The record-union., 1892-05-07
UNUSUAL CLIMATIC FEATURES.
Remarks on the FickIeness of the
MeteoroIogy of April.
Lieutenant Finley Says the Tempera-
ture Was Below the Normal All
Over the Pacific Coast.

Lieutenant John P. Finley, of the Pa
cific Coast Division of the Weather Bu-
reau. in his review of the weather during
April, says: 1.-The weather of the Pacific
Slope has exhibited abnormal conditions
OF both temperature and precipitation,
owing to the unusual number Of areas of
low barometric pressure from the North
Pacific Ocean. These areas have also
shown a marked tendency to move south
| eastward over the North Pacific and
Northern Plateau regions, thereby car
rylng the area of heavy cloudiness and
rain to extreme southern points. This
was notably the case during the storm of
the I'd to 9TH, when the area of heavy
rains covered the whole territory from
British Columbia to Mexico. The storm
OF the 18th to the 18th carried the rain area
into the northern portion of Southern
California.
Again, during the storm prevailing
from the 2Sth to May 1st, when the rain
area extended to near the southern
boundary OF California. In spite of these
favorable conditions for precipitation the
amount has been insufficient for yegeta-
ton in the southern portion of the San
Joaquin Valley, and in places along the
coast from Monterey southwark to San
Diego. The temperatures have been alb
normally low and unfavorable to crops
quite generally throughout the Pacific
Slope.
RAINFALL.
''It has been decidedly above the nor
NAL in the northwest portion of Northern
California, in Oregon, and generally
| throughout Washington The excess has
varied from 0.79 inches at Spokane to .35
inches at Eureka and 6.54 inches at AS
toria. The region of deficiency embraces
California south OF the 10th parallel and
the whole OF Arizona and Nevada The
deficiency varies from O.1O inches at
Yuma, O.O6 at Winnemucca, OF at Sacra-
mento to LIZ at Los Angeles. The heayi-
est rainfall in twenty-four hours were:
Red Bluff, Ia inches, 1st and ID; Tatoosh
Island l.42, 4th and 5th; Portland Lie.
24th and 25th.
LOCAL STORMS.
Heavy sandstorms occurred in South
eastern California, Southern Nevada and
Northern Arizona on the Sd. Hailstorrns
occurred at several points in Southwest
ern Nevada and Southeastern California
on the 18th. High winds of over 25 miles
per hour were quite frequent along the
Washington coast, in Nevada, Southeast
ern California and Northern Arizona,
The maximum wind velocity, Y miles
the 9th and 9th.
TEMPERATURE.
The temperature has been below the
normal throughout the Pacific Slope and
Plateau regions, except along the ex-
treme southern border of California and
Arizona, where the excess of temperature
was only about 10. The deficiency in
temperature varies as follows: CaIifor-
mia, 10 to 50, being greatest in the Sacra-
| mento Valley; Nevada, 10 to 40; Oregon,
p to 60. Washington. 10 to A. The maxi
mum temperature 1882 occurred at Yuma.
on the 9th. The lowest temperatures oc-
CURED in Western Nevada and Eastern
Oregon (24' to 260), on the 18th, 18th to 9th,
Frosts were quite frequent after the mid
die of the month in Northern California.
Nevada and Oregon, causing consider
able damage to vegetation"
Statement of the rainfall and tempera
ture, Weather Bureau stations, April.
1892: