The San Francisco call., 1899-01-29
Hot Winter Records
Smashed.
T METEOROLOGICAL MYSTERY
LoVELIEST WEATHER SCAREs
THE STATE.
California Still Heating Under the
=. r. Hottest Winter Sun It Has
~. Known-The Why of
-: the Phenomenon.

!" This is the most sensational weather
that California ever weathered since the
! 81 hlte man came to these parts. There is
some great physical mystery back of it.
-.hht in The absence of any evidence that
1.-The earth has suddenly changed the in
:clinati0n Of its axis there is no clew to
the solution of the mystery.
3. The State has had five days of the hot
- test weather the records record, not only
: fer. January, but for the whole three
- winter" months of December, January
3. and February
= e Il furthermore, the memory of man can
not recall a week of past winter weather
: in California which was so nearly perfect
so evenly tempered to the blood having
such cloudless skies, such still and balmy
airs, such clear visions of distant heights,
such ardent wOOings Of buds and bios
d. SONS, such temptations to go afield.
= +...Fhere is hardly resident of the State
= below the snow and frost lines that has
=not said daily: Isn't this a glorious
day."
~ IF Lowell had been writing that poem in
California during the past week he would
..have penned:
And .AE what is so rare as day in january
. Then, IL ever. come perfect days
= Ills easy then for the heart to be true
*;ts for grass TO be green or the skies to be blue
-; f. '%'Tis the natural way Of living.
: !. And at these perfect, peaceful, blessed
Gays the State is beginning to fairly shud-
der in fright
r.. 5>~Raiu! Rainr say people who look
g.. ahead. Are we going to have another
:: cursed dry year? And then this summer
= -fteather Will start all the fruit buds and
: the blossoms and the wheat to growing,
:and then the frOstS will cOme-Great
ScOtti And perhaps hardly any more rain
.on Top Of that This is glorious winter
weather, but Oh, my!"
. This magnificent spell of climate is in
teresung in more ways than one. 1t is a
=. 5eEular record-breaker all around On
d: New Years day it began to rain after a
+ 'l5li4 threat OF anQtner dry year ana peo-
" :ple voiced a glad ah. 1t raIned for a
week and the farmers We're jubilant,,
'..anG SO were others. Then it turned of
nice for a week and then it got nicer.
e.: :. ABOUT nNe days ago 1t began 10 warm
UP. IL warmed up first along the coast
and il has been steadily warming up all
through the interior and it is still firing
up. On Thursday San Francisco had the
:WaymeSt winter day in its recorded me-
..te5rU4cgICal history 1t registered Is de-
=. grees. The highest temperature before
regarded during the three minter months
e. degrees; December. Y degrees. Not only
has the daily record been broken, but the
.Wcalher spell is phenomenal for its con-
tinuance II is still warmer in the in
tcTior. but this San Francisco record is
typical of the whole State, for the whole
SldIe IS governed by a general weather
~. The natural philosophy of it all is this:
p Succeeding the long early January storm
a great area Of high pressure settled over
The west ana northwest, keeping out any
% ocean storms that might drift this way.
week ago this high" got shaped into
. q long sort of ridge of high pressure,
stretching from the Oregon coast TO Utah.
Naturally, the air currents have been
pouring out from il In all directions. Cali
tornla has for days received such steady
. currents from over the SiskiyOu Noun
.~tains and over the Sierra Nevadas. We
have been having 'norther. NO VINO
1Iarf kaa TOT Gil
Sunday or Monday last. This dry north
wind has been steadily warmed UP by the
sun from clear SKY as 1t traVeled south.
Il is the wind from over the Slsklyous
. from Oregon. warmed through it's long
travel down the Sacramento Valley that
. has given San Francisco its warm Weath-
..eT. at first the currents from over the
':Sierra NeVadas predominated in the San
=. Joaqun Valley and the interior kepl
::Fcrsucisco. Thursday was the city's hot
F.. test day but the interior has kept warm
-: :nu- ul daily and to-day may be hotteT
j" fhan ever. Yesterday FL Nerano, IN SoIl-
:'yI1la County and IndiO and Pomona, in
Southern California, had So degrees. Hay,
Wards Napa and other places registered
-. el:.dcgrces The whole interior OF the
State stood at between 70 and 50 degrees
i.:;:I-utU that "high' lets go the only cool
:-4riG:. cause will be the sea air, and that
.:Nill flow in just as soon as the land TEN
.:.f,a-cslture gets above that of the sea air.
: '3ttr two or three days there has Geen
= NEARLY an even balance. On Friday
:.;oUlning the shifting balance let very
" si-tptie draught Of sea air reach the city,
;.i.e r1o:e may come at any tine, almost
> Immediately. II the interior warns up
. 'iruCh more we Will have the before un-
:. heard Of phenomenon Of sea breezes in
..yviAtcT.
~. The present conditions will last until
::that long brooding high" breaks up
: and leaves. Professor Hammon yesterday
:. saw 10 signs of change. When that
%htgh" gets out Of the way it may ls5o rain III,
:. .Iaining or il may not. The present condi-
:: tfqn means what it is and nothing more,
:; :aHiI holds no prophecies.
= This warm spell ''stumps" Harmon,
Though He says he is utterly unable to
say why under the conditions. the air
should be so phenomenalIy heated. He
also says:
=: winter weather, but il never had a spell
.*.rf such perfect weather as this in its
=: history
! 81 the way, the dispatches tell of a
blizzard in Colorado yesterday, and Of
below zero at Chicago, Of % below at
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