Climate

This information was first published in 1888:

THE CLIMATE.

THE sections of country that are favored with a better climate than Charlotte are indeed few. The summers are made pleasant by the prevailing winds from the mountains, and the winters are generally open and mild. Building operations can be carried on all winter. The cold snaps, which are bound to visit every locality, here very rarely last more than two days at a time, and it is only once in about five years that ice forms sufficiently thick to afford the young people a chance to delight in the pleasures of skating. Flowers bloom out of doors almost the year round, and the truck gardens are green in February. The winters are generally marked by two or three light snow falls. A snow three inches deep is considered a heavy one in this section. Frost is seldom known between April 1 and November 1. The best idea that can be given of the climate here, and at the same time the most accurate one, is to be secured from the records of the United States signal station at this place. The station was established here in 1879, and the following table is taken, through the courtesy of Sergeant Barry, from the official records of the station:

A more equable temperature cannot be found in the Southern States. The figures speak for themselves, and it would be superfluous to elaborate upon them.