Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-01-26
The Geld Term of iso7. and Other Cold


pened within the memory OF man. anu OF course
to compare the degrees of temperature with other
cold terms which the oldest inhabitant"
remember, or of which there may be any accounts
on record.
The cold weather of Friday continued to in
crease through the night, and on Saturday morn
ing thermometers in this city ranged from 10 to
d deg. below zero.
The Boston Courier OF Saturday says of the
cold on Friday in that city =" Thermometers, at
eight o'clock, indicated IA or l6 deg. below zero,
at various portions of the city. Every body was
half frozen, and passengers in the streets hao
their ears, noses and cheeks CONCEALED without
knowing it, and had their attention drawn to
their sufferings by those who met them in omni-
buses and streets. 1t may be repeated that the
present inhabitants of Boston have never known
such day of suffering from cold before The
cold Fridays and cold Tuesdays, which are set
down in the Farmers Almanac as the record of
intense cold in former days, does not reach the
intense cold of yesterday, far the opinion of
old persons can be relied upon. 'Old-fashioned
snow storms and old fashioned cold weather.
are thrown into the shade by the experience of the
last week. The thermometer in State street, at
the Suffolk Office, which is understood to be an
official indication of the state OF the weather,
stood at IA deg. below zero, between eight and
nine o'clock, and the mercury there did not rise
much in she course of the day. 1t was every
where cold throughout the city, and there was
little ameloration during the night"
The Boston TraUetier, which is good authority
upon matters connected with the weather, says
the lowest point reached on Friday by the Their
mometer Of its meteorological correspondent, was
II deg. below zero, and adds:
"Within the last SO years, the temperature
of III has previously to this morning been
sxcelled or fully equaled but once, viz: -l2
on February 9TH, 1866. On December 10th,
1855, at Z. NJ, (not sunrise, as stated in a
recent communication to an evening paper,1
the thermometer was down to 10 "a, de-
preston which was for 81 years considered the
greatest degree of cold in Boston. Only two
other days has it been as low as 10 degrees
in the last SO years, viz: on February LIST,
1925, and January 4th, 1885.
At Cambridge Observatory, the Their nome.
ter was 3 on Thursday, at 10 P. NJ; at lie
at Friday morning, or 5 degrees lower than
in Boston. On Sunday last it was at Ia, or
IL lower.
Two thermometers on high ground in West
Roxbury, which have been carefully compar-
ed by the Observatory standard, indicated
Friday mo. ming, when lowest, Is and IL be-
loso."
In this city, although Is deg was about the
average of temperature on Friday morning, we
hear of some localities in which the thermometer
fell to 81 eleg. This remarkable degree of cold
continued through the night accompanied with
wind. On Saturday morning, at sunrise, a dead
calm prevailed. Upon high grounds in this city
the thermometer ranged from 10 to 20 deg. below
zero at that time, but in the valleys the mercury
fell to "a deg. below. |
THE COLD TERM OF 1910.
BY reference to our files Of the Massachusetts
Spy, whichextend back as far as the year I77O, a
period of eighty-six years, we find some data re-
ferring to remarkable cold days, which we subjoin
not only az Of interest at the present time, but
for future reference.
We copy from the Spy of Jan. 81, 1910. what
follows, in reference to the memorable " cold
Friday:
son the evening Of the 18th inst, we had
trihing fall Of snow, and about ten o clock,
one of the most tremendous Northwesters
which has been experienced for many years,
commenced. 1t continued all the ensuing
day with force that shook the houses; and
the colo was intense. In about twenty-four
grees. AT eight o'clock on the morning of
Saturday, the 10th INST, it was IL degrees
below zero, The cold was extremely severe
during that, and the following day, but the
wind gradually became more moderate, and
the cold abated. Numbers of people are of
opinion that the weather has not been SO Sc
we're for twenty or thirty years before.a
At Providence the thermometer was three
degrees below zero on the lSth,at three o'clock
in the afternoon.
At New York on the 10th inst, it was two
degrees above Zero; and the papers mention
that there has not been such continuance of
cold at that place for twenty-five years.
Many chimnies were blown down, and sever
al small craft with steamboat, sunk.
The Boston papers state the cold in New
York at eighteen. degrees below zero We
cannot find anything in the papers from that
city to corroborate this statement.
At Springfield il stood At twodegrees below
zero. .fa
at Portsmouth, n. H.. on Friday, the Their
mometer fell 10 thirteen degrees below zero,
making variation of ffty-five degrees in
twenty four hours. On Saturday, at day.
break, it was fourteen degrees, and on Sunday
thirteen degrees below zero. This is three
degrees lower than it has been for fifteen years
past. s-----
At Portland the change in twenty -four
hours was fifty eight degrees. The greatest
degree of cold three below zerO.a9 s.i.a3 aa..
At Hartford the lowest degree was zero.
AT Boston, the Gazette says nine, the Cen
tinel one and half degrees below zero.
The harbor was frozen over and many people
severely frost bitten. ~ isasnraG1. III = 8
At Northampton twelve degrees below Zero
At salem i've degrees below zero.
The Albany, Trenton and Philadelphia pa
pers make mention Of the gale. On the 10th,
the thermometer was twenty-one degrees
above zero at Philadelphia The gale vas felt
at Washington earlier than in this part of the
country, about four o'clock in the afternoon.
and caused Congress to adjourn. That we
understand Is the place where Eolus always
opens hisbags eff wind" gfR
The SpyOf February 81, 1910, nearly month
later, gives some additional items OF the severity
Of the cold in other parts Of the country, as fol-
lows THE North Star, published at Danyille,
Vermont, says the greatest degree Of cold Janua
~ 10, wasls below zero. The Utica IN. W Ga
sstfe mentions that the cold on the 18th depress-
ed the mercury 70 IS below zero; at Marlboro,
N. H., u below zero, making 63 degrees differ
snce Of temperature in twenty-four hours; At
Montreal January 10, 20 below and on the goth,
"A below and January Dist the Delaware river
was frozen over" This paper adds -" The
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