The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-01-31
The Weather.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HER AID.

To THE EDITOR OF THE HER AID
This evening" at nine o'clock viii be eight hundred aad
fifty Eve (S55) hours since the commencement. Of the cod
term reckoning from December 20, between and A.
H. ana TO morning, tie las. named hour, viii
make up thirty Elk full and complete days tseuty four
hours each Of unbroken cold except By peturbaons o.
I'd, 18th, 1Tih, 18th, 10th and 2oth
The temperature yesterday, in the shade 20 60
deg al p NJ, and at at "a deg, after viii ch st
descended to and below the line OF freezing The wind
south for more than ten hours yesterday and
ut Il at point from TO O'Clock this morning. At
O'Clock this morning fine drops of fell for . .e~
minutes while the temperature eight degrees below
the free1ing point There was slight Hurry of snow
To-day the higtes. temperature was q. P w. 60 deg
Rain tell from IL to r N. Of day in fine spnnke.
Heavy squan came up from the West at 81 r. VI.
The forty five hour terms from 7. NJ Of this eyeang,
counting forward will occur as follows-Frday p NJ.
sunday, r ~; Tuesday, At noon and 1sday, Feb.
7, at A. W. The twenty two hour and thirty minute
terms midway between each, reckoning from O'Clock
this evening
correspondent writing to from the southwestern
mountains of Virginia under date Of January 20 says
son the 9th at ! A. NJ, temperature was 5 degrees
below zero; 10th, 10 degrees below, and degrees
below the llth This place is at elevation aDou.
ds sS' after which inch saO light h1e
inches additional IT Il now settled down, cpveIing the
ground ten inches deep The fall of from Oct "a,
1865 to Jan 20 1885, in this quarter in all twenty
inches On the 7tb sth and 9th Feb, 1885, the cold
49, 20 and 10 degrees below zero aud only since
here, and lS4l about twenty inches at one tmen In
postscript Of 2lst he says The temperature this ,rn
ing, at o'clock Is about II degrees above 1t is
now showing and the snow will measure inches"
Another correspondent at Logansport, indiana write,
me under date Of Jan. 25 as folio the night
Of I'D ut it changed from rainy to very cold weather
thermometer standing at O'Clock A. 81 of 23d deg be-
low zero; Oath same hour IL below-moderating some
what from this degree for the succeeding five days when
the z9h at nghta it became and continued grow
cod-mercury standing on the list TO Cd, at A. NJ to
10 degrees below zero the latter morning 20 deg be-
low on Friday, ath, at same hour-aIl with southern
exposure wind westerly Sunday, 9Th, little mider
5P NJ 7th, snow all day, and not extre nelly cold sth
IL deg below zero, at A. NJ, and oh at tina: hour
the coolest point attained, being rs below; at
norhery exposure but protected entirely from currents
Of air, "a be From the OH to this hour has
yielded to the action of the but small portion OF
day, viz at IL Of Thursday 17th freezing every hour
since, and yesterday morning below
This place is on about the parallel Of Latitude
that Of your observations and have in
the Eastern New England papers Of great degree
OF cold during the month that xpeTienced here
and further west as informed by letter from Mime
sofa that mercury CONCEALED at 40 deg Many lives we're
lost in the ptairisshe intensely piercing and freezing
winds that sweep State, from the vast plans
west o. us are far than the current OF
air passing over an expanse OF water"
We have accounts Of succession earthquakes siuce
the mmenctment OF the cold term viz AT San Fran
CISCO On the I'd Of JAN. st. Jago de Cuba the 3th
UgdepsbuTg N " and Vicinity, on 5th, in the evening"
Winchester, Va several morning Of 9th and ct
Santa Martha the 18th. win be seen by referring
back to my published memoraI de- that all except the
ah were remarkable days here, viz the 3D. rain fell
here while the temperature degrees below the
freezing point the 5th the great storm 8th the
cold was most intense and the l3th rain fell The Attn
had nothing remarssble. Earthquakes no doubt oc.
and Goth January, and win when the cold term
ends. The high temperature yesterday, which demo
inmate pertur baton, was no doubt connected with al
earthquake were those CT the 3d. 13th 17h 18th and
10th. +. Merriam
BRooxIYS HmcH1s, Jan. 90, 1866