Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1916 — August Weather. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

August Weather.

Like July, August owes i:s name to a Roman emperor. Augustus Caesar was born in September, and it would seem natural that he should ' prefer September to August, and that he should follow the example of his predecessor, Julius Caesar, and give his name to the month of his birth. But it so happened that Augustus considered the sixth month on the Roman calendar, Sextilis, his lucky month, and since it followed the month to which Julius had given his name, he adopted it as his favorite month, took a day from February and added it to Sextilis, and changed the August. In its characteristics, August is much like July and September. More rain usually falls in August than in September and less than in July. Last year, for instance, the total precipitation in August was 5.25 inches, while in July it was 7.94 and in September 4.17. For the period covering 45 years since the local weather bureau was established, the average precipitation in August has been 3.28 inches, in July 4.20 and in September 3.03. The maximum precipitation during the month for the period was 6.70 inches in 1886; the minimum was 0.42 in 1897. Last year August was about the average in respect to rainfall except for one day s —August 11 —when 2.07 inches of rain fell. Last year the temperature in August varied from 44 degrees on the 31st to 88 degrees on the 16th; there were no storms, six clear days, 10 partly cloudy and 15 cloudy. The average number of clear days for the period of 45 years, is 11, partly cloudy 13 and cloudy seven. Except for September and October, in which the average number of clear days is 12, August holds the record for clear days. The warmest August day on record was August 12, 1881, when a temperature of 101 degrees was recorded; the coolest August day was last year, when on August 31 the temperature fell to 44. Last year August also proved to be the coolest August in 45 years, the average temperature for the month being 68 degrees. The second coolest August was in 1 883, when the aver-

age was TO. The warmest August was in 1900, when the average was 79. The average for the whole period is 73.8, and it is seldom that the average for a single August varies more than two degrees from the average for the period. Last year was an exception, for as a rule September averages from four to six degrees cooler than August, while last year the average was the same. On September 14, 1915, the maximum temperature was 90 degrees, while on the warmest day in August it was 88. In 1891, the two months averaged same, August being 72 and September 71, but the next year August averaged 74 and September 67, thus showing that a cool August one year does not necessarily mean a cool August the next. —-Indianapolis News.

Posing English Setters With the Carl Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, Rensselaer, Saturday, August 5.