Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1901 — It Was An Unusual August. [ARTICLE]

It Was An Unusual August.

The mouth of August just past was about as unusual in its weather, as was the July preceding it, but in a much different way. July was the hottest July on record, in this region of the country. August, on the other hand was unusually cool for that month. There were scarcely any excessively hot days at all, and not a single hot night. Every day was warm, there was not a day in the whole month when the temperature did not reach 80 or above, except the very last day, when the highest was 79. But the nights, as before stated were all very cool. There was only one night when the temperature dM not get to 70 or below, and that was the 10th when it reached 71. And some of the hottest days were followed by the coolest nights. Thus on the 7th, the maximum day temperature was 91 and the minimum the following night was 51. A drop of 40 degrees in about 12 hours. The 2 hottest days were the 9tb. with 97 degrees and the 14tb, 96 degrees. The coolest night was the 11th, with 49 degrees. Take the month clear through, its weather was probably one of the pleasantest and healthiest Augusts ever known in tbit region.