The herald., 1898-01-11
RAIN TURNED TO SNOW
SURPRISES RESIDENTS OF THE
SEMI-TRoPICS
Old Sol Soon Asserts His Influence
and No Damage Is Done to
Vegetation

ana NO damage Is lone 10
Vegetation
| Special to The Herald.
| REDLANDS. Jan. 10.-Redlands woke
up this morning to the very unusual
spectacle of snow covered streets and
houses. The rain of Sunday turned to
snow during the night which fell every
where to the depth Of two inches, giving
the town such an appearance for little
while as it rarely presents. There has
been no such storm in Redands within
the past ten years. Snow continued to
fall until about 10 o'clock Then the sun
asserted itself and by one o'clock the
snow had entirely disappeared from the
low upon the surrounding foot hills
| While it lasted boys and men improved
the opportunity for snowballing. Some
| of them took possession Of the roofs OF
business houses and pelted all passers
along the streets. In most cases the
assaults. were taken in good nature by
| the victims, but in few instances ii
was evidently much more amusing for
the perpetrators than for those who
| were compelled to dodge the flying mis-
slles.
/ Ten inches of snow fell in the Yucaipe
valley. The total measure of the rain
| fall at Redlands for this rain is an inch
and a half. Damage from the snow, as
far as now appears, Is very slight Here
and there throughout the orchards a
branch has been broken by the combined
weight of the fruit growing upon it and
the snow. But this is not extensive
enough to be worth serious considera-
ton The thermometer at o'clock this
morning stood at 3S degrees and fell to
So an hour or so later, but soon went
higher. Local indications this after
noon do not threaten frost, although the
| weather bureau has sent out a warn
| ing to look out for killing frosts. The
| sky is overcast and the wind is from the
east. No frost is anticipated here un-
| less the wind shifts to the north and
the clouds should disperse.
AT ONTARIO
|
| visited by a snowstorm this morning
| which lasted for half an hour, the snow
melting the moment it fell except in the
upper portion of the colony, where the
earth was covered to the depth of an
finch. No damage was done except that
few heavily fruited limbs were
broken.
AT RIVERSIDE
RIVERSIDE, Jan. 10-The people of
this city were greatly surprised this
morning to find the ground covered with
quite a liberal coating of snow which
had fallen during the night The storm
commenced late in the day Sunday and
later on the rain turned to snow and hail.
The rainfall for the twenty-four hours
ending at 8 p. m. today amounted to Is
of an inch. The total fall in this oity
to date has been All inches. Reports
from the outside districts this morning
are to the effect that the snow is very
general but light in the valley sections.
The storm last night was cold and this
morning the thermometer went down
to "a in the city. The weather bureau
predicts killing frost here tonight, but
the indications are that there will be
more rain.
POMONA
Pomona, Jan. 10.-Rain early this
morning turned to snow which fell light
ly in the valley and heavily on the noun
tains back of the city. AS the tempera-
ture soon rose no damage was done be-
yond the breaking Of branches already
heavily laden with fruit, Of which very
little Is reported.
SAN BERNARDINO
SAN BERNARDINO, Jan. 10.-The
city of San Bernardino and surrounding
country, from the town of old Grayback
and Mt. San Bernardino to the lowest
point Of the valley, was covered with a
coating Of snow Monday morning. The
rain Commenced to come down in good
shape about 10 o'clock on Saturday night
and continued to fall during the night
and Sunday forenoon, the sun coming
out in the afternoon, but the black
clouds hung around the mountains till
night. About a. M Monday the snow
commenced to fall and continued till
after daylight. 1t was warm snow, as
the northern citrus belters say, and
hung to the trees till they were a white
| mass from the topmost branches to the
DdSe. Ill the Idll was an
| nounced as four inches; at Highland
about the same; at Rialto and Bloom
| ington it was about two and a half
inches. AS far as learned there was lit
tie damage, except to heavily loaded or
| ange trees, which in some instances
| broke down under the weight of the
snow added to the weight of fruit on the
| tree. The sun came out clear about 10
a. M, and the snow melted rapidly.
| While it lasted the city was the scene OF
snow carnival and the man who es-
capped pelting with snowballs felt
| sighted. The roof of the Stewart hotel
and other business blocks were favorite
places to gather snow and hurl down the
missiles on the crowds below.
SAN DIEGO
| SAN DIEGO, Jan. 10.-The storm is
remarkable on account of the great fall
of snow in the interior. At Morena and
other points in the mountains fifty miles
eastward there is eight inches Of snow.
The fall of snow extended down to with
in twenty miles of this city and Lyons
peak. about that distance from here, is
covered for the second time since the
country was first settled.