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The West American Scientist. 



In the northwestern most corner of the United States coast on 

 Puget Sound at Neah Bay, the average rainfall is in inches, the 

 maximum reaching 132 inches, the record for one single day- 

 being 6.90 inches. In January of 1880, the fall was 25.70; in 

 November of 1865, 27.60; and in December of 1863 ,27.30 inches 

 for the month How gradually the rain diminishes in quantity 

 may be better described by the mean annual fall at coast stations 

 from Neah Bay on the north to San Diego on the south: Neah 

 Bay 1 1 1 inches, Astoria 77.12, Port Orford 70.50^ Humboldt 

 Light House 33.02, Point Arenas 30.53, Point Reyes 28.09, Santa 

 Cruz 25:24, Monterey 14.42, Point Conception 12.21, San Diego 

 1 1. 01. This shows the relation that Southern California bears to 

 the storm centre. 



RAINFALL AND RAINY SEASONS. 



The winter is in California the season during which the rain 

 falls, but it is not necessarily a wet season. During seventeen 

 years observations the U. S. Signal Service gives ?our seasons 

 with less than seven inches of rain — the?e are the dry winters; 

 six seasons with over ten and less than seventeen inches which 

 are good seasons; six with over seven and less than ten inches ol 

 rain, constituting a medium season; and one season nearly twenty- 

 six inches, being an extremely wet season. These observations 

 were at San Diego 



The following table gives the mean for each month per annum 

 for the seventeen years, at San Diego on the coast: 



AT SAN DIEGO ON THE COAST— MONTHLY INCHES OF BAIN. 





July 



Aug. 



Sept 



uct 



Nov 



Dec. 



Jan. 



Feb. 



Mar. 



Apr, 



May 



Jun. 



Tot'l, 



Avr'g per 













month for 





























16 years. 



0.03 



0.19 



0.04 



0.44 



0.73 



2.09 



2.05 



2.33 



1.55 



0.93 



0.41 



0.06 



10.95 



1876-77.. 



.03 



.06 



.03 



.08 



.04 



0.15 



1.05 



0.18 



1.44 



0.26 



.43 



.00 



3.75 



1883-84.. 



.00 



.00 



.00 



2.01 



0.20 



1.82 



1.34 



9.05 



6.23 



2.84 



2.17 



.31 



25.97 



1888-89.. 



.01 



.00 



.04 



0.26 



1.83 



2.84 



1.72 



1.80 



2.20 



.19I0.03 



.10 



11.02 



There are nevei any high winds in this locality, the U.S. Signal 

 Service station having returned all its cautionary signals to the 

 department some eight years ago — as an occasion to use them 

 had never occurred — the average velocity of the wind is about 

 seven miles per hour. 



The atmosphere is one of remarkable clearness, its diaphaneity 

 being such, that often a small house or any other like article is 

 clearly distinguishable at the distance of sixteen miles, the Point 

 Loma light is plainly visible at night from the mountains at a dis- 

 tance of fifty or more miles. 



P. C. Remondino . 



Another biographical notice of the late Dr. C. C. Parry has ap 

 peared, by Dr. Lorenzo G. Yates. 



