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Show WEEK OPPRESSIVE Bf KMKIBIIY Normal Drop of One Degree De-gree Each Seven Degrees Starts Tuesday. While last week was not the hottest of the present summer, it was the most op-! op-! pressive period of the season, because of high humidity percentage. The week beginning be-ginning June S averaged four degrees i warmer, with three days showing a maxi- mum temperature of 100 degrees or more, j the highest, according to the official rec-! rec-! ord of the local weather bureau, being . 101 on June 12. With the relative humidity 40 per cent, while the mercury registered a maximum 1 height of 02.2 degrees, last Friday was , the most oppressive day of the week, can- trasted with Tuesday, when the official j thermometer registered 100.9 degrees. 1 Tile humidity, however, showed a per-i per-i centage of only 16. I T"he normal temperature for summer j reaches the high point in the summer 1 curve beginning July 25, as a rule, and ends August 6. During t hese thirteen I days', according to of fi'-lal records, the mean temperature is 78. After August i 6 there comes a. normal drop of one de-I de-I gree a week, or perhaps slightly more, f Thf1 averafe hun-.:di'Ly for July is 25. The humidity rises during September-, owing ( -.o increased cloudiness, but at the same time the mercury drop?. Temperatures above normal are predicted pre-dicted for this section of I-ie country dining din-ing the next few days, with oct asional showers. |