The Portland daily press., 1899-02-14
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IL was o bowler.
Nothing like the fury and teroeness of
yesterdays : storm has been seen here this
s,nson. 1t was, IL fact the first real snow
storm of the old fashioned variety which
Portland has seen this year and though It
has been a long time coming IL made up
for the delay in the matter of fact way In
which 1t settled down to work when it
got fairly started.
1t began at seven O'Clock when the first
flakes began falling, with the mercury
hugging The zero point pretty closely. 1t
increased in ferceness as the forenoon
wore away, developed into baby blizzard
by noon. rapidly grew until 1t might be
called the real thing and continued to
howl and blow with "a steady fall of dry
snow ard "a cold wind which penetrated
through the chinks in the walls, ratified
the windows, kicked up an awful sea in
tile harbor, raised big drifts and then tore
them to pieces with the capriciousness of
a child. blocked up railroads, put an end
to business and altogether behaved as
these February storms usually do in this
secti on of the country.
Snow began falling here yesterday
morning about seven O'Clock and those
to whom zero weather was getting very
tiresome, in the light Of their past expert
enca and observations of the weather,
might have reasonably inferred that it
was the forefront of warmer wave. But
such Was not the case, and this is the re-
markable thing about yesterday s storm
that the Thermometer reached no dizzy
height. but clung renaciously to the zero
point not getting at any tins beyond
eight degrees above.
The storm of yesterday is what might
be called sea storm and on Saturday
morning the edge of 1t appeared on the
map on the south co,st of Florida, from
which point 1t moved northward slowly
reaching the Carolinas by Sunday night
Yesterday morning 1t got as far as New
York, and while the weather conditions
here yesterday morning were not alto
Z, ther salu brious, still the storm, in the
eyes of the weather bureau man, could
not be regarded as having struck US until
abOul HOOn. lut hAuu bueIt
struck lively pace of about 20 to 80 miles
An hour and having a quite heavy body Of
falling snow to work ON sent 1t whirlin z
along the streets, piling 1t up in drifts
here and there apd making it unoomfoIt-
ale for man and beast.
While the storm was following the
southern coast accompanied by an ex-
tIemely low temperature the cold wave
from the northwest WAS making shiver
run down the backs of our southern
yesterday morning thermometer of six
below zero was recorded, and at Mont.
gomery, Ala, 1t was four below, while at
the same time Charlston was a storm cen
ter with Thermometer of sixteen above
South of these points it was impossible
to say what the meteorological conditions
we1e, for the lines were all down which
cut of communication
There is ray of hope which comes
from the far northwest indicating that
the present cold wave has finished Its
career. In Montana there has been a
change of at least seventy degrees for the
better In the last forty eight hours. Sat
urday night 1t was forty degrees below in
this section. while yesterday the ther-
mometer climbed to from thirty to forty
degrees above.
The long continued cold showed It's
effects in the harbor yesterday, where the
channel at certain stages of the tide had
much floating ice which formed along the
pathway of the ferry boat making her
trips troublesome. Ii packed in hooks