The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-30
CoLDEST SINCE 1897
YESTERDAY WAS A REAL ON
FASHIONED MINNESOTA
WINTER DAY
MERCURY WAS UNAMBITIoUS

Was Content to Loaf Near the Bulb
All Day-There May BE a Slight
Rise Today, but the Cold SPELL
Is Not Yet Ended by Any Means
Trouble for Boreas snfd to NJ
Brewing In Montana.
with the thermometer registering "a
uesrees below zero the local weather
bureau yesterday recorded the coolest
day In st. Paul for two years. The
COLO wave was constant. too. and with
sharp wind blowing down from the
northwest, conspired to impress the
populace with the idea that old Boreas
was dishing out some of the old-time
Minnesota concoction The mercury
began its descent early Saturday even
Ing, and had reached 20 degrees below
by midnight. Cuddling up close to the
lowest notch reached during the early
hours or the morning it remained per-
sistentiy at low ebb until well along
a1ter sunrise yesterday And when
the change came 1t was almost unap-
preclabie to any save the weather man
with his thermograph and other deli
cate instruments, so people who were
compelled to be out yesterday really,
underwent the rigors of severe wealth.
er. Observer Lyons holds out some en-
couragement. however, as he says the
indications point to a rise in tempera-
ture today, probably from 10 to 1e de-
grees.
Ihe cold nearest approaching that of
the present cold wave prevailed Feb
Ia, 1897, when 1t was also just % de-
grees below zero. Since this time OBJ
server Lyons has been doing the best
ne could to head off the blizzards gen
Grated about Medicine Hat that seem
to inevitably head this way. and. from
the records of his office. with some
show of success.
1T WAS UNEXPECTED.
He was taken unawares this time
however, and excuses himself on the
ground that the descent of the present
colo wave was under conditions some-
what unusual. Everything was lovely
FRIDAY when the temperature began
TO rise, and the most pleasant winter
weather, just enough cold to be brac-
ing In It's effects, yet not uncomfortab BILE
semed about to settle over ST. PauI
The mercury moved along slowly until
reaching about IL degrees above zero
at o'clock in the evening. when. pres
10, along came the front end of the cold
wave, entirely unannounced. Carving
az OF the m1lder area before it, and
scarcely had even the weather observer
tlme to register the change when the
city was in the midst of the coldest
weather for two years, the change.
with a fall of more than 80 degrees in
temperature, having come about with
III 1eW hours. And with ali of the
eold OF yesterday Observer Lyons says
.lls locallty has not felt the seyerest
effects of the cold wave. as it is stfll
central over Manitoba, where; at Min
nedosa, 1t was yesterday 40 degrees
below.
MAY BE MODERATED.
But one hope is held out Trouble
for the cold wave has started out in
montana in the nature of quite an ex-
panslve area of low barometer. and
when these two conflicting atmospher-
1cal conditions get together Boreas,
hilarity may be subdued. The resuIt
is due to be a sort of general mixing
~ " S%>|iShiSS WHICH, according to
Weather Observer Lyons. ought to
bring out about milder conditions here
The observations throughout Montana
yesterday showed general rise in
temperature, and the same conditions
ought to prevail in this locality TODAY
1t will continue to be cold enough for
ordinary purposes, however, for a
couple of days yet, and then-it will
probably get colder. The weather bu-
reau does not go this far ahead, but
observer Lyons says this winter has.
as a matter of fact, been a genuine
Minnesota affair, starting in early.
with plenty of cold weather here and
there up to date, and every reason to
believe that there will be more of it.
The cold has been so general through
the season so far that the ice in the
river has practically been freezing
since the winter set in, until it
has reached thickness of three feet.
another state of affairs which. accord
Ing to the weather bureau, has not
taken place before since 1897.
The Washington forecast for local
weather today is:
Fair; westerly winds.