CALIFORNIA AND ITALY.
The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, in its pamphlet describing that city and county, gives a letter from the Signal Service Observer at Sacramento, comparing the temperature of places in California and Italy. He writes:
To prove to your many and intelligent readers the equability and uniformity Of the climate of Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Los Angeles, as compared with Mentone and San Remo, of the Riviera of Italy and of Corfu, I append the monthly temperature for each place. Please notice a much warmer temperature in winter at the California stations, and also a much cooler summer temperature at the same places than at any of the foreign places, except Corfu. The table speaks with more emphasis and certainty than I can, and is as follows:
| Month. | San Diego's mean temperature. | Santa Barbara's mean temperature. | Los Angeles' mean temperature. | Mentone's mean temperature. | San Remo's mean temperature. | Corfu's mean temperature. |
| February | 54.2 | 55.6 | 54.2 | 48.5 | 50.2 | 51.8 |
| March | 55.6 | 56.4 | 56.0 | 52.0 | 52.0 | 53.6 |
| April | 57.8 | 58.8 | 57.9 | 57.2 | 57.0 | 58.3 |
| May | 61.1 | 60.2 | 61.0 | 63.0 | 62.9 | 66.7 |
| June | 64.4 | 62.6 | 65.5 | 70.0 | 69.2 | 72.3 |
| July | 67.3 | 65.7 | 68.3 | 75.0 | 74.3 | 67.7 |
| August | 68.7 | 67.0 | 69.5 | 75.0 | 73.8 | 81.3 |
| September | 66.6 | 65.6 | 67.5 | 69.0 | 70.6 | 78.8 |
| October | 62.5 | 62.1 | 62.7 | 74.4 | 61.8 | 70.8 |
| November | 58.2 | 58.0 | 58.8 | 54.0 | 58.3 | 63.8 |
| December | 55.5 | 55.3 | 54.8 | 49.0 | 49.3 | 68.4 |
| Averages | 60.6 | 60.2 | 60.4 | 60.4 | 60.1 | 65.6 |
The table on pages 210 and 211, "Extremes of Heat and Cold," is published by the San Diego Land and Farm Company, whose pamphlet says:
The United States records at San Diego Signal Station show that in ten years there were but 120 days on which the mercury passed 80°. Of these 120 there were but 41 on which it passed 85°, but 22 when it passed 90°, but four over 95°, and only one over 100°; to wit, 101°, the highest ever recorded here. During all this time there was not a day on which the mercury did not fall to at least 70° during the night, and there were but five days on which it did not fall even lower. During the same ten years there were but six days on which the mercury fell below 35°. This low temperature comes only in extremely dry weather in winter, and lasts but a few minutes, happening just before sunrise. On two of these six days it fell to 32° at daylight, the lowest point ever registered here. The lowest mid-day temperature is 52°, occurring only four times in these ten years. From 65° to 70° is the average temperature of noonday throughout the greater part of the year.