Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-05
ALL KINDS or WEATHER.
The Programme That Was On Yes
terday-Thc Outlook for To-Day.

The Programme That Was On Yes
terday-Thc Outlook for To-Day.
The weather god did not put himself
out much yesterday to furnish specially
choice programme OF weather for the
Fourth. /. is barely possible that he,
! knowing that the national holiday would
be observed to-day, reserved his best
weather Such forethougnt would be
! highly appreciated 10y tue savannah
| Yacht club and by all who intend to cele-
| brate the signing of the famous declara-
! tion by doing no work today.
/ The weather manipulation Yesterday
/ seemed DESTROYS OF shO" lng that he Gad "A
very select repertoire Of weather. Clouds
and the sun struggled good part OF tue
| morning for supremacy and "A light breeze
( firtcd with them both. From - degrees
early in the morning the mercury climbed
no to the $50 degree mark, with the thor
mometer in the shade. Between ana
O'Clock it began TO get brolllng not.
Tue tickle wind an OIL for little while
and oiled up big black clouds IN the
Northwest. At 2:30 the storm came down
upon the city aud the ram fell ia torrents.
More than an inch Of water tell during
the afternoon, and the street cleaning de-
partment was saved sOme work. IheTe
were Sever al nt-hh btAA5 VI ttH H'tNl '''iN'
some sharp flashes OF lightning, but the
worst OF the electrical storm was at "A
distance nom the city. A light holt en-
tered the siRnai Office by the wind Yane
rod. and there were four explosions IN
quick succession liz the crack Of a pistol
.uOt as the nuid jumped 10 a gas pipe.
4 few minutes before the rain began to
fall in the city Corp. Graham, Of toe
signal service, O3seryel II cone shaped
q 9 d
heavy rain was falling there at the time.
The cone huug below heavy cloud and
moved from the northwest to the east,
and remained in sight for i've minutes.
The cone whirled with great rapidity and
had a slight swayIng movement. 1t APP
reared TO be heavily charged with water,
and clOudburst was looked Tor mOmen-
tarily. Although the clOdd hung low, 1t
did not touch the ground. II 1t had
Beaufort county would have had
"a free bath. Ia few minutes the cone
seemed TO be drawn up into the cloud
above and it nattenod out. The pbenOm-
ena was also observed rom the roof on
the NEWS building.
Last might there was an excellent pros
pecJ for rain to-day, the signal observer
said.
The special bulletin sent out by the
Signal Service Bureau gives the condition
of the weather throughout the country
during last month. The temperature was
very near the normal in Illinois, Wiscon-
sin, Iowa, Minnesota, Dakota, Nebraska,
Colorado, + 0rida and in southern parts
OF Georlia, Alabama aud Mississippi. In
the Atlantic Coast states, as far as GeOr
eia, 1t was below the normal, as also in
the lower lake region, the Ohio Valley,
the lower part Of the Mississippi Valley
and in Tennessee. The greatest de-
partures below the normal occurred in
Massachusetts. Rhode Island, COnnecti-
cut, New YORK, Pennsylvania, New Jer-
sey, Delaware, Mary land, District Of Co
lumbia, North and south Carolina, ONO,
Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Ar
kansas. Al Washington City the temper
allure was 4 deg. below the normal for the
month.
The rainfall was deficient, i. e., below
the normal rainfall, in the New England
Stat q, and thence directly westward; it
was ID exec 40 of the normal III Maryland,
Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky,
Southern Missouri, and in all the States
southwark, except Eastern Florida. The
greatest excess occurred at Washington
City, "a inches; Lyuchburg, Va, OIL
inches; Charlotte, n. e.. 90 inches !;
Ga, 80 inches; Atlanta, Ga, A
inches; Nashville, Tenn, 80 inches /;
Chattanooga, Tenn, 3.3 inches; Memphis,
Tenn, 3 inches; Montgomery, Ala, g
inches; New Orleans, La, 3.3 inches; ;
Nicksburg, 80 inches; Little Rock, Ark,
60 inches. The greatest deficiency OF
rainfall occurred in Ohio Northern Hi
nois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska. Dakota,
Maine and Michigan. Des Moines had
the greatest deficiency, 50 inches ;
Omaha had 80 inches; Davenport, As
inches; Chicago, 80 inches; Cleveland,
3.4 inches; EsstpOrt, "a inches; Boston,
"a inches. Frosts were reported as hav-
ing occurred in Wisconsin in the early
part of the month. Light snow fell on
Mount Washington on June Is.