Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1905 — Sunday Was a Record Breaker. [ARTICLE]

Sunday Was a Record Breaker.

Sunday was a record breaker for heat here. The highest temperature was 88 i degrees. It was the hottest October weather ever recorded here. The next highest for the mouth was 83 on both the 4th and sth of this month. In former years, so far as records have Ireen kept, 82 degrees was the hottest in October, which occured on the Ist of the month in 1901 and on the 3rd in 1903. But the air was so dry and bracing that the great heat was scarcely noticed, and it was entirely comfortable in the shade at any time of the <1 iy, which illustrates the difference between dry and humid heat.

Another record broken Snnday was in the range of temperature liming the day, or the difference itetween the night and the day heat. Snnday the temperature jumped from 42} at night toßß} ijy lay, or a range of 46 degrees. Heretofore the greatest range in any 24 hours was 41 degrees, on Dec. 13, 1903, when the temperature fell suddenly, front the effects >f a fearful arctic cold wave. But for gnat warmptlr by day and great coolness at nighl, the went her for the past few days has been unporallekd in this region. It is a common characteristic of ’Clear and dry climates like Californian nd Arizona, but not at all common here, in fact decidedly uncommon.