The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-03-23
COUNTRY GETS A SOAKING.
AN INCH AND A QUARTER OF
RAIN YESTERDAY.
Snow Falls in the Mountains, and
There is Now Eight Feet at
the Summit.

AL day long yesterday it rained, and
the rain was never weary" The storm
set in before daylight, and there was
practically no cessation in the rainfall
throughout the day and up to an early
hour this morning, although at times
last night it came very lightly.
When the Weather Bureau report
closed at 5 o'clock in the afternoon the
precipitation for the storm was l.US
inches, and for the season 12.1l inches.
Up to this morning the record should
be close on Is inches to date = very
respectable showing. indeed.
In some localities the farmers are al
ready shouting for the rain to let up
They say enough is enough, and any
more than enough Isl too much. But the
ground in most places will take more
rain than has fallen and unless I'M
usally heavy storms should come there
is not much danger of grain being
drowned out. Crops are sensitive
things, however, and easily affected. 1t
was a philosophical answer that a
father made to his little son who asked
him the definition of crop "A crop,
my child" said the father, sis some
thing that has had either too much or
too little rain"
Under the influence of the present
storm the mountain streams are all rls-
ing, and the Sacramento was yesterday
higher than at any time WITHIN Two
years-seventeen feet-and will prop
ably reach twenty feet when the full
effects of yesterdays storm are felt IN
the valley.
There is now eight feet of snow at
the Summit, and it was still being
added to yesterday If the weather
does not come on too warm and melt
this snow it will serve to keep the
rivers we'll supplied until long into the
summer season.
According to accounts received at the
railroad office the rain was general all
over the northern part of the State and
in the mountains. Between Emlgrant
Gap and Sacramento the rain fell all
day, and was still falling at late hour
last night, while above Enigrant Gap
a snowstorm was raging.
A telegram received last evening
from Corning, Tehama County, was to
the effect that during the storm two
inches of rain had fallen, and that the
storm continued.
From Dunsmuir came word that rain
had been continuous since the Begin
ming of the storm and that there was
no abatement. A few inches of snow
fell in the Sacramento Canyon and on
the Siskiyou Mountains.
The Weather Bureau report shows
the highest and lowest temperatures
yesterday to have been "a and ~ de-
grees with fresh to brisk and hlgh
southeasterly winds and rainy weather
prevailing.
The barometrica1 readings at a. M
and 5 p. m. yesterday were 5U.o4 ana
% 90 inches, respectively.
The highest and lowest temperatures
one year ago yesterday were 81 and
SO degrees, and one year ago to-day
81 and so degrees.
The average temperature was oZ, ana
the normal sc, showing yesterday to
have been degrees cooler than usual
for the 22d day of March
River, IL feet and rising.
The rainfall for the twenty-four
hours ending at o'clock last evening
was LOS inches. making for this month
4.S2 inches, and for the season III
inches as against $50 inches to an
equal date last. year.
The total amount for the whole Of last
season was 1851 inches. This season Is
now over two inches in excess OF last
seasons total precipitation.
The highest wind velocity yesterday
was SO miles per hour, from the south
east.