The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-22
THE HOTTEST on RECORD.
The Temperature This Month Higher
Than Ever Known In March.

Mercury Up to So Degrees Yesterday.
The Earliest the Pride of India Has
Bloomed Since -Blackberries
Half Grown and Vegetation Far Adj
vanced- Figures From the Weather
Bureau Records.
The records of the weather bureau at
Savannah show that the present month.
up to date. is the warmcst since the es-
tablishment Of the bureau here twenty
three years ago. II is not only the hot
test March on record. but the tempera-
ture has been very much higher than
usual.
The average mean temperature for
March for twenty-threc years is 587
The average mean temperature so far
this month is e. The highest
previous mean. temperature for the month
was "a in 1873, 1850 and 1852.
Although the month has been very
warm the highest temperature previously
recorded for March has not been eXcelled,
being 81 on March 20. 1852. The month
has been uniformly hot from the begin
ming, however. March Ii, IA and Is, the
thermometer recorded So, on the nth,
81 on the 18th S4.S', on the 18th So, and
yesterday S5' The lowest temperature
recorded this month was 46' March 3.
The lowest temperature on record for the
month was PC on March l6, 1890
II DEGREES ABOVE THE NORMAL.
Yesterday the maximum temperature
was 50 the minimum Is and the mean
767, u above the normal There is an
excess Of temperature for the month Of
ls7', and since Jan. / of 216'. Not only
mas the month been very warm, but it
has been very cry as well. On the early
morning of March ! nearly an inch of rain
fell. Since that time only about half an
inch has fallen. There is now
deficiency Of inches of rainfall since
Jan. /.
While Savannah is sweltering in the
heat the people out in the northwest are
enjoying a cold wave from 6 to II inches
of snow having fallen in Nebraska yes
terday.
The result of the unusually warm
weather here is that vegetation of all
| kinds is advanced TO a remarkable stage
for the season. Truck crops of all kinds
are away ahead Of previous seasons and
the farmers are very apprehensiye
of a cold wave which would do immense
| damage now. Shipments of truck are
already being made, and the crops will
be rushed to market as fast as possible in
anticipation Of a possible frost that may
occur the latter part of the month or
early in April. Killing frosts have oc-
| Cured before as late as April =
BLACKBERRIEs NEARLY GROWN.
The unusual weather and the remark
able development Of vegetation surpasses
the memory of the Oldest nhabitant DR.
A. Oemler brought to the MORNING News
Office yesterday some half-grown black
! berries which he plucked near
Conner, Hull x Co.'S fertilizer works
At this rate there will be
ripe blackberries by the middle Of April.
| DR.. Oemler's book, Truck Farming in
/ the South" has record of the weather
| in March from 1875 to 1861. This record
| shows that in 1912 the last white frost
| occurred on Feb "A. On March % the
| Pride of India was in bloom, and on April
! z blaCkberries were ripe. The Pride of
! India (chinaberry tree has been in bloom
| a day or two, being at least five days in
| advance of the same event in March, 1912
! Weather Observer Smyth said last
night that the prospects are fair for this
section to escape a killing frost this
| spring. The indications at midnight
were that the storm in the northwest
would move eastward north of the Ohio
river. If the storm in Texas devel-
ops, however, colder weather will
be felt in the section. The OBJ
server said that it would require
a temperature of 3S' to 40o to do serious
damage this month, while a fall of 42o
next month would do serious damage to
the growing crops. If no killing frost
occurs the truck farmers will get their
crops to market this spring earlier than
ever before in the history of the truck
business.