The record-union., 1894-08-28
THE HOT WAVE STILL ROLLS.
Yesterday 1t Forced the Mercury Up
Above l07.
The second Time such Thing Has
Been known During the Last
Forty Years.

The Weather Bureau reports show the
highest and lowest temperatures yester-
day to have been 1912 and 72.9l'. with
gentle and variable all around the COM
pass winds and clear or hazy weather
prevailing.
The barometrical readings at A. ". and
P. NJ. were 1884 and 29.S0 inches, re-
spectively.
The highest and lowest temperatures
one year ago yesterday were $40 and 90, j,
and one year ago to-day 90' and 56'.
Yesterday 107.5o, or, in even numbers.
1882 was the second time such high
temperature was recorded in a record OF
over forty years. Even the hot wave of
June and July, 1859, did not record it as
hot.
on August q. 1888, the highest was
IO7.5o, and the hottest yesterday was the
same figure. even down TO the fractional
part of a degree.
Nobody has been heard during the
last two or three days TO make
any remarks about ''the glorious ell
mate" and II was quite unnecessary to
do so. The glorious climate has demon
strated its ability TO take care OF Itself,
and evinces a sort of NaEderblltorlan
contempt for public opinion as to Its
quality.
Alter all, the people vino complain Of
this sort OF weather are those who have
never passed tie summer months east OF
the Rocky Mountains, and therefore have
little conception OF what really hot, sui
try weather is.
While the heat of the last few days has
caused Calitornians to perspire more
freely than usual, few have really sui
fered any bad effects from it. Men and
women have gone about their work as
usual. and there has been no Interrupt
ton of trade and traffic. Horses have
performed their customary work on the
streets and in the harvest fields, while in
the East. under anything Like similar
conditions. such things would have been
impossible.
Possibly invalids, or persons of weak
constitutions, may have suffered some-
what, but on the whole Californians have
little reason to complain of the hot wave.
1t is quite likely, however, that the
spell viii soon be broken and that there
will be no more severely hot weather this
season. At times last evening there were
short spurts OF south breezes, indicating
that the hot wave had started TO roll back
whence it came.
The railroad reports show that intense
heat prevailed in all parts of the State on
station agents was as follows at the points
named: Newman, ll5'; Wesley, los;
Lathrop, 1852; Gait, lllo; Calistoga, ll0o;
Elmira, lI5'; EsperanZa, 113'; Orland,
1852; Corning, 1l4o; Athlone, 1l69; Goshen;
l0S0; Marysville, ll60; Red Blur. liz; lone,
l0S9; Roeklin, 1859; Auburn. 1862; sColfaX,
1912; Gold Run. 1929; Blue Canyon, 81;
Truckee, So; Cascade, 65o: Sisson. 1902;
Dansmuir, 1867; Los Angeles, l0lo.
Sisson, away up north at the base of
Mount Shasta. reported about the same
temperature as Los Angeles, and as high
up on the Sierra Nevada as Blue Canyon,
ut an altitude of 1866 above the sea, the
heat was as great as in San Francisco.
But owing to the dryness of the mount
ain air the same degree of heat would be
much more easily borne at Blue Canyon
than in San Francisco.
Sunday night was uncOmmonly warm
in san Francisco, like the day which pre-
ceded It. The lowest point to which the
mercury fell yesterday was 70o, which
was Il higher than Sundays minimum
OF co.