The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-10
In AND ABOUT THE CITY.
THE RAIN COMES AGAIN.
A Heavy Shower Falls on Parched Up
Savannah.

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Savannah got her rain yesterday. i
was a good one, and people got out of sick
beds to see the big drops fall. The morning
was hot and sultry, and church goers did 6
good deal of tanning. The air was close
and not enough breeze stirred to shake
the leaves on the high water oaks il
Forsyth park Pedestrians stopped AND
fingered under the shade trees, 10th
to leave them and take the sunny sidewalk.
feople sat on the seats under the oaks until
after the dinner hour, endeav oring to get as
much comfort as possible ont of the sixth
warm Sunday. Nurses sought the parks
early to give the little ones a breath Of air
that could not be had in the house. 1t was
little that they could get out of doors, but
there was nowhere else to go.
Forsyth park was the coolest place prob
ably, but it presented a sun scorched APP
pearance, and there was little comfort to be
found there. Not enough breeze blew to
disturb the leafy boughs Of the high water
oaks, and they resembled dull pictures
rather than real trees. The busy little
sparrow tagged out aud ceased its singing
early IN the morning, and sat in the bough
OF the trees undergoing as much discom-
hture as the people who sat under the tree
wondering what had become of him. The
fountain seemed as dry as rock, and the
lakelet around it resembled a big mirror
rejecting the SUMS rays.
While all this was so, an unpretentious
cloud head apparently no larger than a
mans hat, became visible in the south west
IL was not large enough to attract much
attention, but its dilating properties were
remarkable. Just fortY-1ve minutes from
that time it grew into black thunder
cloud. The first scarcely audible rumbling
raIa 30 oil of AL,N
the people flying to the windows to see
where it came from. The little birds
chirped in the tree tops and the winds
came in delightful gusts causing the leaves
to hiss and play. The sun hid his face be-
hind the clouds that began to overcast the
heavens and the humid atmosphere fore
warned the nurses that their charges might
get wet and they hurried home with them.
Signal Observer Won Hermann sat in
his office noting the antics of the new
triple self register. The wind rapidly in
creased its velocity from eight to nearly
twenty miles an hour, the temperature sud
denly dropped from So TO 67' and the
barometer ran up to go IA. The observer
smiled and turning to MORNING
NEWS reporter who had climbed the
long stairs to find out what
it meant, said, THAT prediction will be YER
ified.n His words were true. The ram
came in big drops and from 4:15 o'clock
until 4:45 O'clock it poured Twice as much
rain fell in that half hour as fell during the
entire month of May. More than 20 of an
inch of rainfall was registered at the signal
station. This is just .2l lower than the
rainfall for the entire month of June, in 1881,
which was itself a good rainfall.
The highest rainfall for June since the
establishment of the station, nearly twenty
years ago, is 1879 inches, which was in 1876.
The lowest is o. In the Savan-
nah district the following stations re-
ported rain yesterday: Savannah 20,
Fort Gaines IA, and Millen .01. The
rainfall for nine minutes of the time here
was so of an inch, which is regarded as
being extraordinarily heavy. The Atlanta
district reported an average of ,25; Mem
phis So Montgomery 80, New Orleans
81, Vicksburg .95, and Wilmington &c of
an inch.
The night signal service reports show that
there is a storm of moderate intensity. CEN
trail in the interior of Texas. Moderate
rainfall and very high temperatures are re-
ported from that section. The lowest pres
sure reported was from Palestine, lex,
where the reading was 90 so at s D. M. The
low area appears to be moving slowly in a
northeasterly direction. Moderate showers
are reported from nearly ever state in the
south, 1t having rained heavily at several
stations. Among the heaviest are Pensa.
cola LAO and Charlotte los.
The barometer is very high in the north
west and the temperature is considerably
below the normal. A moderate storm is
central off the great lakes and moderate
rains are reported in New York, Pennsyl-
vania and the states bordering on the
lakes. The New England states also report
rain The forecast for Georgia to-day is
that light showers will prevail, with slightly
warmer weather and generally southerly
winds.