaks of heavy rainfall in others" Hot, cloudy and murky, heavy showers, high wind, thunder and hail, disastrous storms with high winds, gales on the Lakes and the Atlantic, were among the specifications of this ill-boding prophet which seems to have been based upon similarity to a previous i'll conditioned midsummer, It may be hoped that the type became extinct as 1t has had no adequate successor, at least in J uly. It's rival of 1876 was just one fourth of a degree lower, viz: 74.29 degrees and
 was of precisely opposite character. It
 WAS warmer at midday, had cooler nights and mornings: Maximum tenn
 perature 92 degrees, minimum 56. For eighteen days the sun blazed with
 meridian fervor. Only one day was cloudy throughout, Day after day
 the mercury rose to so while on six
 days il reached or exceeded 90 degrees. In New Haven it rose higher than on the memorable June 25 26, 1864, viz: l03 degrees. Within an eleven-days
 period il marked five times 95 degrees
 and upwards. The hottest month pre-
 viously recorded was July, 1895, but
 according to Professor Loomis, the
 heat of 1876 was still greater, besides it
 was more intense and of longer contin.
 uance than had occurred in eighty-nine years. Dr. Caswell reported the heat
 as "without precedent This mean,
 74S at Providence, still stands at the
 head though higher points have been
 marked in later years. The Amherst
 record, beginning with 1886, gives the banner to 1876, I. e., 74.2 degrees, while it's record for 1887 was 73.7. Other hot Julys were IS66, 72.s2; 1870, 72.92; 1872,
 75.55; ISIS, 72.58.
 Our eoldeSt year, 1859, gave us our eoldest July, 64.S9 degrees, lowest point, H degrees, with frost in many places. This cold July resembled the historic 1881 with the same unfavor- able complication of .cold and dry.n The sun shone on twenty-five days; on nineteen mornings the mercury stood considerably below 50 degrees and twlce only attained so. other cold years were 1891, with mean of 65.21, extremes, S5 and g. 1895, mean 659l extremes, S4 and 50. Our latest July, 1901, achieved remarkable reputa- ton for heat and humidity. Record and heat breaking reports came from all parts Of the land. Our New Eng. land section r-Boston-reports: " "ENeeSstvely warm. At many sta uons the month was considered the warmest for many years and al others the warmest ever experieneed.n The mean for New England was 2.6 de- grees above the normal, and the high est mean-77.9 degrees-is credited to the peaceful city of Providence. Twelve stations in the district reached or exceeded loo degrees. In the face of such temperature it is somewhat hu- initiating 10 have 10 report mean only slightly above the half century l average, and even a little lower than 1 that of 1900. I was almost driven to | the conviction that my front door porch was the coolest spot in New England. My figures show the fol- lowing means, a. m. 66.45 degrees; ? P. m. T6.sS; g p. m. 6s.45; month 7o.2s. Maximum, as, on the 2d., minimum, aS on the 27th. The number of cloudy days had something to do with this di- minutive report, viz: l4 wholly or partly overcast days, and IT fair ones. There were only twelve days ou which the mercury exceeded 60 degrees, against twenty-three in 1876, and in lss7s On one day 1t rose to so, while, in 1876, six days surpas-