The evening times., 1899-02-14
THE STORMS DEPARTURE
Passes on TO Nova Scotia With
Agreeable Celebrity.
The Weather Bureau today issued the

The. great Atlantic coast storm has Dassed
on To the Nova Scotia coast with rapid velocity
aud almost unprecedented development Al
Woods Hole Mass, Monday night at 4 N n,
The barometer read $50 inches. fall Of ore
inch IN Twelve hours; al Nantucket at midnight
The reading was 2S.5G inches, and this morning
at Halifax .e.'H inches. Owing to the extent
and extreme destructivencss, this storm will al
WAYS bc remembered as the greatest storm in
the history Of the Atlantic coast States and was
most ronaI kIble for the perfect combination of
the conditions necessary to produce such results
An abnormaly high barometric area acconpan-
led 10y severe cold was moving south
eastward 10 the Gulf States and a disturbance
WAS developing its southeastern edge The
result inevitable, and rapidly as possible
widespread warnings were distributed on Satur-
DAY in the west Gulf States of impending severe
freezing weather on the coasts Saturday night
the warnings We're extended to Florida, and both
were further supplemented on Sunday morning
hy additional and more positive warnings
Northern warnings were also sent on Monday to
Havana and the Bahamas.
While the immense loss OF property is to be
greatly depored, it is gratifying to learn that
as much as possible was saved by the timeliness
of the warnings. Nearly all temperature records
were broken in the Gulf and South Atlantic
States. The temperature at New Orleans reached
q degrees. degrees lower than any previous rec
ord; at jacksonville, 10 degrees, or 4 degrees
below the record, with heavy and sleet
and at Jupiter minimum OF 2S degrees was
reached this morning. Information as TO the
extent Of the damage caused by this cold wave
will appear in other publications of the Weather
Bureau. As the storm moved northwaTd from
Florida the character of the destructive element
changed. While the cold continued the snowfall
became the predOminsting; and. as il afteryard
proved, very serious factor in the situation
! Snow general from Florida northward and
| the amount ranged from ten to thirty inches hut
was not well distributed, the greatest fan
| twenty inches, was reported from Nortber,
Virginia. At Washington the fall was twenty-one
| inches, a total of thirty-hye inches during
| the past eight days-by far the greatest sno,r.
| fall for at least sixty-five years, as shown hy
| the records. On Sunday morning it became e,;
| dent that heavy snow would fall in the AtI.nt;,
| and New England States, and warnings to fbi.
| effect were at once issued.
The northward movement of the storm also
| necessitated the hosting of storm signals alono
| the entire Atlantic coast by 3 p. m Sunday. nv
Monday morning it became apparent that the
| storm would prove of extreme severity ON
| account of the high winds and heavy driftino
snow. and hurricane warnings were thererlpon or.
dered along the entire coast from Delaware
! Breakwater to Eastport. The hosting of tbis
| extreme danger signal fully justified by the
resultant events, winds Of as high as y miles
| per hour were reported with binding snow
Clearing weather has rapidly followed tbe
storm and this morning it is cold and clear in
| the Atlantic region. except New England and
eastern New York, where the clouds still remain
| An area OF low pressure is approaching from the
| Vest, and under its influence the Temperatures
VIII be generally rising after Wednesday morn
| ing east OF the Alleghenies. They are rising to-
day in the central valleys and entire West.