The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-17
EIGHT BELOW FREEZING.
TIE COOLEST MARCH DAY IN THE
SIGNAL BUREAU RECORDS.

TIE COOLEST MARCH DAY IN THE
SIGNAL BUREAU RECORDS.
Mercury Down ID % l-2' &C the sig
nal station and Several Degrees
Lower On the Farms Near the City.
All OF the Crops Which Escaped the
First freeze Killed Nova Severe
Blow to the truck Farmers.
The weather was half degree colder
Yesterday than it was week ago Sunday.
Teen the signal service thermometer To-
corded PC; yesterday il was down to 251 T,
aud On the farms just out Of the city it went
two OF three degrees lower still
Although it was some colder, the cold
vas not felt 50 keenly yesterday as it was a
week ago There was less humidity in the
air. The absence Of moisture, the signal
observers say. was remarkable. The hu-
mildly was 26-; usually it is Sc.
1t was cold all day. Ice covered the
fountain basins, and the sun did not thaw
it out The terra Gotta lion in front CT the
cotton exchange was almost hidden under a
coating of ice. The ponds on the outskirts
Of the city were frozen over, and the day
~ - A4ob al III W AhCAN 49,
1t was considerably colder in the north
ern part Of the state than it was here, as the
wave came with very great force upon that
section. At Atlanta tie temperature was
lS'. AT Augusta, further down, it was JOY.
Charleston aud Norfolk reported "a.
TO BE WARNER TO-DAY.
The signal observers say that the wave has
passed aud it viii not be very cold to-day.
The weather has moderated very much in
the lower Mississippi valley. In Louisiana
the effects Of the wave were not very per-
ceptibie. Galveston reported temperature
of 90 and Palestine 65'. New Orleans
reported a traction lower temperature.
The wave swooped down from the Ohio
valley, affecting Georgia and the extreme
northern part of Florida ana also Alabama.
Over the northwest and the great lakes,
where the wave had full sway, the weather
is mCderating. The temperature is high
compared with the temperature reported
the day before. No temperatures below
freezing are now reported from the north.
A low area is spreading over the northwest
and the great lake region, forcing the mer-
curry up. The temperature in New York at
o'clock last night was 400, the same as it
was IN Savannah.
THE COOLEST ON RECORD.
The wave was the coolest of the season.
The signal service records no temperature
in March as low as yesterday. In March,
1878, the temperature was 27H, the lowest
ever recorded for the month. TIE mean
temperature for March is 500, although
the thermometer has recorded as high
a temperature as So. This occurred in
March, 1882. With the cold yesterday high
winds prevailed. On the coast the winds
were very high. They blew all along from
Hatteras to Key West, on an average of
thlrty-hve miles an hour. At Hatteras it
blew forty miles an hour. The winds
velocity at O'Clock at Hatteras was thirty
SIX miles, from the northwest.
ALL EARLY CROPS KILLED.
The freeze destroyed the last hope of the
truck farmers of this section as far as early
crops are concerned. The rain of last week
had tended to invigorate the crops, but the
cold snap Of yesterday morning, the third
cold Sunday OF the season, has set back
everything. The freeze was even more
severe than that Of the two Sundays previ7
Gus, and vegetation which had got a new
start mas again been cut down.
The first planting of peas was killed by
the freeze of two weeks ago. Second plant
lngs began to put out suckers which were
frosted week ago yesterday. Last week,
under sun and shower, the suckers again
grew out, and there was hope of limited
crop, but the last severe freeze finished the
work Of destruction.
THE CABBAGE CROP DAMAGED.
The cabbage crop has been seriously
affected, the destruction being more COM
plete as the rains of Saturday morning left
water in the heads of the plants, which froze.
and yesterday the cabbage patches showed
that the rains which had stimulated their
growth had also tended to make the freeze
more disastrous to the growing crop.
The truck farmers on Saturday were CON
graduating themselves that the rain had
benefited the growing crops, but before the
ground had dried out the freeze came, and
all advanced vegetation, such as peas.
beans, tomatoes and cucumbers, was cut
down.
The potato crop has suffered heavily. All
potatoes out of the ground were frosted,
some of them for the third time, and po-
tatoes not yet out Of the ground have been
chilled
The last cold wave was unlocked for.
and the truck planters were unprepared to
meet it. All hope Of early peas and beans
for northern shipments has now been de-
stroyed.