Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-05-18
WEATHER CROP BULLETIN
Of the Kansas Weather Service. in
Cooperation With the u. S. Signal
Service, for the Week Ending May
II. 1880.


Co-Operation With the u. s. Signal
Service, for the Week Ending May
II. 1880.
PRECIPITATION.
The excess this week covers generally the
central counties east of Logan, Wichita and
Kearney county. In The southern and west.
ern tier no rain fell, and but little in the
northern. The largest excess occurs in Lin.
coin and Ellsworth, in Lane extending acros:
into Trego and around Hutchinson in Reno
where two inches and upward fell An inch
and q half in Ness, Rush, Lyon, Usage
and northern part of Coffey, the rainfall
diminishing thence to the east line of the
state. On the 9Th some hail tell in Edwards,
Pawnee and Reno, on the 9Th, in Cloud,
in Haskell, the hail stones in this last meas
uriny as high as nine inches in Cir
conference and weighing, after the storm,
from two to two and three-quarters ounces.
In Potowatomie on the 9Th, two belts of very
heavy rain about eight miles apart occurred
in the evening, each belt about one and one
half miles in width, the belts running parallel
and toward th, northeast.
TEMPERATURE AND SUNSHINE.
In the northern, northeastern, southeast
ern and southwestern counties the tempera-
ture has ranged slightly below the normal,
in the eastern and central about normal
viii IN the southern, western and north
western it has been above. In the counties
of the eastern division the amount of sun
shine has ranged from an average to q de-
fciency while over the rest of the state an
excess is reported.
strong southerly wind on 4th, 9Th and
9Th is reported from all sections of the state.
The self registering apparatus at the central
station showed an hourly movement on the
4th, after 8 a. M, from sixteen to twenty
six miles per hour; on the 9th from twenty
three to thirty-n ne, and on the 9Th from
thirty to fifty. After Z q. m. of the 9Th it
went above forty per hour and staid at and
above those figures until l q. m. of the 9TH.
The strong wind of the 9Th Influenced veg
citation more than all other elements COM
bined. Although its relative humidity
ranged from u to 80 per cent. of saturation
it hliqhted many of the leaves of fruit trees
and crane vines by abstTacting their mois-
ture so much more rapidly than it could be
restored by the circulation. The leaves
curlei up, the edges and tips turned black,
as though touched BY fire or frost, and
loose Kansas soil drifted in many plowed
fields like snow, thus clearing out the crop
in some parts of field and effectually COW
ering it in other parts. In the southern
counties, where some wheat was in bloom,
in many instances the bloom has been
Knocked of and the heads beaten around
until they present a very dilapidated appear
ance. The rains in the central and western
counties we're timely and beneficial; and the
same applies to the absence of rain in the
southern, where an opportunity for work
Was needed. Cotton planting CON-
menced in the southern tier, where straw
berries are ripe and cherries turning red.
Clover il beginning to bloom in Coffey and
will soon be cut for hay. Outside of the
wind the weather has been very beneficial.
and all crops, generally, have made rapid
growth. T. b. JENNINGS,
Assistant Signal Corps Director.