Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-04
The Winter in Minnesota.

We have attempted, and We think with some
success, to give our readers an accurate thermom-
etrical table of the weather since December 18th,
'56. We shall now make general summary Of
the temperature for the benefit of our readers,
and their Eastern friends who have mysterious
idea that Minnesota is terrible place after the
first snow storm. They will see by looking oyer
this synopsis, that this territory isn't such an icy
refrigerator after all.
The first very cold weather of the season, came
in the middle of December, when, for eight sue.
cessive days, commencing on Sunday the 14th,
the thermometer ranged at sunrise successfully
2, II, Is, IL, 3, 2 and IA degrees below zero.
The extremes of heat and cold in each month,
taken at sunrise, are as follows.
CoLDEsT. wARMEsT.
December 10th, l50 below 18th, 19o above.
January, 18th, 400 " End, l2o Z"
February, 10th, 3So 6" 18th, 3l0 "
March, 7th, l4a 22nd, 370 4"
The coolest weather at IL m. was on January
22nd, when the Thermometer told 19e below at
noon. The coolest at six p. m, was 22o below,
on the evening of the memorable 18th Of Janu-
ary.
a We find, by equating our table, that the average
temperature, between December l4th and March
25th is as follows:
Morning, a above zero.
Noon, 23o
Night (6 p. N.Y. l2a +" 6
By the above it will be seen that the weather
in this North West is not so freely as our East.
ern and Southern friends would like to make it.
put ovop Tho Z. fo.hl. :~d.~ - o,,-
temperature, for the apparent cold indicated by
it, vanishes like any other bugbear, when it is
faced. A three months residence here, from
December to March, is sufficient to convince any
chill-stricken Down Easter, that the reported
rigor Of a Minnesota winter, is one of the most
eonsumate humbugs out Of Barnum's Museum
1t is cold here sometimes, true, cold as we desire
it; but the clear, dry, bracing, invigorating at
mosphere Of this country At this season, amply
repays for all. There is almost no such thing al
winter rain after the frost comes in November till
it leaves the ground in April. THERE'S no damp
ness nor chilliness BY night or day, when there
is, it is such rare exception as to become . Gu
riosity. There is no mud from Fall to Spring
india-rubbers and umbrellas are slowed away in
the "place for everything when Jack comes, fol
the pedestrians understand that his arrival is q
signal for rain, fog, dampness mud, and slust
to pack up their plunder and leave. "There's 9
mail in" said a youngster few weeks ago il
our streets. 'How do you know p asked q by
standsr who was longing for shat letter. cause
said the youthful genius there's man from th'
States.' The stranger had an umbrella under h
arml--and in February; a sign as sure, as il
'New England had been chalked upon his back
The transit from Winter to Spring, and from
Spring to Summer, is very rapid here, and grazing
and wild flowers follow suddenly upon the exit o.
frost. One winter here is sure panacea for tn,
unhealthy belief that has somehow obtained
that Minnesota is sort of Lapland No. 2, and
that the only way to endure its horrors, is to ge
frozen solid in the Territorial refrigerator and
thaw ont when Spring comes. 1t isn't SO. Ii
latitude may give it a leoniue severity-at dia
tance; but once approach, and the new acquaint
ance becomes very lamb.like and sgresabl,
companion.