The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-31

never occurred in
Topeka e f o e.
has occurred here since December 10,
1919 or for more than two years.
The highest temperature in To-
peka this year was 80 degrees which
occurred on July 27 and August %.
The lowest was five degrees above
zero on December 4.
The rainfall in the city during the
last year amounted to 37.47 inches.
This was S.71 inches above the nor
NAL rainfall. The amount Of rainfall
this year was the largest of any year
since 1909 with the exception of 1915,
when it amounted to 44.41 inches
There have been no worthwhile
rains in Topeka for the last three
months as only IA inches of rain
was received. This is only % per
cent of the normal precipitation for
this period. During June, July and
August, 2O.44 inches of rain fell.
This was one of the wettest summers
on record but was followed by
All, ,.
January was one of the niIdest on
record in Topeka. The temperatures
were almost all as high as those which
usually prevail during the first week
in March. The temperatures were
above normal every day except three.
The highest temperature during the
month was ga degrees on the TWEEN
tieth and the lowest was 3 degrees
on the seventeenth, making it the first
January on the local record without
a temperature as low as L. degrees.
1t was also the least sunshiny January
in fourteen years and had the least
number Of clear days Topeka has ex-
perienced in thirty three years except
one.
February.
February and the winter ending
with it was the mildest winter on the
local weather record, which extends
back to 1887. The average temporal
ture of the month was 40 degrees,
which almost equals the normal one
for March. The highest mark during
the month was rs degrees on the four
teenth. This was the warme est weather
ever recorded so early in the season.
A number Of days the temperatures
averaged as much as 20 to so degrees
above normal. The lowest tempera-
s.ure Of the month was 10 degrees,
(Which was many degrees above the
usual minimum temperature.
March,.
March will be remembered in To-
peka for having some of the warmest
weather ever known SO early in the
year and also Tor one of the most dis
astrOus spring freezes on record. The
mercury was Is to 20 degrees above
normal and almost reached midsum-
mer temperatures until the twenty
seventh. when the temperature
dropped to Is degrees. The third
heaviest rain ever recorded in March,
which was 2.37 inches, fell in a period
Of twenty-four hours on the seventh
and eighth days.
April.
April was ones of the windiest
months on record. There was much
chilly, gloomy weather during the lat
ter part of the month, altho the aver
age temperature was , degrees above
normal. Killings frosts occurred on
the ninth. tenth and eighteenth days.
The latter was more than week
later than the average date for the last
killing frost of spring. Snow fell the
entire sixteenth day, accompanied by
a wind ranging from 25 to 40 miles
an hour. The snow amounted to one
inch which was more than the COM
bined amounts of February and March,
preceding.
The first part of May in Topeka
was marked by abnormally cool
cloudy weather with northerly winds
and frosts were observed on the third
Pnd fourth days. During this period
khe temperature averaged five de-
frees below normal but during the
latter part it averaged 10 degrees
above normal. A terrific wind storm
occurred on the twenty-siXth day ac-
companied by a heavy rain. This
wind reached a maximum velocity of
46 miles an hour and caused consider
able damage.
The high temperatures and heavy
rainfall almost made June a record
breaking month. The temperatures
were higher than they had been in
June for three years and more rain
fell during the month than any June
since 1915. Altho tho days in June
were abnOrmally warm there were no
record breakers. The rainfall dur
ing the month amounted to $50
inches, S-75 inches of it having fallen
on June Z and s. The rain was the
biggest downpour in two years. Rain
Tell seven successive days between
June 81 and %. This record had not
been equaled in ten years. At 10
o'clock at night on the ninth day a
zone OF diffused white light on the
northern horizon was observed. It
looked like a cloud illumination after
sunset Hail measuring as large as
one-half inch in diameter fell on the
seventh day and almost covered the
ground in one minute.
July.
July had the warmest weather, the
least breeze to make the temperatures
sndurable and the most sunshine of
. any month in two years time The
temperature did not drop below IS de-
rees during the month, and it was the
s@rst month in thirty-four years that
q did not do so.
August.
More rain fell in Topeka in August
than in any month for the last twelve
years and it was the second wettest
August on record. The first seventeen
days Of the month were cool, with fire.
quent and heavy rains, while the last
TWO weeks were considerably above