The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-01-26


Parts Of hours at the beginning and ending. above
cannot be records made every sixty minutes
The above the only days which snow ice have
melted in the shade the north side of buildings and
the only days which the temperature by Thermometers
with northern exposure has risen above the freezing
point Of Fahrenheit
Yesterday the highest temperature was twenty
(27) degrees ard from before r NJ till after midnight
was in equibo at "a degrees consecutive hours
when it commenced falling gradually until O'Clock this
nol ming when great change TOOK place falling in less
than ninety minutes, eight cegrees to IA degrees.
This fall in temperature took plnce suddenly, as the
second great circle running out IT'S last hour.
1t appears by accounts from the East that the 10Th OF
december the cold day at Sebastopo They have In
Fahrenheit the Of which 80 degrees below the
freezing point Cenugrade, the or which is at the
freezing point, and Rcamurs the at the freezing
point One account states thai the Geld there ~
eQI ees below the freezing point and another that NJ 10
A. ". it degrees below zero. These, no DOUBT,
we're by two different scalcs there is fact connect
"a ;tb these records which is that great number Of
soldiers frost bitten great wind attended the
cold and immense shpwrecks took place In the Black
sea The same day the ship William Hitchcock
struck by Lightning and destroyed In latitude 40 degrees
~ Minutes north-far north
ON the 22d OF December the cold at the w. and N. W.
vas intense At waverley, Missouri, the temperature at
A. NJ fell to degrees below 2ero; at Omaha, Nebras
va to 10 degrees below in Wisconsin, to 81 degrees be
low; st. Paul's Minnesota to 70 degrees below. On
that same day says pablished letter from Kamiesch
Pains of Inkermann, the thaw commenced there At
r.ostop Mass the warmest day in the month"; tempcra.
90 "a Segrocs above zero at Portsmouth n H so de
srces above Brooklyn Heights 4s degrees above The
next day Oath the cold 81 ST. fau Minnesota, was At
40 degsees below yero at waverley, Mo- degrees below
at Boston AZ degrees above and on Brooklyn Heights,
"a degrees above.
Tie 18th Christmas day, rain fell here for % hours,
spdipg at NJ Of h. The highest temperature here
was 3d. at Boston 3o, while at Galveston, Texas it
The coolest Christmas they expcrenced at Wayerley
NO. II deg below zero; at New Orleans Ice orsed; at
lawrence Kansas, 20 to 20 deg, belog zero.
On The 26th, the day this cold term commenced here,
tie cold Mt Galveston Texas made ice Ia inches thick.
Al Cairo Miss deg below zero; OF Waverleg, Mo-, "A
deg below: at Hastings Minnesota, y deg below; al
urooklyn Heights, "a deg above zero at Hgeton 50
,lag above: Mt Portsmouth, N lH., and st. John New
prunswick " deg above zero.
Tins II will be that the cold Of this term came
rom the west and north west, and moved slowly.
"a would swoll this communication 70 unreadablt
length for daily, to 90 into detail but enough is here
steted TO show that undertake to foretef
what the weather Will be day in advance. There wal
nothine visible deaote this cold term and grea.
iorty OF PEOPLE predicted mild winter. The inSurl
which viii result from this frost viii BE- incacuab1
We had looked forward With increasing Interest," 70 tn
termination CT the second great circle, between and
| A. M OF to-day The hour came and with IL "a most ex
tIrordipary change. Now shall look forward 10 tn
eneing Of every term Of twenty-five hours and thlrt
| minutes, TIL still greater change arrives.
| DGcCAll, i!uCias, San 70, 1850, l. MIRIAM