The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-12
IT WAS RATHER WARM.
Mercury Went Up and Cool
Drinks Went Down in. San
Francisco Yesterday.
MAY RECORDS BROKEN AGAIN
1t Was Hot as the Nineties and the
Cool Ocean Breezes Were All
at Sea.

CaltOr01a Sa1Q HQ6W J! yesterday,
mopped its dripping brow and shouted for
more iced drinks Summer is warming
the lap of spring this time.
The nineties exclaimed "Hello! So
soon ?" to the swelling mercury as it
pressed furiously upward to break another
May record. The ocean kept up its en-
barge on its cooling winds and just let the
City and the valleys further landward
swelter. Here in the City there was hardly
a zephyr stirring, and the sun blazed away
from sky beautifully clear except for a
lazy haze that softened the blue above.
The sun was REINFORCED by light flow OF
hot, dry air from the heated interior val
leys and the baking arid regions further to
the north and east, where the area of high
pressure was sending its currents forth.
In San Francisco the mercury seized the
opportunity and made dash for the 80
mark, but missed it by hairs breadth.
The best it could do, by the weather bu-
reau's official thermometer over the Mills
building, was SO degrees and fraction.
The highest May record for the first twenty
days of that month was So degrees, made
on May 10, 1889, SO that another weather
record was broken. In the Sacramento
and San Joaquin valleys the hot weather
made it five degrees hotter than the day
before generally and from Red Bluff to
Bakersfield the temperature ranged be-
tween 80 and 100 degrees. It will probably
be as hot to-day and then things will cool
off.
It's an i'll norther that blows nobody
good and those who minister to the thirsty
took off their coats and smiled. People
rushed for beer especially.
The consumption Of beer was enormous
and the moral responsibility of the weather
was plainly illustrated. From one
brewery alone $4,000 more drinks than
were supplied on any day last week were
rushed out in a wholesale way to satisfy
the clamoring thirsty. Every delivery
wagon was busy and three extra delivery
wagons were put into service last night
The deliveries were over 40 barrels or $50
more than on the same day last year.
Other breWeries felt q similar boom in
business and walters everywhere were
correspondingly busy. Soda water and
icecream resorts coined the sunbeams at
as lively rate and the ice wagons could
hardly supply the increased demands.
Forecast official Harmon told yesterday
how the hot spell Will be wrecked when
the smash comes. 1.-The great area of high
pressure that covers the whole Northwest"
he said, "has been sending out currents in
all directions, including the southwark.
these currents being especially heated for
and the southwark currents being helped
through by an area of low pressure over
Southern California that sucks them in.
Ordinarily sea breezes would be blowing
in but the pressure over central and
southern California is higher than over the
ocean and the hot winds are blowing sea-
ward. The pressure is gradually falling
over California, and when the barometri-
cal pressure becomes nearly the same on
land and sea, as it is likely to do this after
noon, the sea breezes will pour in, the
norther will cease, and things will cool off.
1T is nice, cool weather just few miles
off shore, but the cool ocean airs have been
doing San. francisco little or no good, be-
cause they can't come in. The hot weather
shades off from the shore line until at ten
or twenty miles out the temperature OF 90
deg. is reached. 1t was about 10 deg.
cooler at the Cliff House than at the bust
ness center yesterday, but still it was
about so deg. out there, when normally it
would have been nearer 80. The light
northeast current that brought the hot air
to re-enforce the sun in San Francisco yes
terday curved down close to the coast. A
few miles off shore they became mixed up
with colder currents, and beyond this line
of eddies the cool west winds were trying
to land.