Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
WIND TEASES MANY
LOS ANGELES HATS
CITY FEELS A BIT DRAFTY
ALL DAY
Hot Air Circulated at the Rate Of
TWenty-six Miles an Hour
for Time Yes
terday

Weather Forecaster Fuller of the Los
Angeles branch of the United States
weather bureau left the office open
yesterday.
| Los Angeles felt a draft, and the
wind blew through her tresses at an
"Arizor | twister' rate.
mo, it's not Santa Ana,' as they
call it everywhere, but at Santa Ana
where they label them 'Riversiders,' .
remarked the weather man bottling up
healthy looking draft; but it's sort
O. an 'outsiLer,' this breeze.
"Oh, it has been worse. Los Angeles
has had the wind loafing around at the
rate of forty or fifty miles an hour
some Mays, believe, judging from the
records of the office.
THE maximum velocity of the wind
today was twenty-six miles an hour
about 10 O'CLOCK this morning. That is
pretty good. You chaps have to take
reef in yorr trousers at that rate,
and the number of hats in the air-not
counting those creations approaching
hilarious wiCowhood were a healthy
minority. At least a quorum of the
headgear of his city was in midair a
large part of the time yesterday.
Is not "santa Ana"
But don't believe people when they
say 1t was a Santa Ana so-called.
THE Santa Ana is a norther. True,
that high wn1 about 10 a. IN. today
was from the northwest. but 1t was
not generally a Santa Ana at all.
You notice from our faithful old
weather map here, Matched out every
day, that the barometric pressure over
the Pacific coast to the west of us was
In pq ef of
was but 1890 and, according to the iso-
bars, or lines connecting places of
equal baromet, ic pressure, run parallel
with tbs lines of latitude.
Mature always seeks to equaliZe
things and restore equilibrium. Hence
the wind came from the west where
the pressure was higher and went to
the east where the low pressure area
prevailed. This gave us people of Los
Angeles west wind and not a
'norther.'
"The average velocity of the wind
today was from sixteen to twenty
miles an hour.
"The average for ordinary days is
about eight miles an hour, say.
Warmer Weather Promised
1--WE won't have any Santa Ana un-
less there is high pressure directly
south. Then the wind will come from
the north.
However, we may have little
warm weather with this present wind.
We shall see when the isobars get on
to their job as the poet so baromet-
rically sings"
And the weather man pulled out a
cables length of hawser and fastened
1t to his new spring straw hat with
fo'castle knot, which he had learned
from the jolliast sailor on board the
toughest looking torpedo boat in all
Commander Cones fleet of fighting
machines
Weather Observer A. b. Wollaber is
a. Washington, d. c., consulting with
Chief Moore of the department regard
ing Salton sea. No word has been re-
ceived from him yet at the Los Angeles
office.
No great damage was caused by the
high wind. but a number of minor ac-
cidents were reported. AT Monterey
and Beaudry avenues an old oil derrick
was blown down. and in its fall took
with it a large number of electric light
and telephone wires. Several of the
tents that had been used for voting
places last Tuesday and had not yet
been removed were blown down. A
few small, tender trees in the residence
districts were uprooted.