Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 11 February 2005

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The climate of the county, like that of Ohio and a great part of the United States, is one of extremes. The extremes are of temperature rather than of moisture, as the rains fall usually at all seasons in sufficient quantities for the

The extremes of temperature marked by the thermometer are 30° below zero, and 103 1/2° above zero F. It is rare for the mercury to fall 16° below zero, or to rise above 98° The mean annual temperature is about 52°, or 2° lower than that of Cincinnati.

The mean annual precipitation of rain and melted snow cannot be far from forty-two inches. More rain falls in a series of years in June than in any other month, and less in September. The moisture which gives fertility to the Ohio Valley comes chiefly from (he Gulf of Mexico and the winds from the southwest are most likely to be rain-producing. The winds from western directions predominate far above all others, those from the southwest being the most frequent, the northwest next and the southeast next. The least frequent winds are from the north. A register kept by Mr. J. H. Jackson in the hills of Cincinnati, for thirty-five years from 1814 to 1849, shows that the average annual winds at noon were as follows: