The San Francisco call., 1898-12-26
Is Also Worried About
 an Absent " Low.
A REMARKABLE ATMOSPHERE
'EQUALED BUT ONCE IN THE
 STATES HISTORY.
The Barometer Is Climbing Onto the Roof and the Weather Sharp Is Wondering What Will
 Come Next.

o-Rain-in-the-Face Hammon, the prestidigitator on the top of the Mills building, who jollies the people on wealth CT conditions, has gone up against the real thing and fled to the high mountain to try and ascertain remotely where he Is at.
 Without any warntng-even the sending of personal card announcing arrtval-a climatic condition has fallen upon the worthy weather juggler that IS making him do lot of guessing. At the present writing he is upon the highest point Of Tamalpais communing with scientinc ln- struments and hopelessly struggling to find out why atmospheric conditions are endeavoring to beat the record.
 Only once before in the past fifty years has the high pressure equaled the figures of yesterday and the day before. Inls announcement will be better understood when it is stated that the barometer has been standing at 30.65 and is climbing at an alarming rate. Al one f ttInS S Ht S.ote ote the pressure ascended to 30.69. After that several things that were not on the pro gramme happened; but what will De the result of the present condition Is some thing that MT. Hammon will not under take to prognoSticate.
 From his exalted station he did some talking yesterday by telephone that will be of great value to that class or people who do not care whether or not 1t rains.
 For long time he has been able to talk
 
 in Nevada or Wyoming and causing trouble, and the plain low that was camping in this section and courting the favors of one Jupiter PluVius Now that that mysterious high is astoundingly in evil dence MT. Hammon knows it is here and he does not know what to do with it. He knows that he has the high located all right, but in order to be next to his job he must keep tab on that low fellow, who is now doing the disappearing act. Where of he is troubled.
 Old Probabilities has his weather eye on the whole Pacific Coast and the condi- tions, strange to say, are the same around and no one knows where MT. Low is.
 "The conditions that have existed dur ing the last twenty-four hours are de- cidedly remarkable" said MT. Hammon on the wire. "The barometer is now standing at 9O65 and is steadily rising. equaled. Once before it went a little higher. No, can offer no explanation of the conditions. There is nothing in the Pacific Coast region to account for it. So far as 1 can see there is no possi- bility of rain before Tuesday, calculating on the data we have to work on. Of course that measly low may be out on the broad Pacific waiting for a chance to give us a surprise, and he might slip in at any time and make a great trans formation in the actualitieS. He might have a tremendous precipitation or hurricane or two up his sieve, but don't lIlluh COull SSl- lilSlll tlllo WOIhlilS order inside of a week If he succeeds in fooling us it will be one more reason why there should be a signal station out in the ocean so that we might know what is going on in that area from which so many of our storms come
 "With these abnormal conditions exist ing in the barometer, unusual storms may follow, but I want to say that I am not going to stand sponsor for any pressure that is acting IS this one is It Is worth a mans reputation to be associated w6h it."