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The following table shows the clear, fair, cloudy, foggy, and rainy days, 

 minimum temperature below 32° and maximum above 90°, with number 

 of thunder storms for each month of the year 1888, at Fresno: 



The rainfall for the past seven years has been as follows at Fresno: 



1882.. 6.70 



1883 - - 7.64 



1884 - - 15.98 



7.10 



1885. 



1 ssi ; . 

 1S.S7. 

 1888. 



19.42 

 8.40 

 6.48 



Average 



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Table Showing the Average Temperature and Rainfall for the San 



Joaquin Valley Counties. 



The following named counties are represented in this table: San Joaquin, 

 Merced, Fresno, Tulare, and Kern. The lowest temperature below 20° 

 was recorded in the following named counties: Fresno, Tulare, and Kern. 

 The lowest being for each county named above, as follows: 15°, 10°, 16°, 

 respectively. Taking elevation in consideration, the southern end of the 

 San Joaquin Valley is much colder than any portion of the Sacramento 

 Valley. For instance, Auburn, in Placer County, Sacramento Valley, at 

 an elevation of 1,363 feet, has a minimum record of but 18°, while Delano, 

 only 319 feet, has a minimum record of 16°, or two (2) below Auburn. 

 This table will convince the wayfarer, though a stranger, that he must come 

 north to the Sacramento Valley to find a more equable climate, unless he 

 decides to cross into Santa Barbara or Los Angeles Counties and winter 

 there; even then the great Sacramento Valley will compare favorably with 

 those counties in a great many respects. The mean annual temperature 

 of Los Angeles and Santa Barbara is the same as Sacramento, but the 

 average winter temperature of the two former places is much milder than 

 that of Sacramento City: 



