Evening star., 1915-04-04

THE greatest rainfall for the duration of
one year occurred at Neah Bay, Wash
ington, when 1409 inches of rain fell from
June, 1865, to June, 1866.
The greatest monthly rainfall ever known
happened during January, 1888, at Upper
Mattole, California, 4l.63 inches being the
recorded amount.
The record for twenty-four hours rain
fall took place at Alexandria, Louisiana,
when 21.4 inches fell on June Is, 1856.
A remarkable downpour of rain took
place in Washington, D. c., on July g.
1885, when 96 of an inch fell in the space
of six minutes. This was regular deluge
from severe thunderstorm.
THERE have been terrific gales in various
= places all over the world. In many in
stances it is of course impossible to obtain
any exact record of the velocity of the
wind; but the highest ever recorded was
in January, 1886, when the thermometer
registered IA miles an hour.
AT Cape Lookout, on the Atlantic Coast,
there is no telling what the record force of
| the wind might have been had not the ane-
mometer blown away after registering 1873
miles an hour. This fearful hurricane hit the
middle Atlantic Coast on August II, 1879.
In June, 1881, wind of l12 miles was
recorded on top of Pixies Peak, Colorado.
THE temperature at different parts of the
world has been known to take remark
able jumps, both up and down the scale; but
the highest ever known was really recorded
at Ouargla, Algeria. AT that place on
August 81, 1884, the Fahrenheit instru-
ment reached 1874 degrees in the shade.
| The lowest temperature ever known oc-
Cured at Werchogonisk, Siberia, on Jan
uary Is, 1885, the extremely low record
being 9O.4 degrees below zero. Other re-
markably low temperatures recorded in
Siberia are S0.5 degrees at Brascht- -Schi-
kowo, and 1871 at place called Marchm-
skoe. These towns are in the extreme
northern part of Siberia, and the one bless
ing the inhabitants of that region may be
thankful for is the fact that it is practically
always calm, and strong winds rarely occur.
Of course the ordinary mercury thermometer
would be of no use in such extreme cold
| weather; for mercury freezes at 80 below
zero (Fahrenheit). An alcohol tube is gen
orally used.
| The lowest temperature ever recorded in
the United States was 63.1 degrees at Pop
lar River, Montana, on January L. 1885.
More recently lumbermen and cattlemen
| in the Northwestern States have reported
lower temperatures tnan that; Dut they
cannot be relied upon as official, although
they may have been really recorded on
| first-class instruments
Fort Mcdowell Arizona, has the dis
tinction of holding the record of the greatest
heat that has ever been officially registered
in our own country. 1t was l19 degrees in
the shade at this place in June, 1888
| Yuma, Arizona, has frequently been
known to suffer from heat of nearly the
same intensity; in fact, it is quite common
in that region for the temperature to loaf
around the ITO mark in summer months
THE southern end of Florida and the
! southern California coast are the only
sections of the United States where snow
has never fallen.
At Punta Rasso, Florida, only hundred
miles north of Key West, snow fell for few
minutes on December /, 1876. Also at San
Diego, California, snow flurries occurred in
January, 1882.
However, it can safely be stated that
snow never stays on the ground south of
the thirty third parallel of latitude.
In the California mountains, at place
called Circo, in 1882, the snowfall for one
month (March) was 20 feet and IL inches
which is the record.
Snow falls quite often early in the fall
and late in the spring; but real summer