The San Francisco call., 1899-01-27
THERE WAS A
HOT TIME IN
THE OLD TOWN
1t Broke All Records
for January.
PROFESSOR HAMMoN Ratified
CAN'T TELL WHERE THE HEAT
CAME FROM.
Fruit Trees Will Be in Danger Unless
a Cool Wave Comes Quickly.
The Eastern States Are
Freezing.
PROFESSOR HAMM0N Ratified
CAN'T TELL WHERE THE HEAT
CAME FROM.

All sorts of anathemas were hurled
at the weather man yesterday by the
perspiring, swearing sufferers from
the heat, but Professor Harmon posi-
lively denies that he is responsible for
the rise IN the temperature, and he
further asserts that he is unable to
give an explanation of what he Serms
the phenomenon The thermometer
reached the seventy EIGHT mark during
the day, which is the highest on record
for the month of January, and as all
of the atmospheric conditions were
favorable for cool weather no one is
able to offer a sane reason for the heat.
Should the temperature continue as
great as it was yesterday it is feared
that the fruit trees will blossom and
the crop be endangered, as it is hardly
possible that the remaining days of the
winter will pass without a frost
Throughout the State the mercury
took jump during the past two days,
but San Francisco carried off the palm.
With the exception of San Luis Obispo,
where the thermometer registered so
degrees, it was warmer in this city
than any other place in the State. Re-
ports were received at the United
States Weather Bureau late last evening
from all portions of California, includ-
ing the southern cities, and while the
average temperature was in the neigh
borhood of 75 degrees, nowhere except
at San Luis Obispo was the mark set
by the metropolis equaled.
While Californians are enjoying sum
mer heat the mid-winter Eastern cities
are suffering with the cold AT Omaha
yesterday the thermometer registered
4 degrees, at Chicago 10 and at Mani
toba 80 below zero, with everything
favorable for still colder weather
Professor Harmon throws up his
hands when asked to explain the freak
weather. BY all signs" he said. I'VE
should have cool weather. For the past
three days it has been blowing a per
feet gale on Mount Tamalpais The
wind gauge registered from thirty to
sixty miles an hour. The wind has
been dead in the north, and with the
mountains covered with snow cool
weather is due. But all signs fail in
dry weather.
Il see no prospect of rain within the
next twenty-four hours, and it is
needed badly. Should this warm spell
continue for week the fruit crop may
De HIS IL tACSlSIl
weather and the fruit trees viii begin
to blossom if It lasts much longer. The
chances are that there Will be frost
during the coming two months. and
should the buds burst before 1t comes
there would be considerable damage.
The sun is now sucking up the mois-
ture in the ground, which it would be
preferable to have preserved until the
dry summer months. 1t is impossible
to tell how long this warm weather will
continue, but il is probable that it will
not let up within the next twenty -four
hours. and ii may last longer.
''The heat of Wednesday when the
Thermometer stood at 741a, was the
highest since a record has been kept.
Yesterday the mercury rose 31k degrees
higher than the previous day. On jan
uary 6. 1887. the thermometer reached
as high as 10; December 8, 1893, it stood
at 70. February o. 1888, at 20. and
March Z, 1882. at 80. These are the high
est on record until to-day