The Portland daily press., 1895-12-14

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sleeping-Records of the Mercury in
Various Places.
Boston, December 13.-Looal forecast
for Saturday: Generally fair; slightly
warmer; north to east winds with gales
off the coast.
Washington, December 13-Forecast
for Saturday for New England: Threaten
ing weather snow near the coast; fair In
the interior; Dortherly winds with
dangerous gales on the coast; warmer in
the interior. The weather conditions and
general forecast say the storm on the
North Carolina coast this morning in
creased in energy and dangerous gales
prevail as far north as South New Eng
land. The centre of disturbance is now
apparently east of Hatteras, where the
wind has reached a velocity of sixty-eigh
miles an hour in that vicinity today.
The barometer has fallen rapidly from
Minnesota, and as risen in Montana,
and the Southern States east of the
Mississippi. 1t is colder in the South
Atlantic States and at the North Rocky
Mountains station. 1t is warmer from
the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains
and in the Lake regions. Fair weather
prevailed except along the South New
England and Middle Atlantic coasts
where local SHOWS are reported.
The weather will be warmer and fair
throughout the Central Valleys and
Southern States. Dangerous gales are
likely to continue on the New England
and Middle Atlantic coasts, and it is not
safe for any vessel to leave port. Singals
are displayed on the Atlantic coast from
Norfolk and that section to Eastport, ex-
cept Baltimore.
A DROP IN THE MERCURY.
At Concord, N. H., the mercury took
another big drop Thursday night, yester-
day morning being the coldes5 of the
winter. The thermometer registered
twenty degrees below zero at Concord at
six o'clock. Other places in that section
report as follows, all below zero: Potter
Place sixteen, Soytheyille sixteen, Leba.
non eighteen, Sunoook twenty, Newport
twenty, Ciaremont junction twenty.
Franklin twenty, Wilmot Flat twenty,
Contoocook twenty one, Canaan twenty
two, West Concord twenty five, Peter
boro twenty five, Elmwood twenty eight.
In the Contoooook Valley, be tween
Hillsboro Bridge and Peterboro the
temperature ranged from twenty to
twenty eight below.
Conway Junction, N. H., December 49,
This morning was the coldest of the
season, the glass registering ten below
zero. Reports from along the line of the
Northern Division Of the Boston and
Maine are to the effect that thermometers
ranged from zero to twenty below. Th 9
coldest places reported are New Durham,
twenty below, and Union, seven teen be-
low.
Hanover, N. H., December 13.-The
mercury here fell OF fifteen degrees below
zero last night. Norwich, Vt, reports
twenty below Thetford, eighteen; Lyme,
N. H., twenty. There is only about one
inch of snow on the ground.
Nantucket, Mass. December 13.-The
northeast gale for the past three days had
just began to die out when second
storm, now coming up the Atlantic
coast, caused it to spring up with in
creased violence
ports of yesterdays storm show wide
spread devastation. The whole coast was
swept. Full details cannot be received
for some days yet. Steamer Carthaginian
has not arrived, and the steamer Porita
is three days out from Halifax the longest
passage she ever made. 1t is feared she is
damaged.
Lancaster, N. H, December lathe
mercury was sixteen below this morning
twenty at Groveton,f thirty at Beeoher
Falls and twenty three at Berlin, N. Fl.
Nasbau, N. H., December 1s.-The
mercury is five below. and is the COOLEST
Of the season.