St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-04
TODAY EVEN IF 1T DOES
STAY COLD.
NO SIGNS OF SNOW STORMS
ING'S NORTHWESTERN OBJ
SERyATIONS,
AND IT MAY MODERATE TONIGHT.
Is General Between the Great
Lakes and Mountains.

This is the only genuine winter
weather since the months of January
and February last year. said Prof
Lyons, of the United States weather
bureau, yesterday. Prof. Lyons then
went on to say that the present cold
wave was moving from the Arctic re-
gions in a southeasterIy direction, and
that the temperature and barometric
conditions were almost identical with
those accompanying the cold wave of
last winter that extended south into
Florida and played sad havoc with the
orange crop. This wave was sweeping
nj the same direction now at a rate of
800 to 1000 miles per day, and unless
some unforeseen change took place, the
results would probably be very similar
The crest Of the wave, as it were, had
not yet reached st. Paul, Prof. Lyons
said, but would before this morning
and still greater fall in the temper
AZURE would accompany it, though the
wind would abate, which would result
In the cold being less keenly felt. The
lowest temperature for the tWenty-four
hours preceding o'clock last evening
was IL deg below zero, while the high
est was below, the temperature at
O'Clock yesterday afternoon The wind
blew from twenty to twenty-five miles
an hour yesterday morning, making the
weather feel about as cold as it would
were the temperature 40 below and the
atmosphere still. Prof. Lyons said the
colo wave had not yet struck the At
lantic seaboard, but would be felt there
by tonight or tomorrow morning.
AT Calgary, up in the British possess
slons, the point at which the cold was
most intense, and from which the
wave seems to have shaped it's course.
the barometer was 31.2 and the tenn
perature "a deg below zero. AS the
wave moved southwest it lost consid-
cradle of its severity, though enough
seems to have been left to satisfy the
inhabitants of the North Star state.
1t is easy to understand this when it
is known that deg below zero, the
highest temperature for the twenty
four hours preceding o'clock last
evening, was 4 deg colder than the
lowest temperature on any previous
day this winter, and as a maximum
record for a cold day was only beaten
ty two days last winter, jan "a and
one day in February, when the high
est temperature for the day was to
deg lower. There was a stiff wind
all through the Northwest yesterday.
the velocity varying from fourteen to
twenty miles an hour, according to the
varying conditions of locality.
Prof. Lyons said there was no in
dlcation OF an approaching snowstorm
yesterday. The only conditions that
would bring snow would be a warm
wind loaded with moisture blowing I'D
from the gulf and coming in contact
with cold atmosphere in the northern
regions. This would result in the con-
denSation Of the moisture and it would
fall in snow.
Last night 1t was stated at the
weather office that the temperature be-
fore morning would probably be lower
than during the previous night. but
that moderation might be expected
this evening. The temperatures north
west of ST. Paul remained much the
same as on the day before. 1t was
probable, however, that there would be
less wind today than yesterday.
The daily weather report of the
Northern Pacific giving the observa-
tons at o'clock yesterday morning
gives an excellent idea of the extent of
the cold area, Livingston and Bozeman
being the only observers east of Mis-
soula where the thermometer regis
tered above zero. On the western slope
the mercury was higher. The lowest
was %, which was reported alike from
Winnipeg and Darlington. High winds,
generally northwest, prevailed gen.
orally east of Dickinson, practically
covering both states. Grand Forks.
however, very strangely reported a
calm. There was no precipitation ex-
cept at Martin, on the western slope
where light snow was in progress.
Weather bureau records show that
this spell is not unusual but that in
fact the coolest of the winter as a rule
is between New Years and Jan. r.