Climate of Pacific Beach and Its Effects. 



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ture being- coincident with the sea-breeze being replaced by the 

 land-breeze during the first hours of the twenty-four, and is in- 

 fluenced by the presence of snow on the mountains. The fifth 

 line, in which the maximum temperature registered by the month 

 is given, explains why there is no cholera infantum, or hepatic, 

 and intestinal diseases on the coast. With these maxima records 

 it should be added that these temperatures are only reached 

 momentarily, and that only during the very warmest days, so 

 that there is not a protracted heat to undergo at any time; nor is 

 the change or variation sudden — a warm day being never followed 

 by .an extra cold night — which, being cool enough to allow of 

 perfect rest, is not so cold as to produce any disturbances. All 

 transitions in change of temperature are slow and gradual, and 

 if the table for the 3 p. m. temperature is observed for July, 

 August, September and October, it will be observed that for four 

 months the days have hardly a shade of difference at that hour. 

 The following temperatures of the sea-water at Pacific Beach, 

 tend to exhibit one of the factors, and at the same time the won- 

 derful equability of its climate, and the comparisons with that of 

 the sea-water at other places will be of interest: 



Pacific Beach, California. . 



Santa Cruz, California 



Newport, Rhode Island . . . . 

 New York, lTew York 

 Charleston, South Carolina. 



5260 



60 

 53 

 36 

 39 

 54 



Sunstroke, heat diseases or accident, and hydrophobia are 

 here unknown, and the highest temperature of the foot hills, or 

 even of the desert — the latter reaching at times the enormous or 

 excessive heat of 140 F, is remarkably well borne, as workmen 

 in the New Liverpool salt works, in the sink of the Colorado 

 Desert, 300 feet below sea-level, in this county, labor in its sum- 

 mer heat with less annoyance or discomfort than that experi- 

 enced by ordinary harvest hands in the fields of the Mississippi 

 Valley. Here, the heat from some reason, has neither the ener- 

 vating or the morbific effect of the same element in the East, as 

 a degree of temperature that in New York would be prostrating 

 and followed by accident, and a great mortality among the young 

 and the aged — will on this coast hardly cause a feeling of discom- 

 fort. 



No land is as free from barometrical perturbations or from the 

 effects of storms as this — there are no local storms or causes that 

 produce them — the rain or storm centre which originates our rain 

 storms being at the north of the Columbia or of Puget Sound, 

 causes no barometrical or atmospheric disturbance at this great 

 distance, Southern California being simply on the outer edge of 

 the storm causes. 



