Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-20
THE WEATHER SPRING SHOWERS :
FRoSTs.

For soma time past the weather has been
eonewhAt cold and the sky mostly clear.
Sacramento has been very fortunate this
season il escaping from the disastrous frosts
that have visited other parts of the State. but
tsere has been some, however. Friday morn
| ing last the thermometer was down to So at
A. NJ, with heavy white frost. Saturday
at 5 A. N. it was DOM to 81, and Sunday at
5A. N. 37a-Hhite frost both mornings. No
damage has resulted to fruit, but down the
river potatoes ere noticsd TO be little wilted,
but no great damage has been done. The last
damaging frost in April was on April 6, 1875,
when the Thermometer was down TO "a, and
ell the fruit was destroyed here, and every
part Of the State suffered. In Los Angeles
county ice formed quarter OF an inch. The
chances for damaging frost this season may
be said TO be past.
At an early hour yesterday morning rain
began falling, and during the day yesterday
showers Of rain ard CLEANS Of sunshine al
ternased, with occasionally both at once.
Sergeant BsrSick, of the Signal Service,
made the f1lloSing report last evening The
rainfall for the present storm up to s o'clock
last night was 81 Of an inch, making "a of
an inch for the month, Ga inches for the
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rainfall for 1877 s TO sn equal date was 24.69
inches; season Of 1889. 49, % inches
1880, 1898 inches; 1891, 26 OF inches
1872 Is " inches. Hae average precipita-
ton by pluVismetrieal measurement for the
past Six year,, up 10 and including the 10Th
day OF April Of each year, is
1916 inches; leavieg the present sea-
son 1888 inches less than the average.
By thsS P. VI weather reports last night it is
learned that the storm has reached Les An
geles, and during the eight hours preceding
taere had been 04 of au inch Of moisture pre-
cipitated there, aud % of an inch at Visalia,
which il very near as much as has fallen
during the storm at this point, and which
will be very gratifying news to the
Sacramentans having stock ranges in
that vicinity. There is good prospect
of more rain OF that point, for it was
raining ct P. NJ. at Los Angeles. San Fran
cisco, Sacramento and Red Bluff. The ba-
rometer was falling rapidly st Portland and
RossbuTg, and was generally falling slowly
south to San Diego, excepting Red Bluff and
Visalis, at which points it was slowly rising.
The wind was north at Olympia, northwest
at Portland, Rossburg and Los Angeles, west
at San Francisco, southwest at San Diego
and Sacramento, south at Red Bluff and east
at Visalia. The wind velocity was generally
fresh to brisk-that is, in velocity from eight
to eighteen miles per hour-and the weather
ranging from cloudy to threatening and light
rain along the entire Pacific coast, with snow
in the mountains. The total rainfall at esch
Signal Service station for twenty-four hours
is: For Olympus, 02 of an inch Portland,
80 Of sn inch; Roseburg, 40 of an inch
Red Bluff, &c of an inch Sacramento, 81 of
an inch; San Francisco, .76 of an inch; vi.
sslia, 20 of an inch /; Los Angeles, "a Of an
inch; none at Ssn Diego, although the
weather was cloudy at that point.
Press dispatches received at this office yes
terdsy from HOLSTER, Hanford, Sonoms,
San Luis Obispo, Bakersfield, Salinas, Span
ishtown, San Jose, Naps, Redding. Prince. |
ton, Stockton, Santa Cruz, Marysville, Peta- |
luna, Watsonville, 0rland, Upper Lake, |
Placerville, Plessanton, Grass Valley, Santa
Rosa, Martinez and Santa Barbara show that |
it has been raining at all these points, except |
in the mountain towns, where a warm snow |
has fallen. The reports on crops from the |
various places are very favorable, and gen.