The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-02
THE SUMMER CLIMATE
OF SOUTH FLORIDA

So much has been said about the
winter climate of South Florida that
the merits of its summer climate
have not been sufficiently advertised.
In fact the idea is widely prevalent
that because we have such mild and
healthful temperature during the
winter months, for that very reason
the heat here during the summer
must be something awful and writ
ers unfamiliar with the facts have
grossly misrepresented ue in that
respect.
As matter of fact our summer
climate is something to brag on, and
because of the peculiar geography
of the State, jutting down as long
peninsular between two great oceans
and with no mountain ranges TO in
tercept their air currents, the nor
NAL summer temperature of this lat
itude is markedly modified and our
summer is less oppressive than in
States farther north Florida is
good summer as well as winter re-
sort, and as the facts become better
known we will get an increasing
number of visitors during the warm
months.
Hon. E. W. Barber, of Jackson,
Mich, editor of the Patriot of that
city, and one of the prominent jour
nalists of the State, is regular win
ter visitor to Crooked Lake, in Polk
county, and from one of his recent
letters back to his paper, we take
the following as to the summer eli
mate of this part of Florida
There is no gainsaying the fact
that South Florida has most salu-
brious climate. When it is swelter-
ing hot in northern cities it is moth
ing out of the ordinary here. PIP.
here better than he did those of
Michigan. The Florida summer, of
course, is longer, but the heat is not
killing. Sunstrokes are unknown
and heat prostrations are not in
cluded in complaints about Florida
1t gets warm here. No one will de-
ny this But when it is the warm
est in Florida, it is boiling hot in the
big cities of the North Marquette
Mich, has registered los degrees
as its hottest weather against 90 in
Tampa. People of the United States
have been slow to learn the actual
facts They have always thought that
because Florida is our southernmost
State that therefore it is necessarily
the hottest. But this is not he case.
This wonderful peninsula is thrust
out boldly for nearly five hundred
miles into the sea. On one side it
is washed by the unresting waves of
the great Gulf of Mexico, and on the
other it is bounded by the mighty
Atlantic. Cool and refreshing freez-
es from these two vast expanses of
salt water make this one of the most
pleasant BODYBUILDING lands in the
great sisterhood of States.
"0ne authority declares that the
character of Floridas soil is the
cause of its temperate climate He
points out that the sand is neither a
conductor nor an absorber of heat.
and that consequently the heat from
the MONDAY sun is not stored up
to worry people at night In many
of the less favored States the rock,
clay and other mineral matters, store
up this heat and give il out during
the night. And, in most of the
States, even those far to the north,
the heat is more intense and suffo-
eating because of the lack of ocean
breeZes.
But Florida climate is being bet
ter appreciated from year to year
Through January and up to the mid
die of February the weather was
perfect. The summers are no lon
ger feared. Whereas people once
feared to come South in the summer
months it is now not uncommon to
select Florida as convention State
in July, July and August. To its
seaside resorts people come from
States farther north, and they are
gaining in popularity as the years
come and 90 I"