The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-22
.tQ|uNOCT|AL STORM RAGING.
RAIN AND WIND HOLDING SWAY
OVER THE NORTHWEST.
Wires tn the Seacoast are Down and
the barometer In IT . Lew Ebb-
These Storms Usually Last Three

The autumnai egu!aoc,ial storm Is what
experts choose 20 term the storm which Is
now visiting Seattle. The date of the au-
Gguuai equinox Is September .. and true
10 the established rule. II Is accompanied
by a storm which is general over the
Northwest
Although rain began 10 dr;Szie Moniay
morning early. tho storm did not begin sn
earnest uasii near noon Of that day. and
wlia exceptional intervals IL has fallen
ever since. causing people to ransaek cos
els for rain coats, umbrellas ana other
vSt weather paraphernailA- Umbrella
men. many OF whom were thinking SRI
eus!y OF going cut Of business. took a new
lease Of lie and actually looked happy.
Clothing stores and dry goods establish
MEMS dragged out rainy weather gar
ments and gave them q prominent place
Il, show windows. and duck hunters shook
or the lethargy that had taken hold Of
them during the warm spell, and. with
gun and dog. started III quest Of the featn-
ered beauties. Nearly every one said
something out Of the ordinary about what
;hey supposed to BE- the toTerunner Of ;he
wei season. Old residents compared the
storm TO ether storms before the aoo: or
the tire. and funny ulva were given an OPP
porfunity Of telling their friends that the
rain Informed the dust that his name was
mud
q. N Salisbury. director of the local
weather station. in the prese nee Of L Post
IntelEgenCer reporter yesterday looked
up the record TO see how the present
storm compared with storms since ISo
In September OF the latter year ilere
was 40 rain en- or about the TIM for the
eqolaoctiai. and scarcely any during the
enlra month. In ISs@ rain fell very mitch
as X Is doing t1!s month, the total fall
being 22i inches. which i about nominal
FOR s. september In September 1888, rain
fell al intervals throughout thu month.
he total reaching three Inches. in 1874.
lss3 and ls5 there MAS average pree;pita-
ton about the eQu'noct.ai. and last year
most u The rain fell during the Early part
OF the month. Tie barometer last Sep
TENDER Was even lower than i ~ now.
which n ans more 20 IneteQFoo-lsts than
anything else. as their term Tor a storm
= iJrometric Expressions.
According 10 Instruments and charts in
Mr.. Salisbury's office, the storm area cen
ters over the Northwest with an sasteriy
course. of the oregon ami Washington
coasts and IN the Straits 4 strong gale is
blowing, reaching Il velocity Of forty i.li.t=
Taioosh and Fort Candy are down, wh.C n
indicates that the storm is severe in those.
sections In Seattle l icurtteu -Enile wind
blew most Of the day. with no Indication
az a let-up iAst night. These equinoctiAl
storms usually last three days.
The past summer. said Mr. Salisbury
has been an excessively dry one, Since
June ~ there has been no moisture up 10
tile present storm. which is quite remark
able for Puget sound. The average heat
during August ana September has been
considerably above normal, but even 80 il
was not uncomfortable when compared -
the heat in the East
Up 10 yesterday afternoon al 5 O clock
- OF an inch had fallen since the present
storm he gan.