134. Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
From May to September, inclusive, there is more wind at San Fran- 
cisco than at Philadelphia, but in the remaining five months, from Oc- 
tober to April, there is less. 
he following table is a summary of three daily observations, con- 
tinued through the year 1851, showing the direction of the atmospheric 
currents with reference to their comparative force. 
N. & N. W. E. & N. E.| S. & S, E, |W. & S. We 
POGEY CBD 5 hy cine tomy} 49 24 49 30 
Light breeze, . , ‘ 86 39 88 146 
reeze, ‘ > ‘ 69 5 36 335 
ee oe ee 20 0 13 191 
Highwind. .  , 2 0 2 29° 
Very high wind, . 0 0 3 I 
Se ete be 
he year. 
Much as is said of the violence of the wind at this place, I have never 
yet witnessed a wind in California equal to that which frequently attends 
a thunder-gust oran easterly storm of the highest grade in the Atlantic 
The high winds of summer are always wes 
terly, and without rain 
In the course of the year there were 169 windy days. On 123 of 
ridian, and it continued after sunset on 57 only. There were but 
twenty days in the year windy at sunrise. 
_ the sea breeze of summer, which forms the most striking trait of the 
climate of San Francisco, demands something more thana passing 9 
tice, and will be reserved for another chapter, together with the subject 
is, rains, electrical phenomena, es ais 
