Abnormal Weather in America.
I The month of July now ended has, Bays a New York correspondent, a record for high temperature,' humidity, rainfall, and thunder and lightning storms which has never been equalled. The thermometer yesterday at New York at 10 a.m. marked 90deg, which means nearly if not quite lOOdeg at half -past three in the afternoon, For thirty-two days ending yesterday the average maximum has been within a fraction of 90deg. The Weather Bureaux possess no record of a like protracted season of high temperature. For the last two weeks of this period the humidity has been especially excessive. Ib is believed that such combinations of high temperature and humidity have never before been experienced by this generation. New York is no exception to the rest of the country. The same conditions have prevailed north, south, past, and west. The rainfall for July is the heaviest known in fifteen years, being G*7 inches ; the average July rainfall for the past fifteen years has been only 4-37 inches. The deaths due to sunstroke are many, and cases of prostration have been very numerous, every day in New York producing from five to fifteen deaths.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6038, 21 September 1887, Page 3
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196Abnormal Weather in America. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6038, 21 September 1887, Page 3
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