Phenomenal Weather

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 2, 1879

Phenomenal Weather.

The weather record of this State since the coming of the Argonauts shows nothing like the continued cold snap of the last fortnight. When the mercury falls at Sacramento to 15° and 17° below freezing point, as it did on the nights of the 26th and 27th instant, it is almost as startling a phenomenon as a settled rain in the month of August would be. Our driest winters are always the coldest, because they are accompanied by northerly winds, while the rain winds all blow from the south, generally at a temperature ranging from 48° to 62° Fahrenheit. The ordinary winter north winds come with a perfectly clear sky, and produce a range of temperature in the great inland valleys from about freezing point (32 degrees) in the night to 52 degrees in the afternoon. This year the range both at Sacramento and Stockton has been much lower, both day and night; and, though the cold would not incommode an unacclimated person from Illinois, Massachusetts, or Pennsylvania, it is keenly felt by all old residents, who require as heavy woolen clothing and as hot fires at ten degrees to fifteen degrees below freezing point as the inhabitants of the Northwestern States at ten degrees below zero. . . . This year they tell of ice two and a half inches thick at Sacramento, formed in two nights.—San Francisco Chronicle.