STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 437 



MONTHLY BULLETIN FOR FEBRUARY. 



Signal Service, U. S. Army, ") 

 Division of the Pacific, 

 San Francisco, March 1, 1888. ) 



Weather. — The month has been marked by an absence of violent storms 

 on the Pacific Coast, and by unusually high temperatures. The rainfall 

 has been light in all districts. Rain fell in Northern California on the first, 

 tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and fourteenth; in Southern California on the first, 

 sixteenth, seventeenth, twenty-eighth, and twenty-ninth; and in Oregon 

 and Washington Territory on the first, second, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, 

 seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-seventh, 

 twenty -eighth, and twenty -ninth. 



Temperature. — The mean temperature for the month was higher than 

 the normal temperature for February in all directions. The departure 

 from the normal increases northward and eastward from Southern Califor- 

 nia, where it is about one degree, becoming about ten degrees in eastern 

 Washington Territory and northern Idaho. Mean temperatures at selected 

 stations were as follows: Walla Walla, 45°; Portland, 44°; Roseburg, 44°; 

 Eureka, 48°; Sacramento, 53°; San Francisco, 53°; Fresno, 53°; Los Angeles, 

 54°; San Diego, 55°. 



Rainfall. — The rainfall was markedly below the average February rain- 

 fall, along the entire Pacific Coast. The deficiency was greatest in western 

 Washington Territory, where it amounted to five and one half inches. 

 Along the coast of Oregon and California the deficiency was about three 

 inches. From the coast eastward, the deficiencies become less, the rain- 

 fall becoming about normal in Idaho and Utah. The following table shows 

 in detail the amount and distribution of the rainfall for the month and 

 season: 



