Arizona republican., 1912-08-01
PHOENIX NOW
 SUMMER RESORT
July Weather for This Year and Last Indicates That There Has Been a Radi- cal Reformation of the Climate

Some of her critics have intimated
 that it was only part of a general
 boost program but Robert R. Briggs
 section director of the weather bureau
 and keeper of the Eskimos now comes
 forward with the proof MT. Briggs
 was engaged last evening in finishing
 up the totals for the month, calculat-
 ing averages, means, etc and some of
 his findings were decidedly interesting. The following is given on his author ity. The month of July, this year, was the coolest July of which the bureau has a record and the records run back for seventeen years. The mean tenn perature for the month was 85.4 de- grees. The next coolest July was last year with a monthly mean of S6.1 de- grees. The hottest July on record was in 1901 with a monthly mean of 92.9 degrees. The normal temperature for the month is 9O4 degrees. The month just closed was an even five degrees below normal for a mean average and 71s degrees below the highest monthly record These figures should establish authoritativeIy the rights of July 1912
 to the monthly championship and dem
 
 summer resort The reader is next
 introduced to day records for July also has earned some day prizes. The low est temperature ever recorded here Tn July was 63 degrees on July and of this year The next lowest tenn perature ever recorded was 65 degrees, that low point having been reached on several occasions in former years. The readers attention though is called tc the difference between the lowest tenn perature for a single moment during the day and the lowest mean tempera- ture for q whole day ,as quite dlfter- ent thing for while July and 9 thls year produced the lowest point ever, 63 degrees, the mean for the "A hours of those days was higher than July l and ? last year 1911, when the mean for the ,av was 72 and "A, respectively. These were the days of last years rec ord breaking rainfall, when the pre- cipitatio for the two days amounted to 5:49 inches more than five times the amount of the July normal and about 61 per cent of the normal an nual rainfall for Phoenix. It was not so cool at any one time as this year nor was l( 1S WdI III dt any IAiA'S N'o-'-@ the A hours
 But July 1912 gets second prize In this competition the next coolest days being July and July A this year each with a r1ean of 76 degrees. There was no rain on the 4th and only a SliSht shower on the 24th so the coolness was just good old natural temperature the sort summer resorts deal in, ana was not produced by shower baths l as it was the year before.
 The rest of the story deals with maximum temperatures. The mean ol the daily maximum temperatures TOT l July of 1912 was 97.7, the lowest ever recorded. The lowest mean maximum for any previous July was 91.9 m l91l and for fifteen years preceding 1911 the mean of the daily maximum tenn peratures exceeded 100 degrees eacn wear. the highest being that ot July 1901. 1862 degrees.
 If takes more than one swallow to make a summer of course, but when two sucn years occur in succession, in charming contrast with the previous conduct of the weather in these parts, there is reason to hope that the phen-
  represents an honest and determined effort on the part of the climate, at thorough and complete reformation. There is hope, for a convert who SUCKS through the second camp meeting, and Phoenix IS now licensed to claim some consideration as a summer resort. There may be more salubrious weather | in a few long established and well ad- vertised places, but with this good start Phoenix will give them run for | their money.
 The weather bureau requires it's ob- l servers to keep a special record or the number of days in each month when the temperature climbs above go. The reason for that is that in most countries 90 is hot. even killing hot, due to the humidity, while here any l thing below 100 arouses no special 1n- | terest nor occasions inconvenience. All l spring. summer and fall months jump 1 above 90. in fact are expected to or 1 this valley would not have it's won 1 derful fertility and luxuriance.
 observer Briggs has concluded that l if Phoenix is to be summer resort l 100 will be a good limit to put on tenn 1 | will keep .a table hereafter for local | use. showing the number of days in 1 each month in which the maximum | temperature exceeds 100; and another 1 showing the days above 105. He will ! also do his best to hold the weather l under these limits as much as possible 1 bv keeping it's record before it.
 | The average or normal number ol | days in July with maximum Of 1o0 1 degrees ,r more, according to the rec l ords of .he past seventeen years, IS A 1 This year there were but 1S such days | in July the best record ever made. Last July there were 15 such days. The l greatest humber was July 1901 when 1 there were 30 days in which the tenn 1 perature reached 100 or more. But l that was before the reformation, before Phoenix claimed to be summer re | sort.
 1 Following is the tabulated data for the north of July 1912, prepared by the observer.
 ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE. uJ;oloSf Qe 14fh. lowest 2gDS.