Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-03-17
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RECORD OF SOME COLD WINTERS.
Though We Have Been Having Cold
Winter There Have Been Others

Though We Have Been Having a Cold
Winter There Have Been Others.
The impression that this is a remark
able winter and one of the old fashioned
kind led Professor John Smock, the state
geologist of New Jersey, to make .Jme
seasonable comments on the kind of
weather that our forefathers had when
this country was new. Professor Smock
has written considerable about the
weather and has finished the most com
plete record of the weather that has been
brought between the covers of book.
From the facts and figures that he has
at his command the people who became
frightened few weeks ago when the
mercury dallied around the zero point
were unjustly so, and should be con-
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 he Hudson
and the Delaware rivers were frozen
over. This record is particularly inter
esting because it tells of frost in June
and rivers full Of ice in 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
a time.
Some extracts are made from the rec
ords, and they tell their own story:
1917 Chesapeake bay nearly frozen over.
l7l7-Feb. 1924, great snow; greatest ever
known" up TO that time in New England and
on Long Island.
Naturalization in the Delaware much OBJ
structed by ice from Dec. 2 until Feb. -; Feb
Z, an OK roasted whole on the ice at Philadel-
phia; March Is, snow fell z TO 211 feet deep on a
level.
1851 Delaware closed Dec y; Susquehanna
closed Dec. q; Jan. 10, AS cold weather as re-
membered in 30 years: at south and west ex-
tremely cold
l7g-S-Winter long and cold; Hudson river
closed in November; Delaware frozen over Dec
|, open again Feb. ..
1898 "a long and severe winter, with much
snow March II, deep snow.
l71-Cold weather in spring; ice April 10
frost JuneG
1879 lsOO-A remarkably open winter until
feet deep in Georgia; snow and hail at St
Mary's river in Florida.
lS9-May Z, ice; on the Sth, a snow which
broke down the pOplars and other trees in leaf
lSS 3 Hudson river closed Dec. -; free from
ice April
1893 D-Iludson river at Albany closed Jan
II 0sDD, and free from ice again March H.
lSD-l-Winter very cold at southwest; ice
formed at New Orleans.
lsj-January and February both very cold
Feb. 8, Thermometer fell below zero nearly all
over the country north Of Savannah and
Natchez; Long Island sound was closed by ice:
coolest winter since 1913 ~.
March was the coolest month Of the winter
Of 1872 3; snow 70 inches deep in Georgia. Au-
gust, a remarkably heavy rainfall in Newark,
y. j., 22H inches; at Lambertvile, 1873 inches.
Hudson river free from ice at Albany April 10,
having CLOSED Nov. -, ls4s.
Winter Of ISLE cold; mean TEN peratures Of
the months, 10 degrees below the average:
the East river was crossed on tho ice Jan ~
and for three days following; Susquohanna at
Havre de Grace frozen over for seven weeks;
cold and SHOWS a. far south as New Orleans
aud jacksonville.
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