Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1902 — The Month of August. [ARTICLE]

The Month of August.

lS? n day was the last day of . August and the last day of the calendar summer, but the astronomical summer runs until Sept. 20tb. The actual summer usually lasts until about tbe 10th of this month. The state weather records show the August jmt passed to have been the coldest August, with one exception, since official weather records have Been kept. The exception was August 1885; and ’hat was a wet month, whereas this year August has been unusually dry. A dry cold August is a combination of which there are no previous records. The whole summer has been unusually free from excessive heat, but June and J uly were very wet. Tbe local weather records show that in Rensselaer there was rain on only 7 days in the month and on one of those 7 only a trace, The total rainfall was only 1.56 inches, which is scarcely half of the average rainfall for the month. The biggest rain was 69 inches on ths 13th. The hottest day was the 30lh, with 91 degress. On only three days was the temperature up to 90 degrees or above. The coldest weather was 45 degrees, on the 17th. Most of the mouth was cleaa and bright weather, there being but few cloudy or partly cloudy days. In point of really agreeable and pleasant weather, few better Augusts have been experienced in this region.