The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-11-18
FIRST SNOW DATES
When Wichita Has Had Her
Earliest Falls of 1t.
COOLEST DAYS OF WINTER
Record of the Coolest Weather
Wichita Has Seen.

Winter as Wichita knows her, she Of
the biting blast and envel0ping snow fan.
is all fckleness can imply. Like a con-
drned coqUette, she is sudden and unex-
pected in her embraces, lingering in the
North some times until nearly the equi-
noX before she swoops down, at other
times rushing in with her robe Of snow
in the midst Of glowing Indian summer.
People in the Wichita latitude judge
winters beginning largely by snow
storms Winter IS not popularity supposed
TO be here with all due Difference to as
Economical solstices and almanic data,
until Tiny fakes Of white come sitting
down. nesting among the grass roots
charging fence posts and arbors into
strange architectural figures.
And the snow is liable to come any
time
Once a light one came Pickering down
as early as October ID. Once we did not
have any snow until January l.
When win it come this year. The In
dian summer has hung ON long beyond
its appointed limit. Only the last week
the leaves, badly curled but tenacious Of
life. were holding on and the natural
grass was clinging obstinateI to its
green. But as the week has worn away
the air has become crispier ,snd the early
morning hours cold and the trees are
growing bare.
Dr. johnson Of the weather bureau has
a record of ali the first SHOWS. which
the Eagle is enabled to publish through
his courtesy as well as a table showing
when Wichita has weathered its rough
est times, almost invariably in January
and February
In the winter Of 1SSS-'S9 occurred the
phenomenal early heavy snow storm. on
November and November Q, in the niebt
time, there fell ia 1855 ten inches Of
snow Ii was a complete surprise. Peo-
PIE away from home were divorced from
overcoats and heavy underwear Hotels (
were caught without heating coal. House /
holds stamDeded to kitchens because. sit [
ting room stoves were not up. Trains /
were al bloCkaded The street cars fin
Wichita did not get block away from
the barns.
The next year. lS99-'90, the winter was I
disappointing in the snow line, for the
nrst snow did not fail until November q. /
and then it was only a few SCATTERING.
lonesome fakes. December came and /
no snow with it and January 1 saw the
ground bare. However. a few days later .
the snow came on for three davs. IAN /
uary s. G and in 1890.
In The winter of 1890-91 the people /
waited long for winter to begin. October
passed with no sign Of the heavenly /
feathers, so did November. so did De-
cember But on The New Years day.
laSl. little fen and week later. Jan
uary 8. heavy fall followed.
In the winter Of 1912 there was a
trace on November % but the first snow
Of consequence that year did not come
uutn December 6. 1891
Ia the winter of 1929 November II
dawned gloomy and spread a light snow
over the earth. which soon melted. Bor-
cas-. however, made up for lost time on
December 2 when there was a heavy
snow
In 1854. winter hurried along and
launched a terrific blur early by scatter
ing few fakes on October II. But this
was ONLY a bluff and so iu the same wear
on November II was the slight fan .
h.uf But snow came in earnest in
1893 on December ., when it covered the
earth.
La lS94-95 there was a trace Of snow
rs early as November g. but it was not
sufficient to call out overcoats. How
ever. on Christmas day and the day fol-
lowing in 1884 II showed six inches. an
unusually deep snow for this climate.
Ina 1855 there was a light snow on
November ., another Of the same nature
ON December - and not much other snow
ilat winter until March 1896. when il