Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-06-10
Harvest weather I'm san Joaquin.


The uninterruptedly good harvest
weather in Southern California is in
strong contrast with that in the San
Joaquin valley, as appears by the follow
ing extracts:
The Modesto Ne,os says; Thursday
night and the night before the skies TO
the south seemed in gloom. A frown,
dark and threatening, oyershadowed the
south. Every little while the gloomy
sight was lightened up by the sudden
and fierce flash of lightning, and anon
could be heard the distant rumbling OF
thunder, something seldom heard in our
strange country. The elements were at
war. Old Jove was on his ear. The
| fair attendants on his court wept, and
different parts Of MERGED, Fresno and
Tulare county suffered in consequence.
The rain clouds seemed to be in strips,
aud the clerk of the weather seemed in
clined to settle the dust in strips as tho
he expected parade of some kind, and
in these strips he just pulled the bottom
out of the clouds and let her pour out
She poured From four to six miles
east Of MERGED the storm struck like a
tornado. The rain came down in sheets
precipitating, at least, one inch Of
water in fifteen minutes. The strip was
three miles in width through solid
body of wheat. The grain and mach
hay is badly damaged.
The Fresno Erpositor says; s'Sharp
showers of rain fell in different parts Of
the county yesterday afternoon, and it
has been storming more or less in the
mountains for the past twenty-four
hours"
The Tulare Times has the following
about the storm of June ID: 'The ther.
mometer yesterday indicated 98 degrees,
and the weather was 90 close and sultry
that the heat was unusually oppressive.
Yesterday afternoon the sky was almost
completely overcast with dark and
heavy clouds, and the sound Of thunder
indicated the coming of the storm king.
Now and then there were vivid flashes
of lightning, but no rain fell in
lthia city. In the evening, between
half past six and seven o'clock
there was heavy wind. 1t soon died
away, however. and was succeeded by
an almost perfect calm. In other paris
of the country there were heavy showers
of rain. L. d. Whit, who drives a
wagon for Sam Hall, the butcher, says
that yesterday afternoon, as he was oa
his way TO town from Tnle river. he was
Iovertaken In the neighborhood of the Is
Mile House by heavy shower. 1t be-
gan raining at Z o'clock and continued
without cessation for twenty minutes.
The downfall was so oopious that he had
to get out of the wagon and hold his
horses, which had become alarmed. The
road in short time was flooded with
water.
/ A. J. Atwell, who came down from
the mountains yesterday evening. re-
ports . heavy rain at his Retreat, just
on this side of Mineral King.
Ia began raining on Tuesday
Inight, and the downpour was
40 heavy that it reminded him of a
regular New York thunder storm. 1t
Irained very hard for about two hours.
He says that yesterday, in coming
homo, Il rained continuously from Cain
Flat to Three Rivers. The Judge was
refreshed, not only by the pure. pearly
rain drops, falling like angels tears upon
his hosry head. but by the grand spec
tacls of the snow which fell in large
quantities on the higher peaks of the
Sierras."
Il The temperature in Los Angeles has,
during the harvest so far, ranged from
52' to S3', with no rain or sign of rain.
A cool mist has prevailed every morning
of late, and has been of great advantage
to the farmers who were baling hay, as
it made the straw more flexible than IT
would be in clear weather.
The farmers of Los Angeles are to be
congratulated in having no storms to
mar their business in securing 400, 900
acres Of hay and grain in fine condition.
The skies are bright and winds are fair.