Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-06-07
COOL slcRA xEREo.

To speak Of this city FOR the past few days
as cool Sacramento would seem Ike para
doxical expression, bat when this city
weather is compared with other places on the
coast IL becomes true. The maximum tenn.
perature in Sacramento on Tuesday was SO,
and yesterday 9s5'. From dispatches re-
ceived ct the REooRD-USIoS ofics the tenn
psrsture in various places throughout the
State il learned. as follows Cloverdale, 1lO';
Sonorns. 1852: CenterTilie, 1867; Santa Rose,
1922. Petaluuns, 10l'; st. Helena, 1922; San
jose. IO2s; Naps. 1902; Santa Cruz, 1o0'; Sa-
linas, l0I'; oakland. 1907; Alameds,
fOZ'; AlargsyilIe, 1922; Yisalia, 1037;
Davisyille. l0I'; Folsom, 1902; Stockton,
99'. In San Francisco the Signal Service
barometer. il q cool and well ventilated
place, registered So, while On the streets snd
il offices the temperature varied from 81 to
1902. Some Of the asphaltum sidewalks be-
came so soft from the rays OF the sun tina.
pedestrians we're compelled 70 move in the
middle Of the stree.s. A rumor has reached
this city that ths suns rays reflected from
the waters of the bag az tbs end OF Long
wharf, Oakland. go intensified the heat that
the anchor Of a vessel moorsd to the wharf
began 0 melt, and went into the water dgip,
drip, drip, during the afternoon yesterday.
The heat throughout the State Is something
unprecedented for this season Of the year,
and il many places hss never been exceeded
il any season. Sergeant Barwick, from the
records Of the Signal Service ofise, has pre-.
pared the following regarding the present aed
past hot weather:
The north wind, ike the poor and needy,
we still have with az, for it hiss been blowing
steadily from the nor.h-Dorthwest for the
past sixty hours. whils 81 P. ~ 1t wss
passing over this station ct the rate Of
eleven miles per hour. During tie sixty hour;
the wind has been blowing from the north
snd northwest there has heen the large
amount Of 1,0l7 miles of understanding
and heat-produciag wind passing over this
city, making az average rate Of sixteen mile
per hour during thu sixty hours OF eontinu-
ity, reaching maximum velocity OF about
thirty.one miles per hour. This north wind
has continued 30 long now that the dFypess
Of it is more and more psrceptibiy
felt during each and every hour Of its con-
tinusncs, for the relative amount OF moisture
in the atmosphere on the morning Of the 4th
ct the a N. obserystion, at the commence
ment Of the norther. was 30 per cent. Of sat-
uration. allowing 100 per cent. for complete
saturstioD, going down to "a per cent. st P.
N. same day 9TH. Now at the a. N. OBJ
serVation Of the 9TH the relative amount Of
moisture was only II FER cent.-very little
more than il was ct the ?. N. observation
OF the 4sh while on the 9th, at the a. NJ.
observation. the relative amount of moisture
was 50, an Increase of s per cent. over the
A. NJ observation of the 9Th. but going down
at4P. N. Of the G b to 2S per cent, the
lowest amount recorded during the blow. Il
has been said by persons well informed
that the drying winds of California come
directly from the north but l must say that
my experience from actual observation leads
me to say and believe that the direct north
west wind is somewhat dryer than the direct
north wind, as dedueed from the anomcscope
or wind vRne in use at the United States
Signal Office in this city, which is adjusted to
the true meridian, while common or ordinary
wind vanes are not. In nearly or quite all
of my observations OF the winds direction
leads me to think that they Increase in dry.
ness from the southwest to the northwest,
and slightly increases in moisture to the
north, and more rapidly as they veer to the
easterly point Of the compass, which is point
that is recorded very few times in the
course of the taking of the 1926 observation.
during the twelve calendar months that 60 to
make up the year of 365 days. /, for one,
must say that feel more buoysnt and have
le5s OF that tired feeling or one Of lassitude
that is 30 often felt on a hot day with a
southsrly breeze. 1t reminds one very
forcibly OF the drying, but bracing, hot south
west winds of Colorado. have often seen
the difference between the temperature of the
air and the temperature of the wet bulb Their
momster Tor thermometer whose bulb is
kept constantly wet eli the time), so great
that the relative humidity or relative amount
Of moisture in the air. which is ascsrtained
by these Instruments, that it would have to
be expressed by zero 10y; thati IL, the amount
was so very very email that the best and most
scientific instruments, figuring and calculat-
ing, failed to detect more than 8 very light
trace indeed Of aqueous vspor, which is the
life Of growing cereals, fruits, etc, for ia
Colorado it is irrigste or starve. No de-
pendence can be put on the rains for it rains
more or less there throughout the entire year
bus not enough, except in the mountains, to
raise anything whatever. But here in Cali
fornis too much northwest wind is detri-
ment rather than a help. LAST night, or the
night of the 5th and 9th, was the second
hottest night ever experienced in Sacramento.
The first occurred in August, 1879, when the
Thermometer only fell to 70 degrees, and the
night OF June 9TH and 9th it fell to us de-
grees.