Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1905 — July Was And August Is [ARTICLE]

July Was And August Is

July 1905 is now only a memory. Its storms and its sunshine; its sweltering heat and its delightful ooolness; its joys and its sorrows; its laughter and its tears, are as irrevocably gone as “the vears beyond the Flood.” From a weather point of view, it was a good deal of an average kind of a July. There was 3.80 inches of rain, here, whioh is about what July generally does for us. The sunshine and shadows were also distributed about iu the average ratio, being 14 clear days, 13 partly clear, and 4 oloudy. Bain iu measurable quantities came on 9 different days, and traoes of rain on fjur others. A psouliarity of their month’s weather was a long spell of rainy weather, when during 11 successive days, there was more or less rain every day exoept one; and this was followed by 15 solid days, with no measurable amount of rain. “After that the deloge.” Otherwise the big rain, with a rainfall cf from 1$ to 2\ inohes, depending on looation and perchance, the kind of a dish it was caught in. The hottest weather was 91 de grees and the ooolest 49. There were five days, all in a bunch, when 90 degrees or higher was reached every day. During 26 days, the temperature reached 80 degrees or above. On the hottest day, the 18th the temperature averaged 83 degrees, the whole 24 hours, On the coolest day, the 24th, the average was only 59J degrees.