Climate, Beers History of Warren County, Ohio

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Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 11 February 2005

Sources:
The History of Warren County Ohio
Part III. The History of Warren County by Josiah Morrow
Chapter IX. Physiography and Antiquities
(Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992)
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The climate of the county, like that of Ohio and a great part of the United States, is one of extremes. The extremes are of temperature rather than of moisture, as the rains fall usually at all seasons in sufficient quantities for the

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purposes of supplying the wants of vegetation. It is comparatively rare that crops are destroyed, or so much injured by lack of moisture that there is not enough of the principal productions both for home consumption and shipment. An entire absence of rain for weeks attracts universal attention.

The extremes of temperature marked by the thermometer are 30° below zero, and 103 1/2° above zero F. It is rare for the mercury to fall 16° below zero, or to rise above 98° The mean annual temperature is about 52°, or 2° lower than that of Cincinnati.

The mean annual precipitation of rain and melted snow cannot be far from forty-two inches. More rain falls in a series of years in June than in any other month, and less in September. The moisture which gives fertility to the Ohio Valley comes chiefly from (he Gulf of Mexico and the winds from the southwest are most likely to be rain-producing. The winds from western directions predominate far above all others, those from the southwest being the most frequent, the northwest next and the southeast next. The least frequent winds are from the north. A register kept by Mr. J. H. Jackson in the hills of Cincinnati, for thirty-five years from 1814 to 1849, shows that the average annual winds at noon were as follows:

From the southwest
181
From the northwest
64
From the southeast
50
From the west
34
From the northeast
30
From the south
28
From the east
13
From the north
11

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