CLIMATE. 31 
PLACES, SPRING. | SUMMER, | AUTUMN. WINTER, YEAR, i 
San Francisco............. 6.64 0.13 2.281 | L380 | S14. 
Sacramento...... -.| 7.01 0.00 2.61 | 12.11 | 21.73 
ort Reading 11.30 0.39 4.89 | 12.44 | 29.02 
Fort Humboldt 13.51 1.18 4.87 | 16.03 | 34,56 
\ Fort Miller. ........eeceees Oy57 0.02 2.80 9.79 | 22.18 
H AORE. YUMA 0s esx ¥ eyein is wie wt 0.27 1.30 0.86 0.72 3.15 
San Diego cise es eedtiw ennee 2.74 0.55 1.24 5.90 | 10.43 
ASCOMA gies. keis eee sap weine 16.43 | 4.00 | 21.77 | 44.15 | 86.35 
Portland, Maine.... 12.11 | 10.28 | 11.93 | 10.93 | 45.25 
New York city............ 11.69 | 11.64 | 9.93 | 10.39 | 43.65 
New Orleans.........00005 11.29 | 17.28 9.62 | 12.71 | 50.90 
bt. LOUIS. a casaienpracacold cavers’ sosce 12.86 | 14.09 8.7L 6.29 | 41.95 
ROW dneaie dead seen toes T.27 3.39 | 10.89 9.31 | 30.86 
DAS 254 ch ear sas eawews. 5.53 5.92 6.51 4.68 | 22.64 
Liverpool: s< ssciovescwess 6.19 9.78 | 10.81 7.32 | 34.10 
From this table it appears that the amount of rain is about 
one-half as great in San Francisco as in any of the American 
states east of the Mississippi. Here, all the rain falls in the 
winter and spring; there, the amounts are nearly the same in 
the four seasons. They have as much rain in their summer 
and autumn as we in our winter and spring. We have less 
rain than Liverpool and Rome, and about the same amount 
with Paris. San Diego has only one-half and Fort Yuma one- 
seventh -the rain-fall of San Francisco, which latter place is 
surpassed nearly seventy-five per cent. by Humboldt Bay. <At 
Fort Yuma, and all through the Colorado Desert, the rain 
comes not in the rainy season of California, but chiefly in the 
summer and fall, synchronous with the wet season of North- 
western Mexico. Unfortunately, we have no statistics of the 
rain-fall in the Sierra Nevada, or in the Great Basin, within 
the limits of this state. 
The least rain in San Francisco, during any rainy season 
since 1852, has been 19 inches; the largest amount, 24 inches. . 
J obtain the following figures from statistics kept in this city 
by Mr. Thomas Tennant, from 1850 to the present time: 
The average rain-fall in January is 3.52 inches. The most 
notable departures from that average were in 1858, when there 
