p. 36 | Weather in California

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 19, 1882

Weather in California.

THAT well-known personage, “the oldest inhabitant,” is lost in astonishment at the recent weather in California. And well he may be. The wind in Oakland reminded us of our experience in Illinois. From San Buenaventura a gale is reported which demolished buildings, windmills, etc.; the damage was great, and a large number of buildings, mostly barns, were destroyed. At San Bernardino the snow fell to a depth of nearly a foot. The hills about Santa Barbara were covered with snow. It is reported that at Sacramento the thermometer fell lower than at any previous time in twenty-five years. This will give our readers an idea of the phenomenal weather period through which we have passed. Not much rain yet. The wind was a “norther,” and much damage was feared to the wheat.