Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-10
THE WEATHER PRESENT AND TO
COME.

The weather has been so stormy OF late as
to aiHA 1ha-snhianLnaaEa-thsp eaIageep iiptsE1
10Th, accompanied as it was by remarks bic sun
spots, was n notable occurrence. Those
lambert fres, cleaning pale and silent mid
the observant stars, their cleaning shafts
bodipg DER the swe-struck earth," and which
were accompanied by a magnetic storm that
paralyzed our instruments and made those
of Europe culver in strange sympathy, in
dictated that not only our earth, but the
whole system of which it is part were pro-
foundry agitated.. Cyclones and monsrous
hail-stones have added destructive terrors to
the other phenomena, and the unclaimed
Winds careering in desperate race, have filled
whole districts with terror and destruction
As we write the red lightning glares angrily
from the sable canopy of clouds that float
overhead in murky gloom, and the sharp
thunder with crashing vibrations startles the
most apathetic. Naturally the question is
asked, what will the effec. of this condition
of things be upon the crops? How will the
young corn and cotton, and the fields
of waving oats and wheat stand
the rough blasts and the drench-
ing rains that beat upon the ground
with stormy fury? The news OF the crops as
we carefully collect and report them in the
APPEAL from the journals of the country
around us, are, with few exec 9tions, of the
most encouraging character. The "cold
spelp that in April did much dana ge in the
country just north of us, from Delaware to
the banks of the Mississippi in Illinois,
caused only slight loss south of Cairo Since
then some cold nights have turned the corn
yellow, but milder temperature succeeding
has restored it to vigor. In many places the
cotton plant put early in the ground has had
its tender leaves killed by the cool harsh at
1nospheric influences, and transplanting has
been necessary. Cut-worms have ravaged
the fields in some spots so as to compel the
same laborious process in the case Of corr.
The beating rains of the storms just now
prevalent may adj TO the embarrassment of
the farmer, and certainly these cross inhu-
ences succeeding the loss from drouth last
year are calculated to arouse anxiety. The
popular weather seer, Yennor, has no conso-
lation TO give in this state of things. His
forecast for last week told of ''cool nights up
TO the 9th, when a change is likely to be ex-
the present week, of which the predictor sage,
beginning with Sunday, May 9TH: "Miserable
weather, followed by gen orally warmer con-
ditions during the week, with storms in some
of the western sections. There may be brief |
intervals of hot weather. rains again toward |
the close of the week and stormy weather" |
For the next week Vennor's indications are
no less discouraging; he describes its weather |
as bleak, and wet, and variable, but more |
settled and decidedly hot weather in some |
portions of the United States toward the con- |
clusion of the week. During the rema inder |
of the month we find mentioned severe hail, |
thunder, wind-storms, unsettled, unsum-
merlike, cold, bleak, backward, heavy rains,
and injury done to vegetation and crops, |
with ,"snow furries' in the north Speak |
ing of May generally. Vennor says it will
usher in the cool and very wet summer of |
1882; rain, rain, rain in nearly all sections; |
May will enter cold and end cold and wet, |
with warm period about the 10th and ! 1th.
In the April number of his monthly weather
bnlletin Vennor said: "April may shOwe7i
but May viii pou-with rain.
As we look over the whole matter we think
we have little to expect in friendly way
from the approaching summer OF 1882, but
much the reverse. May it prove that we
have been mistaken" All this is not very [
consolatory to farmer or merchant, both of
whom are hoping that a good harvest this
year will compensate for the losses of last.