The morning times., 1896-12-26
NO WARMER DAYS IN SIGHT
Winter Weather Will Linger
Through the Holidays.
WEE BIT WARNER TODAY
That Means the Mercury VIII Hover
About Freezing Snow storms
Are Located and the Outbreak
Is for Bright, Crisp Weather for
Some Time to Come.

Weather Of high temperature is 10 be
annexed to the cold wave that has been
holding sway over the entire country Tor
the last few days 1t need not be sur
missed for an instant that seal skins and
ulsters can be embalned in camphor. II
is "a mere rise in temperature that viii
permit the mercury to ascend and finger
about the freezing figure.
The weather IAen nope TO move this
annex on to Washington by sometime to-
day. 1t will come so gradually, no wever,
that no one can mark the hour OF ITS ar
rival nd when it gets here it can only he
described as plain winter weather without
fringes or ruffles.
The mercury all day yesterday Kept
below freezing and the northerly breezes
that leaked in deluded people into think
ing that it was much lower than IL really
was. BY O'Clock last night it had shrunk
to % degrees. Before morning it went
two or three degrees better toward the
bulb. Even then, however, it lacked
several degrees OF the shrinkage OF last
Wednesday, when the wave was fresh and
vigorous, and succeeded in pushing the
quicksilver down to IA degrees.
just Above Freezing.
The batch OF new stuff expected in
today, the weather folks say, will dent the
bulb until the metal viii leap up 20 the
40 peg, anyhow. At no time during the
next twenty-four hours from then, / 5 it
expected to fall below 80 degrees.
Just what attractions for the eye will
come along with the rest the weather
ma kers have not yet decided 1t is
momentous undertaking TO move about
a new batch OF weather and dispose Of
the old stock at the same time. Some OF
the atmosphere manufacturers are on "a
holiday vacation, too, and the moving
force is naturally crippled. Probably
fair is the only explanation about the
condition Of the sky that could be gained
last night.
The announcement can be positively
made-not by authority Of the Weather
Bureau-'hat it will not remain clear
always At the bureauiJ is believed that
there will be considerable cloudineSs by
this evening. But no authority is given
TO make wagers on this
The Hberality OF the traffic kers in
weather at the Christmas season is also
worthy OF nCte. There has not been a
! square mile OF territory east Of the Rockies
that has not had temperature low enough
for yuletide 1t is true that the Gulf
States have not had the chilly material
that has Interested the dwellers on the
Lakes and up in the hills OF the Pine
State, but the weather has been as cold
as could be desired in the former locality
and gentle frOStS have been making nightly
raids on the farm lands of the Southern
| States.
| Nnthinp Warm in SiOhf
Like most other weather attractions, the
present one IS 10 he pushed off into the
sea, now that the land lubbers are thIolgh
| with it. The sea has 4 Charming facility
for swallowing up weather as well as
| anything else.
| There is wee possibility that another
| bargain Just like the present one may
get here in time for New Years II has
| always been a hobby with the weather
| man. it Is said, TO raise twins il Christmas
and New Years weather attractions il
| arrangements for such an event can be
| possibly made That is the reason they
| have a storm brewing. they say, away
| off in one Of the weather distlierieS OF the
Rockies 1t is hard 10 locate the stin TO a
certainty, but 1T is somewhere in the
Montana State. In case the article starts
this way its coming VIII be announced in
due time.
| Until then there viii be no cessation
| in the spell Of n oderate temperature and
! everything from a clear winter day to
an energetic blizzard Of moderately high
temperature tension can be expected dur
| ing the coming week.