The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-01-17
HOT WEATHER BAD FOR FRUIT.
Genial Sunshine Will Bring the Fruit
Trees Into Bloom.

~ EORGIA'S fruit crop for 1928 Is IN
grave danger, acco ding to reports
~ from the fruit district. Abnormally
hot weather is now prevailing in the state.
and the excessively moist air helps the
warmth to WOO the tender buds into bios
som. The present conditions ere just such
as will make the sap rise in the fruit trees
and make them bloom. say the fruit
raisers
Early blossoming has always been disas-
trous for the fruit crop in this state. The
cold snaps always burt the early fruit. and
If the trees put out now, slight cold wave
will kill all the fruit. it IS claimed.
If the warm weather continues for a few
more days the trees will begin to bloom.
A week of hot weather at this time OF the
year always forces the trees into blossom
There has already been enough warm
weather to cause a suspicious swelling or
the buds. and 1t is a matter of but day
or two longer when the peach buds Will
begin to burst.
The past few days have been remarkably
warm for this mouth. Only one or two
other years can compare with this January.
The last five days the weather has been
nearly 80 degrees above the normal. The
excessively warm spell began on the 5th.
On that day the thermometer lowered
around the vicinity OF SO degrees above.
1t kept showing upward, and on the Sth
the thermometer registered 66. On the !th
the mercury went to 6S, and yesterday II
was about the same.
Forty-two and a half degrees above zero
is the normal temperature for January,
and such hot weather is entirely out OF
season
The hottest January Atlanta has ever
experienced was in 1890. That year the
warm spell began on the oh. just as 1t
does this year, The warm season then
lasted from the 9Th to the 18th, and for
four days the mercury was above 70 The
last part of that month was also warm
Another warm spell about the same time
of the month was expe ricnCed In 1882 The
weather was very warm from the eth to
the 10th. The last three of January. 1891,
showed a temperature of Ga. Is and TO-
respectively.
Hot Jamaries are ne1rly always followed
By cold springs. In 1890, the hottest Jan
uary March was colder than ever before
in the history of that month. Inc mercury
took a downward plunge. and for ten days
the temperature was below freezing. ON
the 18th the temperature was as low as is
degrees above zero. This weather ruined
the fruit trees and injured young plants.
Records Broken by Tuesdays Heat
Tuesday, January 18th, the hottest,
spongiest and most enervating January day
Atlanta has ever experienced.
Scvcnty-thrcc degrees above in the shade
with the humidity in the air registering
nearly 100 per cent, was the record.
Tuesday morning was worse than tn"
day as 4 whole People woke up hot and
damp. The first observation at the weather
bureau showed the temperature TO be o.
while the humidity Was ~ or Wlthl! only
> per cent of being as moist as the air can
possibly get. when the air is totally Satu-
rated with moisture it is but 100 per cent.
The temperature Tuesday as compared
to that of January 18th of past years as
recorded in the weather bureau for nine
teen years is as follows: