The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-01
Weather During 1920 Featured
For Evenness.
Highest Temperature Did Not
Go Above 100.
NO ZERO MARKS DURING YEAR
Total Precipitation In Topeka
Was $3.50 Inches.
Nearly so Per Cent of Days
Were Sunshiny.

Smashing records was the common
est thing that was done during 1890.
Every commercial and Industrial ac-
tivity reached peaks Of some sort
or other during the year. Kansas had
one OF the biggest crops of its history,
and the greatest famine which ever
occurred, is raging in China. There
have been contrasts in everything
except the weather.
The chief feature of interest about
the weather of 1890 was its evenness,
its general pIeasantness. And the
weather factory seems to have been
nearly the only plant which settled
into to harness and turned out good
stuff and lots OF it during the year,
so far as Kansas was concerned.
Pleasant Weather An Year.
Nineteen twenty was the third year
of the past thirty-four on which the
highest temperature was less than
100 degrees while the lowest was high
er than zero. The temperature range
of the year has been less than 100
degrees. Nineteen twenty was the
first year in twelve during which there
was no zero weather. In 1906 and
again in 1908, there was g. tempera-
ture range of less than 100 degrees
The highest temperature ever re-
corded in Topeka was 100 degrees.
on August 5, 1918, and the lowest was
25 degrees below zero, on December
., 1899.
Total Precipitation $50 Inches.
The total precipitation at Topeka
during the year was 1910 inches, as
compared with a normal precipita-
ton of 33.76 inches. The final six
- Nj ~
than normal, in precipitation. Much
the same condition pertains in the re-
mainder of the state. showing that
there was plenty OF rain during the
year
Kansas weather wa. ideal, from the
standpoint of comfort and crop pro-
ducing alike, in 1920. The small range
of temperature, the precipitation Just
a little above the normal amount, anu
the high percentage Of sunshine dur
ing the year-nearIy so per cent of
the days were sunshiny. all com bined
to make the year ideal from the eli
matte standpoint
March Was Windy.
the weather OF the year at Topeka are
that: March was the windiest month
on record here; April was the coolest
and wettest April for thirteen years,
and on Easter Sunday occurred the
heaviest April snowfall in the history
of the city, followed by a temperature
OF degrees, which is the lowest ever
recorded so late in the season and the
mean temperature OF the month was
lower than any other April mean tenn
perature, with one exception: Angus
was the most pleasant and favorable
on the local record; October was the
mildest recorded in Topeka in the past
twenty years; there was more cloudy
weather in November, 1920, than in
any other November on the local rec
ord, and more than in any other month
in thirteen years time. and the week
ending November 1s was the coolest
ever recorded so early in the season.
Summary OF Weather.
Compiled from data gathered from
daily Geographic reports from las sta
tons IN the state, the weather bureau
has issued a summary of the year.
weather which epitomizes the out
standing features.
the entire state, by months. are as fol-
lows:
The Weather by Months.
January-Exceptio mild. drv
and sunshiny weather for the season
prevailed in almost all parts of the
state. The total fall Of moisture failed
10 equal a tenth Of an inch over a
very large area in the western half.
February-The unusually mild win
ter weather continued thru this month,
with a general absence of sufficient
rain or snow to moisten the upper
SOIL Only three other Februarys on
record have passed without lower
temperatures than degrees below
zero. the lowest of this month.
March-This was the vfndiest
month on record in Kansas. with
probably more numerous and severe
dust storms than the state had ever
experienced in any previous month.
Temperatures were mild. The lowest
March temperature On record occurred
at the elimination of a cold wave on
the 7th when a minimum of 81 de-
grees occurred at New Ulysses.
April-This was the coolest April
except one. in the history of the state
with more moisture than any other
month subsequent to June precedins
and an excessive amount of cloudi-
ness. It began with an Easter snow
storm, on the 4th, when from to &c
inches of snow fell over the northern
counties and 3 to 5 inches in the
southern, followed on the 5th by this
lowest April temperatures on record
in the eastern half and severely cold
weather in ALI parts which killed mos
of the fruit buds
May An exceptional amount Of
cloudy, damp weather prevailed, will