Arizona republican., 1899-02-07

| the north of us received a like cover 1 ing. Colorado for two weeks has been having the heaviest snow storms ever
 known in the history of the state. At Denver this morning the thermometer
 registered 20 degrees below zero and Flagstaff was not much warmer, the coldest there being 16 below zero, and St. Paul. away to the north, was 14 be- 1 low, and Chicago only above.
 t-All the southwest, the same as all the inter-mOuntain country and the Mississippi valley is suffering from 9 fall in temperature, so Phoenix is not alone in it. The cOldest reading at San Diego this morning was 5 de- grees, at Los Angeles 34, Yuma 34, Gl Paso 2G, Phoenix 30. AS these read ingS are made at the weather Ob5erva- tories up on top of buildings whe"e there is a free circulation of air, they indicate frost at all these points. There is oftimes a difference of five to
 eight degrees between the tempeEa-
 ture IF. some distance from the ground and the temperature within six inches
 Of the ground.
 For the benefit of eastern visitors
 and those who are complaining of
 cold it might be cons0ling for them to
 know something of the conditions in
 the east for the past ten days. An
 area of high barometer developed
 over the upper lake region on January
 27th and by the 29th, week ago Sunday, the center Of that cold wave was over Chicago, where the temperature dropped to 13 degrees Below zero and St Louis had a temperature of six be- low. On the 2Sth and while the first cold wave was gathering it's forces for a raid on the eastern middle states, an other storm was developing up ia northern Montana and the Can2ci Il northwest which reached Kansas and neighboring states on the 30th send ing the thermOmeter down from ten U twenty degrees below zero.
 :'But Old Boreas was not content with this second edition, TOT with a third one, for he has kept his cold wave shop working overtime right along. Just as this second wave had gotten into good working order over Kansas and the other states Of that re- zion, a third cold storm was starting up in western Wyoming and northern Idaho. This one took southerly di- rection following along the mountains till it reached Colorado and then vee"- ed off to the east and south over the plains, giving Texas the full benefit Of it's force.
 s.On February 1st the cold wave maker moved further west and Cn that date started his storm in the state of Washington, part of it sweeping over the inter-mOuntain country and part of it following down the coast. San Francisco was right in it's path, having the coldest weather the morning of the 4th that has been recorded in years. San Jose and the Santa Clara valley felt it too and the frost there did much damage, particularly to the almond crop as the trees were in bloom having been put ahead by the very warm weather of the last half of January.
 ''The temperature here tonight will no doubt go lower than it did Sunday night. Almond trees around Mesa are in bloom and there is danger of to- nights frost killing the entire crop. Otherwise than running the almond crop it will not likely do any damage. So altogether, while it may seem cold to the average resident of Phoenix. he may well thank his stars that he lives in such delightfully."- sunshiny sec tion. Compared to the rest of the country for the last ten days, the Phoenician has been living in an earthly paradise"