New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-10
assist the emigration agent in making them
sadly worse IN 1891.
rup rrST GETS SOME UINTER.

The comparative immunity from cold and snow
which the trans-MissisSppl regions nave ehJoye"
for the last two months has given the people
who live therein chance to indulge in llttle Jokes
about our "Easten billiards." but he laughs
best who laughs last, ald We now begin to near
of Ll,ciadcd railroads, pershing cattle, ana tIlo
other unhappy results OF winter storms Whlch
used TO he such familiar stories from the western
plaips. and which are really the normal FEATURES
Of the banana belt climate OF Colonel Eat
DOMAIN at this season of the year. 1t looks as II
the weather clerk, whose administration mas IT,
Gently been marked by numerous eccentricities'
was settling down into his regular routine again.
and was adnering Il little more closely to the
constitutional apnortonmcnt in the bestowal OF
his favoTs.
During December and January the lowest tenn
peraturcs reported were felt, not in Manitoba, Dut
in Ontario and the region to the eastward. Rock
cire TO the eastward of Lake Huron, and quebec
made the best records, far as official dates 90.
This fact was doubt due to the course OF
our storms at that time which was rather more
northerly than the usual cast-norheastery WIN
ter track Hence the Middle States, New-Ensand'
Ontario and the Eastern Provinces remained longer
under the influence Of these atmospheric as
turbances Between Thanksgiving week and the
early part of January, however, the storm centres
came up from the South and Southwest, Just
outside the coas,-line and gave New-Icrsey, East
crn New-NOrll and Southern New-Enghnd Tile
benefit of their western and northern skirts; 50
that sc lad good SHARE of the cold northcrly
and northwcstelly winds which Eastern Canada.
the Adi7onGackS and Northern NcwEngland felt.
But lattcrly the storm tracks from the South
west seem to have shifted trilc more 10 the
westward, and to he inside instead OF outside, our
Middle Atlantic cOast-linc We have. therefore,
had the benefit of the eastern, warmer sides OF
tie cyclones, with rain rather than SHOW and a
smaller share Of the cool reaction when once the
storm was over. Still, most of Ontario lay to the
left Of the track. which nearly coincded with the
St. Lawrence River. and consequently continued
to have cold weather
To this westward transfer Of the routes of
storms il due, in measure, no doubt, the IN
creased severity of the weather in the Mississippi
Valley and beyond. The storm which made 80
much mischief with our telegraph a fortnight ago.
somewhat unlike recent ones, came out, on us
Journey from Texas just south Of New-lorH. mat
which somewhat similarity afflicted Auburn, Cuca.
Saratoga and Albany last Saturday, proceeding
from the same source, seems To nave crossed ule
Hudson Valley a little north Of the metropolis.
thus giving MS rain rather than snow III ana near
tl;s city. But the blizzard which visited South
Dakota. Nebraska, southern Minnesota and adj
accent regions came from Montana, by way o!
Colorado Iowa. Wisconsin and the lake REGION
tbough with an extension 10 the Gulf States, ana
Thus brought the central part OF the continent
NOR, directly under the influence of lis cold slde
while Kentucky md Tennessee. the upper ONO
Valley. Ncw-Jcrscy and Southeastern New-Iorh
were on its warmer flank, and did not so soon
suffer from tie attendant and rather formidable
fall in temperature.