Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-21
A DELIGHTFUL DISPENSATION.

California winter weather has got
back into its normal line of conduct. In
the ten years. term about to close there
have been meteorological developments
entirely out OF the usual run OF things.
In that period a large majority of the
winters have been wet beyond all
former experience. Some of the seasons
have been on the verge OF genuine
deluge that might reasonably recall the
original Noachian dispensation. Three
out of the ten years were wet beyond
any possible theory of benefit to the in
terests of the country. That they did
much injury to us is beyond dispute.
Climatic refugees who came here in
order to escape the extremes OF eastern
winters were naturally disappointed to
find lowering skies, pouring rains,
streets full of slush and fields submerged
under sea of water. 1t is of little
avail under such circumstances 10 pro-
test that such a dispensation is unusual.
The tourist sets that down as the
pIONoIUldl hullCudusldh poiCy "a
natives who desire to i'm
press the stranger with an
agreeable sense of the advantages of the
section. And it was not only the rain
in torrents that rendered the semi-trop-
les less tropical than their normal state.
The winters have been unusually cold
as the result of so much snow on the
surrounding mountains. To be sure
there are advantages resulting from
heavy rains, such as supplying the wa
ter sources with copious reserves for ir-
rigation; but the thing was carried to
an extreme by the clerk of the weather
and the injury was more than the good.
Many people who passed portions of
some OF these wet winters here are back
in the east still telling their friends not
on any account to ever put foot in
Southern California.
Well, surely the winter, in the very
midst of which we now are, will satisfy
the most fastidious. AS the Old Year
prepares to depart he can look back
upon we'll spent days amongst. us. In
the lowest, dampest bits of land in the
section there has not been breath of
frost up to this date. Not only that, but
there has been hardly one or two even
ings when fire has been desirable in
the house. The days have been abso-
lutely perfect. November developed
twenty-five days on which there was not
f1eck of cloud in the sky, and the other
five days were all but cloudless. The
record for December is almost as good
This month two light rains have fallen,
of less than two and one-half inches pre-
cipitation all told. So nicely have these
been adjusted that they quite suffice for
all agricultural needs, and will keep the
ground moist under the pending
circumstances until quite the end
of January. The temperature has
ranged at about so as the lowest
point at night, and at about 65 as the
highest point about noon. Winds have
been of the most moderate movement,
and in every imaginable respect the
weather has been perfect. Let US repeat
the hope that Southern California wealth
er has got back into its normal lines, and
that for years to come we shall have the
charming winters we all expect to see
here, with ten to fifteen inches of rain
fall descending at intervals of month
between, and lasting for day or two at
a time, while all the other days of all
the months shall be sunny bright and
warm, with balminess in the air that
almost makes the dead rise and live.