The record-union., 1891-03-01
RENEWAL OF TEE STORM.
It Rains, and the Rain Seems Never
Weary"
There is Quite Enough for the Present
"A Warm Wave Supplants the
Recent Cold One.

The storm broke out afresh last even
ing, and for several hours the rain fell
heavily. The ground is now so charged
with water that nearly all that falls runs
Off to swell the sloughs and streams and
thence finds its way to the rivers, which
are all booming with food waters. No
damage worth mentioning has been re-
ported in this end of the State, nor is
there any present danger of injury from
the heavy storms that haye lately pre-
vailed. There are localities, perhaps.
where few acres of grain here and there
may be FLOODED out" but if so the dam
age will be trifiing-unless, of course.
heavy rains should fall for several days
to come, which is not likely to happen at
this season of the year.
The Signal Service reports at O'Clock
yesterday afternoon Show the barometer
to have been below 80 inches-the lowest
being 29.7S inches-at Fort CANDY and
Roseburg. The storm center is some
where between these two places, and is
travelling to the eastward, giving high
temperature and showery weather in
Southern Oregon and in Northern and
| Central California.
There has been no precipitation at any
t0iSiiStl 'oCiN iCS norm OF I6OSeDurg,
out at that place, and south to Sacra-
mento, there was an appreciable precipi-
| tatlon. In the twelve hours preceding 5
O'Clock yesterday there was measured at
Roseburg .96 OF an inch Eureka, 80 ::
Red Bluff, .02, and Sacramento .06 of an
Inch. Southerly winds prevail in Califor-
mia and Southern Oregon, and northerly
in Washington.
The temperatures, wind and weather at
P; NJ Were: For Olympia. 3S, northeast
and cloudy; Spokane Falls, Is, east and
cloudy; Walla Walla, IS, southwest and
cloudy; Fort Candy, Al, southeast and
partly cloudy; Portland, 81, east and
cloudy; Roseburg, 4S, west and raining;
Eureka, 6S, southwest and cloudy; Red
Bluff, 62, southeast and raining, and Sac
ranento, 81, south and cloudy 1t will
be seen that Eastern Washington and
Oregon are suffering from an exceedingly
cold wave for this coast.
The month just past ranks fourth in
point of rainfall for February in record
OF forty-two years. The months that gave
a greater rainfall than the present one are
as follows; also the seasons rainfall.
which shows that unusually wet Febru-
arys do not belong to the dry season
cycle: February, 1854, $50 inches; for the
season, 20.06 inches; February, 1867, Z. 10
inches; for the season, 25.3O inches: Feb
ruary, 1873, S.O4 inches; for the season,
24.S6 inches; February, 1891, 6.66 inches.
and, for the season to date, 1l.33 inches,
as against 27.67 inches to an equal date
last year.
Yesterday was an exceptionally warm
day, the highest temperature being GO.
and the lowest but So This is The warm
est day since last December
Tho present storm gives cold and cloudy
weather, with no rainfall in the northeast
and northwest quadrants on the north
side of the center of disturbance, while
on the north side of the center rain with
southerly winds and warm weather APP
pear in both the southeast and southwest
quadrants. 1t is not definitely known
by the reports whether the lowest ba-
rometer has reached the land from off the
ocean In the. stretch OF country between
RosebuI'g and Fort Candy or not
An extremely cold wave was over Iowa
yesterday, where the thermometer was
from 10' to 1S' below zero, or from 6Oo to
so colder than it was in this valley at the
same time.
The reports received at the railroad
office in this city last night from the sta
ton agents along the line OF the Central
Pacific on the ..hill' showed that rain
was falling at all points.