Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1883 — RAINFALL OF THE UNITED STATES. [ARTICLE]

RAINFALL OF THE UNITED STATES.

Thera is s small circle in Central Florida where .the annual rainfall ranges from sixty to seventy inches. There is a belt covering Western Alabama, Eastern Mississippi, also Southern' Louisiana for fifty to sixty miles on either side of the Mississippi river, where it measures from sixty to sixty-four inches. Bat the heaviest rainfall in the United States is in Alaska, where it is over eighty inches, and along the western coast of Oregon and Washington Territory, between the Cascade range and the Pacific, increasing from sixty eight-inches south of the Columbia river to eighty inches on Puget sound. In Central Georgia and South Carolina it is fifty-two to forty-eight; in Central North Carolina and Virginia, diminishing northward, it is forty-eight to thirty-six. Along the Atlantic coast, for about seventy-five miles inward, it ranges from forty-four inches at Savannah to forty in Connecticut, and thence increases to fortyfour in Northern Maine. Along both flanks of the Alleghanies and Blue Bidge it is nearly uniform at forty. In most of tne region south of the Ohio and Missouri, from Eastern Tennessee to Eastern Texas, it ranges from fortyeight inches in the south to forty-four in the north, and the latter is about the average for Southern Indiana and Southwestern Ohio. The average for Illinois and Northern Indiana and Pennsylvania is about forty. For Western New York, Northern Ohio, Lower Michigan, Wisconsin, Southeastern Minnesota and most of lowa it ranges from forty to thirty-two, diminishing toward the great lakes. West of the Missouri it ranges from thirty inches in Eastern Kansas to twenty-six in Dakota, and diminishes toward the Bocky monntains. In Southern Texas it ranges from forty-eight near the southeastern corner to twenty-eight on the'Bio, Grande, and diminishes to thirty-four in the northeastern, and twenty-nine in the northwestern corners. In California the rainfall ranges from sixty inches on the northern coast to nine or ten in the south, and diminishes inland to eight or ten in the mountain districts, and still less in the desert regions. As for the greater part of the region embracing all the Territories except Alaska, Washington and Southeastern Dakota, all of Colorado and Nevada, the western parts of Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota, and the eastern portion of Oregon, therainfall varies between ten inches and twenty-two. Here and there within this region there are districts almost rainless. This is most common in in Northern Arizona and Utah. —lnter Ocean.