The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-08-02
MONTH OF JULY
DRIEST in YEARS
HOTTEST DAY IS JULY THIRD
MERCURY REACHES
80 DEGREES

This summer bids fair to be one
of the hottest and driest experienced
| in twelve years if there is not break
in it soon, according to information
gained at the meteorological office at
the college of agriculture Wednesday
morning.
Already the temperature has been
above ninety nine times up to the
first of August. The first was on
June 25 and the other eight were
scattered through the month of July.
The average number Of times that
the mercury mas risen above ninety
during the past twelve years is fourt-
cen a year. The most number Of
times that it reached or exceeded
there were eighteen days of that de-
gree Of heat.
July 8 Hottest Day
The hottest day this year was on
the third Of July wien the tempera-
ture reached SO degrees. This was
closely seconded last Monday July 81,
when the mecury rose to 81 degrees.
Temperature readings for the past
three days show Sunday, maximum SO,
minimum SO, mean 70; Monday maxi
mum 81, minimum t5. mean 81; Tues
day, maximum 95, minimum 66, mean
801h.
Readings for the entire month of
July show mean maximum tenpera-
ture of 85.6 as against 81.3 last year,
mean minimum temperature of 54.5
as against 1872 last year, and Il month
ly mean of 70 as against 65.2 last
year.
The mean maximum temperature is
arrived at by dividing the sum of all
daily maximum temperatures for the
month by 81 days The mean mini
mum by dividing the sum Of the daily
minimum temperatures by 81. The
monthly mean is the sum of the mean
maximum and minimum readings d.
vided by two.
Exceptionally Dry Year
1t has not only been a summer of
intensive heat but also of exceptional
dryness. The entire rainfall for the
year to date has been 8.19 inches az
against 1922 for the same period of
1921 This means that the moisture
has been about half of that last year
for the same period.
Since the last snowfall on April II |
which amounted to III inches, only |
II. inches of rain has fallen. The |
normal rainfall for that period over
thirty years amounts to 5.11 inches. |
The deficiency in rainfall during that |
time amounts to 440 inches.
July Very Dry
The normal monthly rainfall for
the month of July as figured over a
period of thirty years is .68 inches.
T,,J ,{c in foI1
at all, creating shortage of .68 inches
over what should normally have fall
en-.
In July 1921, 10 inches Of rain
Tell, or. 81 inches less than normal.
The deficiency in rainfall for the per-
cd since January 1, 1922 is 4.88 in
,hes from the normal as against 3.38
nches for last year, or 1.5 inches less
'ainfa1l this year than last.
The average annual rainfall for the
past thirty years is 22.24 inches
rhe greatest yearly precipitation, 1887
nches, fell in 1899. The smallest an
lual rainfall recorded is in 1911 when
,ut 1866 inches fell.
A comparison of the number of
lear and cloudy daycs for the month
# July, 1921 and 1922 shows: Clear,
922, % days, 1921, rs; part cloudy,
922, 5, 1921, 1; cloudy, 1922 and 1921
days each.
Moscow Has Good Climate
In speaking of the weather this !,
ummer, Mr.. Burkhardt, university !
said: "the weather this /,
ear has been exceptionally dry. But !
II inches of rain has fallen since !
be 18th of April and that has been
0 scattered that it did not wet the :
oil a half inch deep.
"There will either be consi ierable a
Tet weather this fall or it will be one It
the driest years in the thirty years. (
hould the normal amount Of rain i
Ill this year there will be from aow
} the end of the year 1405 inches OF O
recipitation. III
GAS whole the climatic conditions v
Moscow are very good, said MIR. e