Phenomenal Weather in California.
The United States Climate and Crop Bureau Bulletin of California for week ending August 24, has the following regarding phenomenal weather in California:— “The great meteorological phenomena of the past ten days have been the electrical storms, with heavy thunder and vivid, forked lightning, which killed one person at Pomona on the 16th, and produced cloud-bursts in the mountain regions of San Bernardino County, causing washouts in many places and injuring to some extent the orchards of that county.” On the 18th, there were heavy electrical storms along the coast from Pacific Grove to San Francisco, with heavy rains at Salinas; objects were struck along the coast at San Francisco. On the 19th, heavy thunder and lightning storms passed over the southern portion of Yolo County, with heavy rains, lasting about fifteen minutes. A mule was killed, and the driver injured to such an extent that he did not recover sensibility for several hours. On the 22d, the severest thunder and lightning storm ever known passed over the town of Marysville, striking several buildings. On the same day an extremely severe thunder and lightning storm passed over the mountain regions of Placer County, at Summit, Emigrant Gap, Blue Cañon and Cascade, with hail falling to the depth of nearly four inches. During the week there were numerous thunder and lightning storms in the mountain regions of Siskiyou County, as well as in Modoc, Lassen, and Plumas Counties, which are all mountain counties. Such storms as these are extremely rare during the months of July and August.” More and more of these things will be seen as the earth waxes old.