The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1891-05-23
CLIMATIC CONDITIONS.
Unusually Cold and Snowy Weather
Beyond the Rockies.
Delightful Here in the Sacramento
Va1ley-Lfeutenant Finley's
Weekly Review.

The Signal Service temperatures at
A. NJ. and P. NJ. yesterday were $50 and
1872 while the highest and lowest were 75o
and 530, with brisk southerly winds and
a partly clouded sky.
The barometrical readings at A. NJ.
and P. NJ. were 30.021 and 10000 inches,
showing a steady and almost stationary
barometer.
The highest and lowest temperature one
year ago yesterday were 800 and $50, and
one year ago to-day 900 and Go.
The snow-storm at Cheyenne on the
21st still continued yesterday morning,
and no doubt makes one of the greatest
snow-storms on record for so late in the
season, outside the SUBMITS of the lofty
peaks of the Rocky Mountains. There
was over two feet of snow fell in Denver
City, and something over three feet in
Cheyenne. Therefore, the storm just
passed may be considered rather phenom-
email. Although it brought no rain in
this part Of the State, it did in Southern
California.
The barometer on the 25th reached such
n low point in this city for May-being
the third time in fourteen years that it
reached such low point-it being SO
much lower here than either in San
Francisco or Red Bluff, that Sergeant
Barwick's reports received did not cover
over country enough to explain the phe-
nomena. He therefore wrote to Lieuten-
ant Finley, the indication officer at San
francisco, who receives reports from
nearly all points west of the Missouri
River and north of Texas.
The following Is very interesting &C
count given Of the extensive cyclone or
storm movement Of few days ago by
Lieutenant Finley, and shows how and
why we have northerly winds. 1t is
well worth reading, being both interest
ing and instructive:
ION the 18th inst. a large cyclonic dis
turbance appeared in Montana, having
moved eastward over British Columbia
on the 18th and 10th. The disturbance
has moved very slowly eastward and is
Minnesota. The southwest quadrant
of this great disturbance extends
westward into Southern California;
in fact decidedly affects the atmos-
pheric pressure over California,
Nevada and Arizona. Since the 18th an
anti-cyclone of marked intensity has pre-
vailed over Oregon and Washington and
the country to the nOrthward, giving
rise to continued northerly winds as far
south as central California.
''This anti-cyclone began to move east
ward yesterday morning, the Goth, and
attending this movement there developed
cold wave with temperatures at freez-
| ing and below in Montana, idaho and
| northwestern Washington. With this
disposition of atmospheric pressure north
and south, there is naturally high gradi-
ent between Central and Southern Cali
| fornia and the north Pacific region. This
| relation has given rise to the high winds
| in the past few days and the cold wave
! which is now moving southwark in Ne
|
THE present weather conditions, which
are peculiar and very interesting, clearly
| illustrate the fact that the weather of any
! place is controlled by conditions hun
| dreds of miles away from it, and that To-
cal evidence is extremely unsatisfactory
to base meteorological argument upon"