The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-02
AND RAW WIND
WINTER SENT SOME OF HIS USUAL COM
PANIOHS TO VISIT HERE
Mercury Began to Drop Rapidly
and the Snow stopped, but It Was
Cold and Windy All Night-First
SeasCnabIe Conditions Expert
enced Here In Several Weeks.

| enced Here In Several Weeks.
Old Winter, who deserted st. Paul
almost the very day after his arrival
two months ago, came back yesterday
from his sojourn in the Eastern states.
Whether this is but another flying Wis
1t or whether the old gentleman has
come to stay for the remainder Of this
season, in his old-fashioned way, there
is no telling. But it is suspected that
| he Is little tired Of those New Eng
| land folks and their Boston diet, and
will linger with his old time friends,
even if he has to sit in Mays lap for
a few days.
His arrival in ST. Paul was heralded
by whistling winds that cut around
the corners of tall buildings at high
rate Of speed and a reduced rate of
temperature that picked up the dust,
Whirled it around pedestrians and in
situated it into their eyes and mouths
and altogether made things most I'M
| comfortable. But Old Winter was on
the way to put stop to this. He got
here yesterday and proceeded to smoth-
er the irritating dust with blanket
Of the beautiful. At the same time, he
passed around and put a coat of frost
on the bulb of every thermometer in
town, that they might come down in
harmony with the snow. But, in his
enthusiasm, the old gentleman over
reached himself a trif1e, for the Their
mometric spirits dropped so fast that
the snow flakes gave up the contest
and ceased to fall soon after sunset.
This was a ppOintment to the cit
liens in general and to liVerymen in
particular, who were beginning to dust
off their cutters and sleighs, which
have been in a state of innocuous
desuetude for almost year.
R11t e
IDENTIFY expected that Winter will steady
down and give st. Paul a good thick
coat that will hide the bleak pave
ments from view until the church
choirs begin rehearsing their Easter
anthems.
All night the temperature continued
falling.
January's weather here was unusual,
but not unprecedented, says Observer
Lyons in his monthly summary.
The average temperature at st. Paul
and vicinity during the month of jan
uary, as determined from the last
twenty eight years record, is II de-
grees; the mean for January, 1898, was
nearly double that, % degrees. The
corresponding month in 1880 is the only
one since 1870 that was warmer than 1t;
it's mean being 26 degrees: the coolest
January since 1870 was that of 1888.
sometimes referred to as the one of
the last ice palace" when it averag
ed 1 degree below zero. The highest
and lowest temperature registered last
month was 43 above and 2 below zero,
the dates being the 5th and 1st, re-
spectively. While January, 1880, aver
aged 3 degrees warmer, it was not a
month of such evennesS as the one
just ended, it's highest and lowest be-
ing As above and II below zero. A
minimum temperature ranging from 10
70 1o1n hoe ric,ta
January since 1870, except that of 1891
when it was only 2 below Zero same
as that for last month.
The average precipitation-rain and
melted snOw-determined same as tenn
perature. is 0.9S of an inch;
all the moisture had last month was
in the form of snow, that fell in suf-
ficient quantity to be measured on two
days, and yielded O.04 inch of water
The corresponding month in 1892 only
had less, the amount being 002 inches.
The wettest January on record is cred
tied to 1881, when there was ABA inches
precipitation.
The mean barometer, reduced to sea
level, was 3005 inches; highest 3O.O2 on
the list; lowest, 2949, on the 18th. The
wind blew oftener from northwest
+ than from any other point; highest We
locity, northwest, 80 miles an hour, de-
termined from five minutes records on
the Goth.
From records covering twenty-seven
years Observer Lyons has compiled the
following normal February weather:
Mean or normal temperature, Is de-
grees; the warmest February was in 1877,
with an average of SO degrees; coolest in
1875, with average of I degrees. The
highest temperature was 81 degrees F. b.
26, 1895; lowest-33 degrees on Feb. g. 1888.
Average precipitation for the month.
O.9O inches average number of DAYS with
| .O1 of an inch more, 8. The
greatest monthly precipitation was 255
inches in 1881 the least, DOL inches in
1877. The greatest amount of precipita-
ton recorded in any "a consecutive hours
was ll2 inches. Feb. 81. 1893, when the
snowfall was 1919 inches. Average num-
Der of clear days g. partly cloudy days,
II: cloudy days, 9. The prevailing WINS
have been from the southeast The high
est velocity was AZ miles, from the west.
Feb. Il 1S76 and northwest Feb 10 tSae