p. 32 | The Weather

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 23, 1879

The Weather.

UP to this time the people of this locality have been blessed with only 2.65 inches of rain. This is unprecedented in the history of this county. Talk as they may, yet we challenge all weather experts to point out a season which has occurred within the last twenty-seven years that can be likened to the present one in any of its principal features. It is true that last winter we were blessed with but a small amount of rain until the 13th of January, yet that which was received was so distributed as to cause the vegetation to be in a very healthy and forward condition when the rains did come.

This season it is entirely different. The long cold spells of last month, and of this month thus far, have had the tendency to retard the growth of all vegetation, and in many places killing out the grain to such an extent as to make a resowing of the ground necessary. Unless it rains, and that copiously, within the next week or ten days, we may just as well give up any hopes of more than half a crop for this year.—Yolo Democrat.