San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-22
DROUGHT ENDS
AS RAIN STORM
SWEEPS STATE
East Texas Gets Heavy
: Precipitation With 5.O2
Inches at Galveston.
STORM NOW in GULF
Truck Gardeners and Farm
ers Say Winter Grains
Saved by Slow Rain.

The wind storm which struck San
Antonio and virtually all of Texas Sum-
day evening and which was followed by
rain txtrem ,ly heavy at Galveston and
several other points, has passed and
the forecast for Tuesday. issued by OBJ.
server j. III. Jarboe, is for fair weather
Wal rising temperatures. Monday
night will be partly cloudy and colder;
the mercury being expected t. drop 20
10 degrees or lower. although Mr.. JAR
boz looks for no local frost. Winds
will be only moderate and will be north
erly TO easterly in direction.
a storm area situated in the west
Gulf early MONDAY caused the drought
of about two months TO be broken IN
San Antonio and elsewhere in Texas.
San Antonio's weather bureau rain
gauge recorded 81 of an inch when the
rain stopped Monday morning. Winds
during the night, once at s o'clock and
Once at 5 o'clock Monday morning,
reached a velocity of 81 miles here.
Damage n~>arently was negligible,
while, on the other hand. farmers and
truck gardeners were jubilant, as the
slow. soaking driZzlcs were exactly what
they sough. to save their oats and truck
Rain Heavy at Galveston.
The thermometer at the weather bu-
rcau stood at "a degrees at G o'clock
Sunday evening. With the coming OF
high winds from the north it dropped
10 degrees in an hour and fell steadily
thereGts"r until it was in the middle
f2rties in Woodworking Monday.
All Texas, except the parLandle, feit
the effects of the wet low pressure area
in tie Gulf region.
Galveston reported 5.02 inches at
o'clock, observation time, with rain still
falling. Torrential downpours visited
many points in East Texas. Riverside
reporting 3.95 and Palestine 81.
among the leaders. Fort Worth, in 80
hours ending at 0 n. m. Monday, had
3.33 inches. 2.05 in the "a hours ending
NJ that time. Dallas had 1.22 inches
Monday morning and 1.24 Sunday
morn'~~ making a tOt-' of 2.46.
Rain extended across the state to
the New Mexico line and even FL Paso
had almost half an inch.
Freezing weather followed in the Pan
handle Monday morning, the thermom-
eter being down to 2S degrees and rain
at Abilene turned TO snow.
Storm Not Over.
The storm in the Gulf is not entirely
over yet, the weather forecaster at New
at Corpus Christi for small craft on the
lower Gulf coast. Corpus Christi had
a 32-mile wind during the night, but
precipitation was light.
Rain fell all through the South and
East, with snow at New York City and
sleet at Washington. ID. G.
Weather for the rest of the week here
hinges largely on the actions Of an area
Of low pressure. coming into the ""un-
try over the California coast. II this
work southwark. more rain is probable
late in the week. It had not developed
sufficiently for definite forecast Mon
day morning AMI was too far away TO
affect San Antonio weather for day o.
two, ut least. Mr.. JGrboe believes. a
large "high," centrally located, served
10 keep the mercury low for the time
being through most Of the country east
of the Rockies.