The San Francisco call., 1910-05-30
OLD SOL TRIES
FOR new RECORD
When Sun Set Yesterday High
est Mark in Thirteen Years
Had Been Equaled
Large Crowds Flock to Park and
Beach to Escape Heat
of City
The Mercury Yesterday
Equaled 1897 Record

Old Soils smile beat down on San
Francisco with vengeance yesterday.
It was the hottest day this city has
seen this year and the hottest that any
May has been here since the spring of
1897. The mercury began climbing at
sunrise yesterday morning and rose
steadily until it reached its highest
point at ! o'clock in the afternoon,
when it registered sS degrees.
The city had had two other days this
year which were rivals OF yesterday
for the first place in the heat race.
These days were April % and May Is.
On the first mentioned day the ther-
mometer showed 81 degrees. but this
record was defeated by that of May 5
by one-tenth of a degree. Both of
these days appeared to be hotter than
yesterday, but they were not, the rea-
son for the idea that the earlier days
were warmer being that the humidity
yesterday was not as high as on either
Of the two previous dates.
II was an uncomfortable day
throughout the San Joaquin valley,
where the temperature averaged about
1Ol degrees. Fresno sweltered through
the day at 104 degrees, Santa Rosa at
l02 and Sacramento at 9S.
The weather was warm generally all
along the coast, running from rs to
81 degrees. but at the Farallones it
was only Sc degrees and it was also
comparatively cool at Point Reyes.
"T TOLD YOU sO"-sAcADIE
The warm spell was expected-at the
weather bureau. Prof. Alexander G.
McAdie, district forecaster, smiled and
said, in so many words, 81 told you so,'
when first called upon for a reason for
the sudden" hot spell. The weather
prophet seems extremely pleased with
this delightful weather and will not
promise that ii shall cease at once, but
states in firm, unshaken voice, that
1t will continue warm"
Last evening q hazy mist began
sweeping through Golden gate from the
west, but If any are counting upon this
to dispel the heat they count in vain
for this Will probably disappear with
the first warm rays of the morning sun.
From IS degrees at l o'clock yesterday
afternoon the thermometer gradually
dropped until sundown. when it was
about 75. The evening was cool and
thousands wandered the streets in all
parts of the city and the cars to the
beach were crowded with those taking
relief from the heat OF the day. If
the heat is as great today it will prob
ably be found to be much more oppres-
sive, as the humidity began to rise
rapidly at 4:S0 o'clock yesterday after
noon.
CROWDS SWARM BEACH
Professor McAdie does not assign any
particular reason for the hot spell. II
just blew in with the clear sky and
the light northwest wind, and gives
promise OF remaining with US day or
two. The May of 1897, which is the
first one, looking backward, that had
a day as hot as that of yesterday, did
not beat yesterdays record, but merely
equaled it.
Thousands took advantage of the
weather yesterday and swarmed
through Golden Gate park to the beach
and down the latter for several miles
With all the warmth. It was a fine
California day, and not a single suf-
ferer from the heat was reported to
the health authorities.