Average Maximum for Last 21
Days of July 94.5 and for First Bight of August 98.83
The abnormal weather continues well over 90 degrees, and up to the present time shows mo sign of diminishing. Although some relief waa afforded at the drop inthe thermometer on Saturday, the heat wave continues unbroken. For well lover four weeks now the thermome-for maximum has kept in the nineties, with minimum in proportion. The "North-China Daily News"! published last week the figures for the last' 21 days of July and, according to these, there were only two days on which the figures dropped below 90 degrees. The rainfall was almost negligible, having fallen in proportions of an inch on three occasions on July 11 (0.06 inches), 13 (0.18 inches) and 19 (0.10 inches). "No rain has fallen since our last report. Meanwhile the state of humidity is the worst part of the heat. We publish hhorewith the average figures for this year and 1025 for the last 21 days of July. There was, it will be noticed on comparison, an excess of nearly six dogeees "this year over last in the maximum
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