The record-union., 1891-02-22
HOVLING STORMS.
The Barometer Lower Than 1t Has
Been in Fourteen Years.
A Gale That Blew Forty Miles Per
Hour-The Storm on the
Mountains.

The winds howled and whistled over
the city yesterday afternoon, increasing
to gale at night, while rain fell at inter-
walls. 1t was regular March storm that
had apparently lost its time-card and ar
rived sooner than the weather schedule
called for.
The storm prevailed in the higher alti-
tude on the Sierra Neyadas last night,
along the line of the Central Pacific Rail
| road, and according to reports received at
the railroad office in this city, snow was
falling heavily above Blue Canyon.
| Alfalfa, Shady Run, Dutch Flat, ColfaX
| and other stations west of Blue Conyon,
the operators reported that it was raining
and blowing.
| Both the West-bound overland and the
Oregon Express were on regular time,
and no detentions are looked for.
The barometer, according to the Signal
Service reports, began to fall rapidly
during Friday night. The reading of
| that instrument at p. NJ. on Friday
was 30.l0 inches, and at a. II. yesterday
it had fallen to 29.95 inches, q fall of .l5 of
an inch in twelve hours, accompanied by
cloudy and threatening weather. 1t
continued falling rapidly al day yester-
day, accompanied by light rain, and dur
ing the afternoon high southorly winds
prevailed.
The barometer at p. II. had fallen to
29.54 inches. fall Of al of an inch in
! twelve hours, which is an unprecedented
fall i'll such short time, in record of
fourteen years. Usually a fall Of over
| One-quarter of an inch in twenty-four
hours is harbinger of danger The fall
yesterday for the twenty-four hours end
ing at p. NJ. was so lover one-half) Of an
inch, but the most rapid fail was during
| tho Il 1ttnrnnnn anI tn INniln
the southerly wind was blowing in this
city from thirty to forty miles per hour,
the velocity at Red Bluff at the same
time was only from eight to ten miles per
hour, with rain falling.
The amount Of precipitation at p NJ.
yesterday was .26 Of inch, making 7.66
inches for this season, as against 27.57
inches to an equal date last season.
The precipitation this season was dis
tributodssas follows: September, 1890, so
OF an inch: October, trace; November,
nothing; December, 3. "a inches; January
1891, .53 of an an inch and February (up
to and including the P. NJ. oberserya-
ton yesterday 2.99 inches, making as
above, 1866 inches. The total rainfall for
the month OF February, one year ago,
was 4.06 inches.
Ifthis storm produces as much rain as
the one of the 18th, it will then give more
than was precipitated in the entire
month OF February of last year.
The temperature ut . A. NJ. and 5 P. NJ.
yesterday was 40 and 47o, while the
highest and lowest was $50 and 40o. The
highest and lowest one year ago yester-
day was 49o and 370, with .04 of an inch
of rain, and one year ago to-day 4So and
340 with .02 OF an inch of precipitation.
The barometrical readings at 5 \. III and
5 p. NJ. yesterday were 1896 and 2954
inches, respectively. The barometer was
still falling, and read at 1880 29.46 inches,
i, "A 4
was bowling along at velocity of from
"a TO 50 miles per hour, attaining at times
a maximum velocity as high as 40 miles
per hour.
This appears to be more of wind than
a rain-storm, for from D p. NJ to S p. NJ. last
night there was but .02 of an inch of rain
precipitated, making .2S of an inch for
yesterday, UP to the latter hour, and 7.6S
| inches for the season.
The lowest barometer readings in IA years
in this city was 1892 inches Gn January,
1856, while the lowest up to 8 p. NJ. last
night was about 29.45 inches. The lowest
on the Sd of last December was 29.42
inches. There are good prospects that
the present low readings will continue 10
decrease until the thermometer falls al
most as low as the lowest ever before
recorded in this city.
The Signal Service reports at 5 o'clock
last evening were as follows: Barometer
reading at Olympia, 1858 inches; Walla
Walla, 29.64; Spokane Falls, 29.70; Port
land, 2954; Roseburg, 29.46; Red Bluff,
1854, and Sacramento, 29.54 inches. The
lowest is at Roseburg and the highest at
Walla Walla and Red Bluff, although the
highest readings is low barometer
The direction and velocity of the wind
is as follows: Olympia, northeast, miles
, per hour and cloudy; Walla Walla, north,
light winds and cloudy; Spokane Falls,
southwest, miles and showing; Fort
Candy, east, light winds and cloudy;
Portland, south, light winds and cloudy;
Roseburg, northwest, 8 miles and rain
! ing; Red Bluff, southeast 8 miles and
. raining; Sacramento, southeast, "A miles
| and raining.
, 1t viii be noticed from the above report
that the present wind-storm is confined
to the San Joaquin and lower Sacramento
Valleys, and possibly along the coast.
, The precipitation for the twelve hours
!, was as follows for the places named:
Olympia, .0l of an inch; Walla Walla, .04;
Spokane Falls, .04; Fort Candy, .02; Port
land, .01; Roseburg, IS; Red Bluff, 20,
and Sacramento, .26 of an inch.
Judging from the reports of last even
ing at 5 O'Clock, this storm is passing
southeastward along the Sierra Nevada
Mountains, where no doubt high winds
and a heavy snowfall were the order Of
, the night.