Montgomery, the Capital City of Alabama: Her Resources and Advantages

by Ala. Montgomery Montgomery Real Estate Agents' Association

Table 1, shows the mean temperature for each month and year. The highest monthly mean temperature, 85 degrees, was July, 1875, and the lowest was 43 degrees in December, 1872, and January, 1873, a range of 42 degrees. The normal temperature for fifteen years is 65 degrees. The highest temperature recorded is 106.9 degrees on July 7, 1881, and the lowest 5.4 degrees, January 9, 1886. From 1874 to 1881 the maximum temperature for the year reached 100 degrees or over, but never more than two or three times in any one year. From 1882 the maximum reached only 98 degrees until June, 1887, it reached 102 degrees.

Table 2, shows the total rainfall for each month in inches and hundredths of an inch. The normal precipitation for the fifteen years is 4.44 inches. The greatest fall occurs in March and the least in October. Occasionally the rain-belt is late in moving up, and when this is the case, the fall in April is increased above the normal for that month. The greatest fall in any twenty-four hours, has been 5.97 inches, April 2, 1876.

Table 3, shows the prevailing wind direction and the hourly maximum velocity. The highest velocity reached in fifteen years was 48 miles, November, 1873. These maximum velocities are nearly all connected with thunder storms, which never last more than a few hours. Rarely does a storm center pass over this section, but is located either east or west, and passes by without causing heavy gales.

Table 4. In this table will be found the dates of first and last frost and other phenomena of interest and value.

MONTGOMERY, ALA.

TABLE NO. 1. MEAN TEMPERATURE

Year.	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May.	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Mean
1872	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	76	63	48	43	..
3	43	53	54	64	74	78	83	80	75	63	54	49	64
4	51	54	61	63	73	80	80	82	76	65	58	51	66
5	47	49	57	62	74	81	85	78	74	60	59	54	65
6	54	54	54	65	73	80	83	80	75	62	53	41	65
7	49	52	55	64	72	81	84	81	75	65	54	52	67
8	46	50	63	67	75	79	84	84	77	65	56	44	66
9	48	49	60	63	74	79	82	77	74	68	58	54	66
1880	58	54	62	67	74	79	81	80	73	65	51	46	66
1	44	50	53	64	75	82	84	81	78	71	56	54	66
2	55	57	62	68	70	80	78	79	74	70	54	45	66
3	50	58	55	66	71	79	82	80	76	71	58	54	67
4	40	55	60	63	75	76	81	78	79	72	54	51	65
5	46	45	52	66	70	80	80	80	75	61	54	47	63
6	42	47	56	64	73	78	80	80	77	66	54	45	63
7	45	59	58	66	76	80	80	79	76	64	56	48	66
8	51	54	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Means	48	53	57	65	73	79	82	80	76	66	55	49	65

TABLE NO. 2, PRECIPITATION.

Year.	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May.	Jun.	Jul.	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Mean
1872	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3.38	0.53	5.73	4.08	..
3	4.97	9.97	4.51	5.57	10.25	11.08	4.17	2.56	3.05	0.68	4.58	2.61	5.33
4	3.69	6.57	10.66	9.45	2.03	4.31	3.87	1.25	0.39	1.97	2.60	5.14	4.33
5	6.71	7.86	11.56	3.54	1.67	1.94	0.99	2.14	8.13	1.68	5.90	6.04	4.85
6	3.70	5.07	7.33	10.99	6.55	4.85	6.24	3.05	1.61	0.96	3.42	5.97	4.98
7	6.67	2.68	7.17	10.36	0.82	2.94	3.43	1.07	4.07	2.51	3.75	4.79	4.19
8	5.39	2.59	2.64	5.91	4.06	5.85	4.59	7.67	2.55	3.49	3.92	6.74	4.62
9	2.06	2.14	2.68	4.50	3.90	3.22	5.21	4.54	1.12	10.20	1.47	7.42	4.04
1880	1.65	6.11	9.26	6.42	7.07	0.90	3.17	4.41	2.83	2.66	4.06	5.68	4.52
1	3.58	7.05	5.45	4.52	1.41	3.04	2.18	5.06	4.49	2.72	4.56	9.75	4.48
2	4.54	9.27	6.92	5.03	2.94	3.98	6.29	3.41	4.18	2.40	1.91	3.88	4.56
3	7.20	2.00	3.61	8.16	2.62	5.02	0.87	2.08	0.22	2.00	1.70	4.23	3.31
4	4.82	4.80	9.50	3.08	1.18	10.26	2.80	3.05	0.58	1.87	2.67	4.00	4.05
5	9.72	3.68	2.93	3.92	8.92	4.32	1.54	3.93	4.83	2.38	3.59	3.13	4.91
6	6.69	4.10	6.86	7.38	2.95	8.61	3.37	5.37	1.12	0.03	6.72	3.05	4.69
7	5.08	7.47	0.72	1.18	2.84	3.31	8.56	2.04	2.03	2.47	0.79	8.25	3.73
8	4.12	7.67	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Means	5.04	5.56	6.12	6.00	3.95	4.91	4.22	3.44	2.79	2.41	3.59	5.30	4.44