The record-union., 1891-12-28
THE WEATHER.
A Windstorm that Reached Forty
Miles an Hour.
The Rainfall Nearly Up TO That of an
Equal Date Last Year-Some
Comparisons of Interest.

The Weather Bureau reports show the
highest and lowest temperatures on Sat-
urday and yesterday to have been, re-
spectively, 460 and Sc, and $50 and 80.
The barometrical readings at A. NJ. on
Saturday and yesterday were 30.54 and
30.36 and 1902 and 30.0S inches, respect
lively. showing rapidly falling bar
ometer during Saturday night and yes
terday up to noon, since which time it
has been rising, eliminating early yes
terday morning with high southerly
winds and rain, the wind attaining We
locity Oh several occasions of from
twenty-five to thirty-fiye miles per hour,
and an extreme velocity of forty miles.
The rainfall amounted to "a of an inch,
making for this season 2.66 inches, dis
tributed as follows, September 10 OF an
nch, October 10, November As, and De-
cember Ito date 1.SS inches. There was
$40 inches to an equal date last year, dis
trlputed as follows: September so of an
inch, strace in October, none in Noyem-
Der, and 2.90 inches in December. On the
50th OF last December there was A of an
inch OF rain, which would make 4.14
inches last season up to the first day of
January, 1881. The prospects appear good
Tor the present month giving more rain
before the year bids US final adieu.
The highest and lowest temperatures
one year Saturday and yesterday were 400
and 80 and 400 and $50, respectively, and
one year ago to-day 4S0 and $50.
SOME WEATHER COMPARISONS.
We are in receipt of Monthly Bulletin
No. of the California State Weather
Service for November, issued by the
State Agricultural Society in cooperation
with the United States Weather Bureau.
As usual, it is full of valuable weather
statistics. The probable number of rainy
Gays for January, as deduced from a rec
ORD OF fourteen years, averages one day
in three which is the same at San Fran
cisco and Red Bluff.
A new feature of the November report
is the rainfall for each day of January for
the years 1878 to 1891, inclusive An ex-
animation OF the table shows that scarcely
any rain falls on the 9th, 7th and Sth
OF the month, and small quantities only
on the 18th, 18th and 18th, while the
heaviest precipitation occurs on the 23d.
18th and 3Oth. As a general thing, after
the 18th the greatest rainfall for January
occurs.
In record OF fourteen years there was
measured 51.12 inches of rain in as MANY
Januarys, and out of that AMOUNT of rain
Iall there was but 1854 inches measured
curing the first fifteen days OF the month,
leaving the large amount of 34.5S inches
as having been measured during the last
sixteen days. This leads to the belief
that we need not look for any heavy
rains until after the middle of the
month, but if they should come they
will be experienced somewhere between
the 1st and 9Th, 9th and 10th, or the
18th and 18th, but no great amount need
be looked for on the 9th, 7th, Sth, 18th,
18th or 18th.
The dryest January was that of 1889,
when but .15 of an inch was measured,
which fell on the 18th, 18th and 10th. The
wettest January was in 1878, when 9.2G
| inches was measured All but 20 of an
inch of that fell on and after the 18th.
The above deductions are based upon
well-known scientific facts, and will be
well worth taking notice of, to see how
January next pans out.