Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-02-14
MISSOURI WEATHER SERVICE, JAN
UARY, 1886. ..i Il,
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY,
ST.. LOUIS. Feb. 6. 1885.

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY,
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 8, 1885.
The mean temperature for January,
1885, at the central station, was 22.5
which is nine degrees below the normal
temperature. The January mean has
been still lower, only three times since
1887, the lowest being 1913 in 1857.
The lowest temperature of the month
was twelve degrees below zero. The
min. was above the freezing point six
times during the month, and fell to or
below zero seven times. The average
temperature Of the coolest day of the
month was-l.l, on the 22d, the warm
est day, the 9th, having q mean tenn
perature of $40.
The rainfall was $50 inches at the
central station, the average for January
being 2.l7 inches. The snowfall was
lO inches.
In the state, the lowest temperature
recorded was-22 at Mexico and Steel
vile, which is one degree warmer than
the coldest temperature observed by
Engelnahn in st. Louis in fOrty-seven
years. Kirksville, Houstonia, LOUISE
anan and Oregon report-18. The
highest min. reported was-4 ut Cairo
Illinois. The highest maximum report
ed was 81, at st. LOUIS, temperature
often observed in summer. Lexington
reports that the temperature fell below
80 degrees on 2e days, and did not rise
above 81 degrees OH 20 days. 1t was
below zero Oh Is days, and on one day
did not rise above zero.
The mean temperature has ranged
from 14.3 at Oregon and Kirksviile, to
29 g at Cairo.
The rainfall (melted SNOWY has been
greatest in the central part OF the state,
being four inches at Sedalia, diminish.
ing 10 between one aud two inches in
the northwest.
To the southeast the fall diminishes
slightly rising to over three inches
along the Mississippi from st. Louis to
Cairo.
The snowfall was greatest in the
northern and central northern parts OF
the state being 22 inches at Louisiana,
lS inches at Kirksville, IL at Mexico,
HOustOnia and ChalnOis, 16 at Miami,
IA at Boonville, Is at Oregon and Sc
dalia, II at Glasgow and Lexington. II
at Harrisonville, 10 at st. Louis, al
Carthage, 8 at lrontOn and Centerviile,
at Greenfield and ut Pleasant Hill
AT the end of the month, snow covered
the entire state except perhaps in the
extreme south where returns are
meager. At Ki:ksville, Chamois and
) Miami the snow was inches deep Al
: the end of the month, Louisiana z
Glasgow, Houstonia and Oregon 8
BOomville 8, Harrisonville, Carthage
Lexington and Ironton 2, and at Mex
lea l.
Lexington reports that the "whea
has been we'll protected by the snow
Peach buds in this locality uninjured
,, fifteen degrees below zero appearing te
!. be about the danger line for peach
apricot aud cherry" Oregon reports =
"Peaches thought to be nearly all kill
ed. Wheat In goud condition under
; ell during November, December ant
beginning of January is subsiding.'
ChamOis reports the mean Temperature
to be 7.44 below the normal for the las
twelve years, and an excess of precipi
tatiOn of 1.79 inches above the averag,
of the last six years.
! At IIOustOnia on the 21st from 9 Il
{ 10 a. M, a solar halo of % degree
. radius with parahelia and traces OF th'
. upper contact arch, together with tn,
upper contact arch to the halo OF Al
degrees radius were observed. Cen
, terville reports that although the mini
= mum temperature of the air during tn
past January was IL degrees above tha
. of 1884, the minimum temperature o
the soil three inches below the surface
a was degrees colder during the las
J month than during January 1884.
FRANCIS E. NIPHER, Director.
!, Station, Lexington; observer, j. B
. Alexander; minimum, 1856; maximum
> 81; mean, Is. 2; rainfall, l.s7 rain, IL