The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-30
COLD WAVE WEAKENS.
MERCURY GOES ~ BELOW FREEz-
ING POINT.

The Spell Not AS Severe as Was
Expected and the Truck Crops
Escape Serious Injury-The Cold
Waves Back Broken and Warmer
Weather Predicted To-Day = The
| Frost Line Still This Side of Jackson
ville-Severe Cold in the Northwest.
! To-day will be much warmer than yes
terday, and by noon the backbone Of the
frigid wave will have been broken.
The mercury yesterday morning at 5
! o'clock went down to 23.6', and thin ice was
plentiful throughout the city wherever
water was exposed to the open air. The day
was cold, and disagreeably so between s
and 10 O'clock in the forenoon, when keen
west wind was blowing at the rate of
twenty-four miles an hour. After 10 o'clock
the wind shifted to the north and fell to
twelve miles an hour, with rising tempera-
ture, and at 10 o'clock last night it had
veered to the northwest and was blowing
at only about six miles an hour.
The maximum temperature yesterday
was As and the minimum was 286'. The
mean temperature was So departure of
l6' for the last eighteen years, and de-
parture since Jan. l of minus 81.
At O'clock last night the mercury was
G. above the freezing point, but it went be-
low il before midnight. 1t is not expected
that the weather will be as cold this morn
ing at daylight as it was yesterday morn
ing, although the mercury is expected to go
to 90 or 30.
JACKSONVILLE NOT TOUCHED.
Contrary to general expectation the
frost line did not extend as far
south as was anticipated by the
signal bureau. 1t did not reach
Jacksonville, the frost line being little
north of Jacksonville. 1t is not expected
even that the freezing point will be reached
there this morning.
There was a higher temperature all
through the northwest, west and south at
the time of observationsat 8 o'clock last
night, but the weather was unusually cold
the last forty-eight hours, aud snow was
general on the Gulf coast as far south as
Biloxi, Miss
The cold wave is advancing up the Gulf
coast, and mercury IS reported very low in
the path of the storm, which swept up the
Jersey and Now England coast on Monday.
THE TRUCK NOT MUCH HURT.
Interviews with truck farmers do not
show any great damage to their crops.
Cabbage is affected some, but not to any
great degree, and the peas stood the cold
well. Cold weather does not damage the
pea crop to any considerable extent until
the vines are about in the poisoning season
Seed dealers say they have never sold 50
many peas for single planting as they
have this month.
Observer NJ. j. Wright, Jr., in charge of
the signal station here, and who was sta
toned at Poplar River, Montana, in the
winter of 18Ss-'65, says that it is the coolest
country there that he ever struck, and that
the people down here enjoy perpetual spring
by comparison. He went over from the
railroad station to Poplar River in sleigh
with the mercury down to 40, and he reg
istered at the signal office there during his
stay as low as so below zero. The winter
before he took charge the mercury went as
low as "a below zero. Mr.. Salisbury,
formerly in charge of the Savannah station
is now at Poplar river. and was handling
the instruments last night, no doubt, with
bear skin gloves.