The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-24
FRANCE WEATHER
MeteOrOlOgist Flora Compares
1t With the Kansas Brand.
Below Zero Temperatures Are
Rare sOver There"
SUMMERS ARE NOT SULTRY
100 in the Shade Is Something
Seldom Experienced.
Rainfall Different From That
in This State.

Before long now the olive drab sons
of Kansas will be going overseas in
the wake of the Stars and Stripes.
Knowing this Meteorologist Flora of
the Topeka office. of the United states
weather bureau has prepared a state
ment on the relative weather condt-
tons in France and in Kansas. In his
description Flora covers the gamut Of
weather conditions. rainfall. temperI-
ture and winter and summer condi-
tons, Meteorologist F'lora's COMPARE
son says:
The boys who go from Kansas 20
Somewhere in France will find quite
a different climate from what they
are used to at home. They VIII miss
the cold climate waves that come
sweeping across the prairies and the
scorching hot weather they have been
used to in July and August. Instead,
they will find a climate more like that
of Sea tile
ITO begin with even the southern
part of France is much farther north
than Kansas Paris is 700 miles near
er the North Pole than Topeka and
London is almost 900 miles nearer
In the winter time the nights along
the battle line are sixteen hours long
The sun does not rise until about
a. m. and, after it has circled low IN
IL
-Fe summer time it makes up for this
by rising a little before 4 a m and
setting after p. m
Never Goes to 100.
The mere fact that most Of France
lies as far north as North Dakota and
Belgium is in the same latitude as
the Hudson Bay country, does not
mean it is a cold country at all The
wind from the Atlantic gives it a eli
mate more like that of the state CT
Washington and Oregon along the Pa
cific coast. and it would make fine
summer resort for US if it were as
easily reached as Colorado. In most
of France temperatures as high as 100
degrees Fahrenheit have never been
recorded and the summer afternoons
are hardly ever warmer than 50 de-
grees and summer nights generally as
cool as SO degrees Cold, cloudy and
cherries weather is more common
there in winter and spring than here
but severe cold, as we know it, is IN
known. In fifty years time the tenn
perature at Paris has never been with
in 5 degrees Fahrenheit during the
months of January and February. tho
once in that time it dropped to II
degrees below in December In the
United states colder weather than this
has occurred clear to the central Gulf
coast and in Kansas it is common
thf-g every winter
French winters are noted for the
persistence of cold The pleasant
changes to sunshine and com parative
warmth that we are accustomed to
here every winter are almost unknown
there. Instead the French are used
to tenn perature close to freezing every
night in midwinter and days that are
not much warmer The damp, pene-
traung wind from the ocean and the
frequent rains give them a great deal
of chilly weather.
Rainfall Different.
The rainfall in France is almost
as different in the way it occurs as
are the tempera lures Instead of the
violent summer thunderstorms and
heavy downpours of two to four in
ches that we are used to. their rains