The times., 1898-11-23
COLD wave is DUE HERE |
Thermometer Expected to
Drop Twenty-Five Degrees.
CHILLY WESTERN WINDS
Washington VIII Have Fine
Thanksgiving weather-Blizxnrd
SurEing Through the Central
States-Freexing Temperature ON
the Gulf Coast-No Snowfall Here.

THE man in the weather bureau, who
looks to the West for Winter winds and
blizzards, says a cold wave will reach
Washington today. 1t will begin 10 ar
rive early-about daylight-and by the
time it is all here, which will be evening,
the temperature will have fallen 25 de-
grees.
Going further into the future, the
weather man says the National Capital
will have a regular New England Thanks
giving, with cold, crisp air, the kind that
makes the celery snap. and the cram
berries hard, and the skies will be clear,
as all Thanksgiving skies should be-
1t will not snow; 1t will just be cold;
not quite to the zero mark, but sufficient
ly delightful and refreshing as to make
the man who has not yet purchased an
overcoat walk around with his hands In
his pockets and explain to his friends that
he is from the North. where they would
call such weather as this Indian Sum
mer, and build the Kitchen hres IN their
shirt sleeves.
This fall in temperature Will not De
confined to- Washington. 1t will extend
into all the country round about mere
down the Shenandoah Valley, where eff
fete cranberry jelly is unknown, and
where the turkey is aided and abetted by
the good, old kind OF cranberry sauce.
with lots of juice and the hulls on; over
into Alexandria, where ducks an geese
have supplanted the turkey as ranks
giving diet, and are considered the prop
er thing. and even into the less preten-
tious suburbs, Baltimore particularly,
where the people eat their Thanksgiving
dinners in hotels.
The cold wave from the Rocky Noun
tains passed the Middle West yesterday
and reached Pittsburg and the region of
the Allegheny Mountains early last
night, forcing the thermometer down
thirty and forty degrees on both sides of
the Mississippi and from the lakes on
the north TO the gulf region.
The weather bulletins from the West
received at the central bureau here late
last night reported fall of forty-two
degrees in Chicago and Cincinnati and
a fall of forty degrees In indianapolis
The wave is moving rapidly eastward
and reached Pittsburg early last even
ing. where a drop of thirty degrees was
recorded. 1t passed over the mountains
later in the evening. and the forecaster
claimed that IL should be felt here early
this morning, the prospects being that
the weather will be clear early in the
day and that 1t viii continue SO until af-
ter tomorrow.
The wave has been accompanied by
| snow in the West. but tie fall has been
slight and in iurries.
In Tennessee the weather was below
! the freezing point all day yesterday. The
| thermometer went down to thirty-six de-
| grees; on the Gulf Coast fall of twen-
| ty-four degrees being recorded at Mobile.
twenty-eight degrees at New Orleans,
and thirty-four degrees at Galveston.
| The freezing point was reached at these
| places last night. and The probabilities
| are that the same was true of Northern
| Florida.
The fall in the temperature today will
be general throughout the East. from
| Northern New York to the South At an
| tic States. The weather bureau states
that an area of low barometric readings
| is responsible for the blizzard. The storm
has been attended by northerly and
northwesterly winds. and the gale ha:
| been blowing on the lakes. No wind is
| predicted here, however. II is possible
that there will be nurries of snow in ths
Alleghanies today and tonight but no
| here