The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-02
Summer Just Closed Estab-
lished New Records Here.
All Varieties of Weather in
Last Three Months.
SUMMER CLOSES SEPT. q
Total Precipitation Since June
Was 9.S2 Inches.
July Was Wettest Seventh
Month In Thirteen Years.

The summer just closed was one of
the greatest record breakers since the
establishment of the weather bureau
in Topeka thirty-six years ago. Old
records that had outlived their useful
ness were broken numerically by Old
Sol. All varieties of weather occurred
and even precipitation, records were
smashed. Topekans had the privilege
Of enjoying cool and extreme hot
weather and wet spells and drouths.
Summer does not officially close
until september 81, but Kansans go by
the action of the mercury and the
brand of weather and not altogether
by old fashioned rules. The dates for
the seasons were established years be-
fore a weather station was placed
west of the Mississippi river. Kan
sans recognize September 1 as the
beginning of fall.
1853 Degrees Above Normal.
During the last three months the
mercury rose to total of 1853 de-
grees above normal or an average OF
one and two-thirds degrees above nor
NAL each day. On thirty-five days
the temperature rose to. about 90 de-
grees or above. The highest Temporal
ture of the season was 106 degrees on
August "a. 1t was the highest tenn
perature ever known in Topeka after
the first week. in August and was the
third hottest DAY ever recorded.
The total precipitation was 9.82
inches or Ala inches below normal.
The rain in July was five times as
much as that in both August and June.
| In twenty-four days of the summer a
precipitation, of .01 of'an inch or more
occurred.
June was the third driest and fifth
hottest June on the local record of the
weather bureau. From the first to
twenty-fifth day of that month the
60,
above normal and the total precipita-
ton in that period was only a meager
.04 of an inch. The total precipita-
ton for the month was 1.35 inches or
3.46 inches below normal and less
| than that of any other sixth month
since 1911. A violent thunderstorm
occurred on the twenty-fifth of the
| month when the wind reached a
velocity of fifty miles an hour.
| July Wet Month.
July was the wettest seventh month
| In thirteen years and the coolest in
| seven years. The temperatures were
almost continually below normal until
the twenty-first day and the average
temperature for the month was IL
! degrees below normal. The lowest
| temperature was 81 degrees, making
| it one of the coolest Fourth of July
| on record. The, total precipitation
which was well distributed. was S.04
| lHCneS or SIS 1ncneS ABOVE normal.
| On the tenth day of July a rain OF
4.10 inches occurred. 1t was the heav-
| lest twenty-four hour rain in Topeka
4 for thirteen years. On July IL the
river reached a stage of 1913 feet, the
highest local stage since June. 1919.
| August was the driest eighth month
in twenty-eight years and the hottest
in four years. The total rainfall was
| .43 of an inch, only 10 per cent of the
| normal precipitatiou. 1t was also the
| driest month on record in Topeka ex-
| cept 1894. The mercury exceeded the
90 degree mark on more than one
| half the days.