La Junta tribune., 1915-07-03
WEATHER FOR JUNE.
Our Oldest 1nhabitaAt Never Saw
Anything Like Il Before-Eain,
Rain. Rain, and Hall.
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Rain, Rain, and Hall.
June did not live up TO its reputa-
ton for fair days and rare days. In.
stead of the old slogan What is 80
rare as day In June?" It ought to
be What Is so rare as 4 day on which
1t does not either rain or hail! The
changing. tickle weather-when 1t
rains. then shines. then halls some
more. has been q revelation even to
the Oldest inhabitant-not only in
Colorado. but In bleeding Kansas.
Oklahoma and most of the other
states OF the union. Climatic condi-
tiOns are changing all over the earth
including Colorado, and the only
people who seem to be elated over the
fact are the dry farmers in Colorado.
They may get theirs later-that Is.
most OF the old timers say they will.
and they ought to know.
June has sure been q wonderful
month for changing weather condi-
tons. We have had almost every
brand Of It known to the calendar
sunshine and rain. hail and frost
everything. save ice and snow.
On sixteen days out OF the thirty
days in June we had some rain. on
one night In particular-last Monday
night, in order to be definite-we
had much rain. On that particular
night It rained In bucketsfuli-sev-
eral OF them. all turned bottomsids
upwards and all coming down at
once. Our local weather observer
says II rained ninety-two one -hund-
reths OF an inch In less than fifteen
minutes-and most everybody that
attended the Chau.auqua that even
Ing will believe him-especially Sid
ney Landon. the impersonator. who
was to appear that evening. as he was
drowned out completely. The only
impersonation that appeared that ev-
ening was that OF u little rivulet run
ming over the stage. All OF the
streets OF La Junta were booming
rivers. which disappeared almost as
suddenly as they came. For the
twenty-four hour period OF Monday
Il rained ninety and nine one-hund-
reths Of an inch-only seven one
hundrcths OF an inch more than for
the fifteen minute period. For the
thirty day period OF June Il rained
?.76 inches-fifty-six one hundrcths
OF an inch more than for the same
month last year.
There were five hail storms dur
ing the month Of June. and some Of
the garden truck growers Of North La
Junta received the benefit Of as many
OF three Of them-and still lived 10
tell the tale. On the I'd. ?3d and
3oth the fall Of hail was light. aud
did no particular damage. but on the
I'd and :sth Il was heavy aud = great
deal Of damage was done--in isolated
cases-ths hall belt being confined
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the crops were practically wiped out
Of existence.
During the month there were sew
enteeu clear days. twelve partly
cloudy. and one wholly cloudy day
very poor record for sunny Colorado.
The highest temperature recorded
during the month was .? degrees aud
the lowest 3s degrees and this hap
pened on the ID. ID and 7th. There
was . light frost also on the 7th.
The Tribune has provided our local
weather observing station with . SELF
recording maximum and minimum
thermometer. 10 that In the future
our weather report will have the
maximum and minimum temperature
for each day In the year.
The record for each day In the
month - recorded BY 9. II. Miller. Of
North Il Junta. our local weather
observer. whose observations ere ta-
ken at 9 o'clock in the svening. II -
fo1lova.