8TATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



353 



WEATHER AT NICOLAUS, SUTCER COUNTY, FOR 1886, AND 



UP TO APRIL 30, 1887. 



By Ai.v wi Pkndleton, Voluntary Observer, Signal B< rvice, 1 . S. A. 



The following table gives the lowest and highest daily mean temperature 



for each month, with monthly precipitation, number of clear days, number 

 of rainy days, and days in which frost was observed, and averages for the 

 yar, at Nicolaus, Sutter County, California. As will lie observed from the 

 table, the climate of Nicolaus is mild and equable, the mean daily tempera- 

 ture for the year being as high as 62.02°, while the range above the yearly 

 average is 17.77°, and below, but 14.20 . This record for the past year will 

 compare favorably with the temperature of places lying as much as five 

 degrees south of this parallel, and it is unfortunate that no record of tem- 

 perature has been kept here for the past years from which a more extended 

 report could be compiled. 



The rainfall for the past year was 15.31 inches, being 2.55) inches below 

 the normal for nine years. There were bul fifty-three rainy days in the 

 year, while two hundred and sixty-four clear days were recorded. The 

 rest were cloudy to fair. 



Nicolaus is situated on the right bank of the Feather River, eleven miles 

 above the junction with the Sacramento, and two miles below the mouth 

 of the Bear River. It lies under the same parallel as Lisbon, in Portugal, 

 and is but half a degree north of the latitude of Palermo, in Sicily, and its 

 capabilities for growing fruit are equal to the sunny lands of the famous 

 Italian peninsula, and have a greater range in variety: 



Month. 



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2 - 



■- J 



S ~ 



-. H 



IB S 



: s 



OS — 



I* 





S3 



■a 







January .. 

 February . 



March 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August ... 

 September 

 October- .- 

 November 

 December 



Sums 



Averages . 



31 

 38 

 38 

 42 

 53 

 HO 

 62 

 58 

 54 

 ■41 

 31 

 31 



69 



74 



:<; 



74 



88 



100 



111 



101 



99 



92 



76 



74 



539 



1,034 



47.82 

 55.00 

 52.45 

 56.58 

 04.07 

 75.39 

 79.79 

 78.02 

 72.21 

 00.00 

 52.95 

 50.00 



744.28 



45 



80.1 



02.02 



5.32 

 .49 



1.50 



4.93 

 .15 

 .00 

 .00 

 trace 

 .00 

 .89 

 .04 



1.99 



10 

 6 

 12 

 12 

 1 

 

 

 

 

 4 

 2 



15.31 



53 



1.27 



4.4 



15 

 20 

 17 

 17 

 25 

 30 

 31 

 29 

 27 

 20 

 20 

 13 



10 

 1 

 1 



1 

 

 

 

 







2 



1 

 3 



264 



29 



o<> 



N.W. 

 N.W. 



S.E. 

 S. 



s.w. 



N.W. 



S.W. 



s. 



S.E. 

 N.W. 



N. 

 N.W. 



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