The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-03-09
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RECORD OF SOME COLD WINTERS.
.nourh We Have Iieen Having n Cold
A.nt.r II.... L.uA. An.I, IL. ia.rs

Enough We Have iieen Having a Cold
Winter There. Have Been Others.
The impression that thiSis a remark.
able winter and one of the oil fashioned
kind led Professor John Smock. the state
g~eologist Of New Jersey. TO make some
saasolable comments ON the kind of
weather that our forefathers hal when
this country was new. Professor S.noch
has written considerable about the
weather and has finished the most COM
plete recort, of the weather that has been
brought between tie covers Of a o
From the facts and figures that he has
at his command the people who bee lme
fright ned a few weeks ago when the
mercury dai,ied around the zero point
were uniustly So, and should be o II
soled with the information that the
folks of this day and generation are not
in it with the good old sires of colonial
and Revolutionary days for cold winters.
Professor Smock's record goes back to
1907. and it tells how often the Hudson
and the Delaware rivers We're frozen
over. This record is particularly inter-
esting because it tells of frost in June
and rivers full of ice i'll April. Frost
making its appearance in every month in
the year and snowstorms in May destroy
ing the crops. There are numerous cases
cited where the mercury had gone way
below zero and remained there weeks at
il time.
Some extracts are made from the rec
ords. and they tell their OWL story:
lGil-2- Chesapeake bay nearly frozen over.
Il.-Feb. 1924, great SNOW; greatest ever
known up to that time in New England and
on Long Island.
1864 5-Navigation in the Delaware much OBJ
structed by ice from Dee. =. until Feb. y: Feb.
=. an OK roasted whole on the ice at Philadel-
phla: March IS. snow fell . 10 ~ feet deep Oh a
level.
$780, Delaware closed Dec. -; Suseuehanna
closed Dec. u: Jan. 10. as cold weather as re-
mcmbered in 50 years: at south and west eX-
treinely cold.
l.E -S-Winter long and cold: Hudson river
closed in November: Delaware frozen over Dec.
|. open again Feb. i.
l.9s- "a long and severe winter. with much
snow; March Il. deep snow.
l.@-Cold weather in spring: ice April ~
frost June
l.W-lsU-A remarkably open winter until
Jan. d: Delaware open again on 18th; snow ]
feet deep in Georgia; snow and hail At st.
Mary's river in Florida.
lSG-Na :. Ice: on the SIN, q snow WHICH
broke down the poplars and other trees in leaf.
l~S.s-a-Hudson river closed Dec. a3; free from
ice April.
lSa..3o-Hudson river at Albany closed Jan.
II 1880. and free from ice again March 10.
lS:SJ-l- Winter very cold at southwest: ice
formed at New Orleans.
ls35-January and February both very cold;
Feb. 5, thermometer fell below zero nearly all
over the country north OF savannah and
Natchez. Long Island sound was closed by ice;
coolest winter since la.3-o1.
March was the coolest month of the winter
of lel2 3; snow II niche. deep III Georgia. Az
gust. a remarkably heavy rainfall in Newark,
y. j., Isl inches: al Lainbertyiile. l5.36 inches.
Hudson river free from ice at Albany April IL.
having closed Nov. ri. lr42.
Winter of ISL cold: mean temperatures OF
the months. ) u 5 degrees below the average:
the East river was crossed Oh the ice Jan. -,
and for three days following: Susquelan IA 4;
Havre de Grace frozen over for seven weeks:
cold and SHOWS as lar south as New Orleans
ard Jacksonville.
Trenton Gazette.