Identifier: alamedaalamedaco00alam (find matches)
Title: Alameda, Alameda Co., California, situated on the eastern shore of the Bay of San Francisco. A city of homes. Being a brief description of the beauties of Alameda, and its surroundings on land and water
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Alameda (Calif.). Board of Trade
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Publisher: (Alameda, Calif.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n Francisco. In this climate thereis neither fervid scorching heat, nor chilling, depressing cold. Laborpursues its toil with interesting vigor, and here the human mindfinds the highest expression of its power. No country in the worldpossesses the equal physical conformation of the earth to producesuch a superb climate as comes within the influence of the oceanwinds which pour in unstinted through the Golden Gate. These winds sometimes blow strong, and in winter are occa-sionally cool, but Alameda is so situated as to be sheltered fromthe unpleasant features, if there are any, of the winter winds. Theocean winds, modified and warmed by the Japan current, after theyreach the bay, are deflected, mostly to the north, up the Sacra-mento Valley, and reach with a lessened force a distance of aboutone hundred miles. Where the influence of the trade winds is notfelt, we have an almost tropical climate, which permits oranges tobe grown as far north as Oroville, and possibly further, and on the
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east slope of the Coast Range. Casually looking at the map, onewould suppose that Alameda lies in the direct course of the tradewinds, but this is only apparently so. As we said before, the tend-ency, in fact the constant course, of the trade winds is to the north-ward after passing through the Golden Gate. Alameda lies aboutsix miles south of the direct trend of the wind, and gets generallybut the fringe of the current. She has also the protecting shelterof the Coast Range of mountains, ranging south of San Francisco,which gives her the gentle warmth of the east slope of the range.Her climate is probably 10° warmer than that of San Francisco,either in winter or summer. Often when the fog-horn outside the Golden Gate is moaningits warning tone, Alameda is bathed in generous sunshine. General Chipman writes in an article on the Economic Valueof Climate as follows: There is nothing so misleading as tablesof mean temperatures. For example, the mean annual tempera-ture of San Francisco,

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