The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-14
FORECAST FOR TODAY.
Generally Fair Weather and Rising
Temperatmre Predicted.

Generally Fair weather and Rising
Temperature Predicted.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, s p. m.-Forecast
for twenty-four hours:
For Ohio-Fair; not so cold; fresh winds
becoming southerly.
For Enthusiastically fair, except pos
sibly snow in extreme northwest portion;
rising temperature; southerly winds.
For Illinois-Fair in southern, probably
snow in northern portion; rising tempera-
ture, southerly winds.
Weather Conditions-Since Sunday night
the Atlantic coast storm has moved from
Florida to the Massachusetts coast with
velocity and increased intensity such as has
been seldom equaled in the history of the
Weather Bureau The barometer at Woods
Hole tonight reads 2S.S6 inches fall of one
inch since a. m. Monday. Remarkably
heavy snow has accompanied this storm
and still continues at D. m, from Virginia
northward Accompanying the snow there
were northerly winds of hurricane velocities
and hurricane warnings were issued at noon
on the Atlantic coast from Delaware Break
water to PASSPORT. So severe has been this
storm that there has been an almost total
paralysis of all classes of business in the
middle Atlantic States. In the vicinity OF
Washington this storm has greatly exceeded
all previous records. About twenty inches
of snow has fallen since Saturday afternoon
and thirty-four inches during the past eight
days. OF equal interest with this storm has
been the record breaking low temperatures
of the South. At New Orleans this morning
the temperature was six degrees above zero,
nine degrees lower than any previous record,
while at Jacksonville it was ten degrees
a f07lY6 fha,
previous record. The observer at Jackson
vile reports heavy snow and sleet during
sunday night and that great damage has
been done to the crops.
The line of freezing temperature in Florida
extended through the upper two-thirds of
the state with minimum of twenty-eghu
degrees at Tampa. At Key West tonight
the temperature is only forty-eight degrees
twenty-three degrees below the normal
Warnings of this destructive freeze were
issued during Saturday and Sunday and sup
plemented for Florida this morning. Warn
mgS OF the n0rther and much colder weather
were issued this morning for Havana and
the Bahamas, the same being indicated for
Tuesday morning. The line of zero tempera-
ture this morning extends through southern
Louisiana, southern Mississippi, Alabama
and central Georgia, but during the dav
there has been a steady rise in the South
west and tonight the temperatures range
from twenty degrees to fifty degrees
Throughout the central valleys, lake regions
and the West the temperatures have risen
from ten to thirty-eight degrees, and are
above the freezing point in the slope regions.
Generally fair weather has also continued in
these districts. On the Pacific coast and
plateau region there has been practically no
change.
Clearing weather is indicated during Tues
day morning in the middle Atlantic States
and New England, except on the New Eng
land coast where the snow will likely con-
tinue during the day Fair weather is indi-
Gated for the remaining districts except the
upper Mississippi valley, where light SHOWS
are likely. Rising temperatures are indi-
Gated generally from the Mississippi to the
Alleghenies, and also in the gulf and south
Atlantic States In the middle Atlantic and
New England States cold weather will con-
tInue for another day.
Dangerously high northwesterly winds
will prevail during Tuesday in New England
and the upper portion of the middle Atlantic
States, high northwest winds on the North
Carolina and Virginia coast, slowly dimin-
fishing during the day, and brisk west to
south winds on the coast.