Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1911 — Weather Bureau Reports Summer Driest in Sixteen Years. [ARTICLE]

Weather Bureau Reports Summer Driest in Sixteen Years.

Weather Bureau officials, following an investigation of statistics on precipitation, announce that the present summer is the driest in sixteen years. The aggregate rainfall since Jan. 1 has been 8.83 inches less than the average. The total rainfall from Jan. 1 to July 20 was 15.52 Inches, while the normal amount of precipitation for the time is 24.5 inches. This deficiency is the largest since the summer of 1895, when the total deficiency was 14.49 inches. In 1899 and 1901 there was much dry weather and a corresponding deficiency in precipitation, but in neither of these years was the departure from normal so marked as this year.