Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-11
WEATHER REPORTS.
The Papers in the South F.epress the
weather News.

Weather News.
Sergeant Barwick, of the Signal Service
station in this city, in a communication to
this paper, dated last evening, says 81 am
in receipt of letter. from Santa Barbara
yesterday evening, dated the 9th, from MIR.
Vail, the Voluntary Signal Service Observer
at that place, an which be says We have
had very e,avy rain lately-over eight IN
ches since Christmas-and now it is cold,
800 last Aight might of Sth and 9th), with
frost ard ice. The mountain tops after the
rain Were white with snow or sleet, do
not know which, as nobody went up TO see.
My tomato vines that are three or tour
years old, were badly damaged last night
might of Sth and 9TH. Caladiums (ele-
plants earl look sad, and even nastur-
tiums, except under trees, were laid nat.
The San Francisco Examiner of yesterday,
in its San Diego correspondence, says
The weather has been unusually cold here
for the past week, and for the last two
nights the mercury has dropped below the
freezing point. Ice one-half Of an inch
thick has formed in the streets, and 1t is
freezing cold to-night might of Sth and 9th).
This unusually cold snap is mostly due to
the immense fall of snow in the Cuayamuca
and San Bernardino mountains. Residents
of Campo and Cuayamuca, who have Just
reached this city, report the snow from TWO
to five feet deep on a level in the mountai
region, and state that large quantities OF
stock have been caught in the mountains,
and that food is scarce. Several large herds
are known 10 be perishing in the snow
THE above quotations refer to the cold
spell on the same day and at widely differ
ent points. | insert them here to show the
people of the Central California citrus belt
that ice one-half an inch thick formed at
San Diego. although no temperatures are
given. The minimum temperature at
Sacramento was 90 Oh Sunday, and
was scant half-inch in a tue
fully exposed on the roof of the Signal
Office building. If it takes Signal Serv-
ice temperature of 24o above zero to form
ice one-half inch thick in this city, then
how near the same temperature must be
! recorded in San Diego to produce the same
results? In Sacramento on Saturday morn
ing ice was four tenths of an inch; min
imum temperature go; Sunday morning,
ice five-tenths or half an inch thick, and
minimum temperature 24o; Monday morn
ing, ice four-tenths of an inch and min
imum temperature 25o; Tuesday (yester-
day morning, ice three-tenths of an inch
thick and minimum temperature 30. ]
must congratulate the daily papers
of Sacramento and the Marysville
appeal as having more news regarding the
temperature during our cold spell in one of
their issues than can be found in an entire
weeks daily edition of any paper from San
Diego or Los Angeles, and also from San
Francisco, by such full and honest reports
of the weather, whether it may be cold or
hot, speaks well for the judgment of the
management of the papers mentioned
above. Send Sacramento RECORD UNION
East along with San Diego and Los An
geles paper, and the difference could and
would be readily noticed, and the paper
that is not afraid to parade its weather
under all conditions and at any time of
the year would be looked upon as the most
reliable and trustworthy authority. l
speak from knowledge learned from letters
from Eastern people.
THE average Signal Service temperature
yesterday was 80, being 90 colder than
the normal for that day. The highest and
lowest temperature was 40 and 90, with
gentle southerly winds and clear, pleasant
weather.
The highest temperature yesterday (460l
was higher than its bee since the Sd,
when it was $50. The maximum and
highest was 45o on the 4th, 400 on the 9Th,
400 on the 9th, 400 on the 18th, $50 on the
Sth, 440 on the 9th and 400 yesterday,
which is the warmest day we have had for
o week or more