To California And Back, a book of Practical Information for Travelers to the Pacific
To California And Back, a book of Practical Information for Travelers to the Pacific
Charles Augustus Keeler
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According to the San Diego weather reports from 1875 to 1901, a period of 10,957 days, there were 10,770 during which the thermometer did not go above 80° nor below Digitized by Google Southern and Central California 137 40° Fahr. The sea breeze is a peculiarly dry cur- rent in southern California, being the descending return column of air from . the Colorado desert. During the' daytime the heated interior desert is constantly drawing in the cooler sea air, which rises on the desert and returns... to sea as an upper current, then descending and returning to laild in endless rotation. At night the direction of the current is changed, the desert air cooling more rapidly and travelling seaward as a land breeze. It is this constant circulation of desert and sea breezes which makes the climate of the coast of southern California so free from extremes, so mild, and so beneficial for persons suffering from diseases which are affected by climatic conditions. For many persons troubled with complaints of the throat and lungs the greater dryness of the interior valleys is found more bene- ficial; and even the harsh aridity of the desert may prove healthful.
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