372 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



RAINFALL, TEMPERATURE, AND CLEAR DAYS FOR THE SOUTHERN 



STATES AND PACIFIC COAST. 



The tabulated matter in the following tables was taken from the Chief 

 Signal Officer's annual report for the year 1886. and gives the average 

 yearly rainfall, average winter, spring, summer, and autumn temperatures, 

 also the average annual temperature, the highest and lowest temperature, 

 and the average annual number of clear days for the Southern States, 

 Arizona, California, Oregon, and Washington Territory. The States repre- 

 sented in this table are Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, 

 Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, 

 and Texas, Arizona, and Washington Territories, and California and Ore- 

 gon. California stands ahead of all the Southern States in its having more 

 clear days and a higher minimum temperature than any point in the south 

 except Key West, Florida. This table will be found valuable because it 

 represents such a great number of points in all the Southern States except 

 Maryland and Delaware: 



