Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-17
IOTlIEd BLHSTS.
TIE WIND AND RAIN STORM
Or SATURDAY NIGHT.
A Gale from the Southeast that Travelled
Forty Miles an Hour But No
Damage Reported.

Saturday nights storm was one of the
fiercest ever experienced in this vicinity.
The southeast wind increased in force all
the evening, and by midnight was blowing
q perfect gale. AS the night advanced the
velocity Of the wind increased, and rain
fell in torrents. The wind fairly howled as
it swept up over the plains, and caused
firmly built frame houses in the city to
culver and shake. 1t came in fitful gusts.
or waves, and for some seconds before one
of these blasts would strike its approach
was signaled by an ominous roaring sound,
causing the occupants of unsteady build
ings considerable nervousness. 1t was ex-
pected that the morning would reveal the
wreck of more or less of the weaker struc.
lures and the downfall of some of the
giant pines and cypress trees in the Capitol
Park; but fortunately no disasters were
visible when the sun rose bright and
warm, and none have been reported
Signal Observer Barwick reports his OBJ
servations OF the storm and weather of
Saturday night and yesterday as follows:
The rainfall from Saturday night at 5
o'clock 10 A. NJ Sunday was .26 of an
inch, and from Sunday at 5 A. NJ. TO about
10 A. NJ. the amount was 80 of an inch
showing the heaviest precipitation to have
been during yesterday morning.
The barometer has huctuated up and
down in most unstable manner. For in
stance, at a. NJ on Saturday it recorded
3003 inches; al P. NJ. 1913; at A. NJ. yes
terday % IS inches, and at o'clock last
evening 1918. This shows fall on Satur-
day of "a of an inch, 81 of an inch on
Saturday night, and then a rise yesterday
of 20 of an inch. All these changes are
abnormal because great; change in eight
hours should not be more than from .0S to
II OF an inch. Such rapid changes in the
barometical conditions of the atmosphere
whether up or down, is rather poor sign
for settled weather.
The total rainfall for the storm was / %
inches, making for thit year 81 inches,
8 "a inches TO the LIST day of March last
year.
The average rainfall for February, as de-
duced from a record of forty years, is 2.77
inches. This month, therefore, has now
about l So inches less than the average
precipitation for the entire month.
The average for the season up TO March
1st, as deduced from q record of forty years,
is IA 40 inches. This shows the present
seasons rainfall TO be 10 46 inches above
the seasons average.
The highest and lowest temperature yes
terday was 81 and 400 The temperature
at 5 A. N. and P. NJ. was 4So and 46o,
respectively. The highest and lowest one
year ago yesterday was 500 and $50. The
highest and lowest one year ago to-day
was $50 and SO, and the weather clear and
cold.
The velocity of the wind in this city dur
ing Saturday night and yesterday morning
was between thirty-six and forty miles an
hour.
The rainfall at Red Bluff during the
storm was over one and one-half inches,
with high winds of thirty six miles per
hour. No reports have been received from
Oregon, the line being down.
About o'clock last evening there was
sharp hail-storm, lasting for several min
utss, and between that hour and midnight
few light showers of rain fell.
The heavens were very black at mid
night, and The indications pointed to an
other heavy storm.