The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-20
" DEGREES TODAY
PREDICTED MERCURY WILL FALL
TO THAT POINT.
FREEZING POINT REACHED
AT 8 O'CLOCK YESTERDAY MORN
ING, THE LOWEST RECORD For
THE DAY.
Maximum Was At Degrees, Recorded

Maximum Was At Degrees, Recorded
mt O'clock in the Afternoon.
From That Time Mercury Fell
Rapidly and at Midnight stood at
"a Degrees - Warming Process
Starts After TO-day-HiGher Tenn
pcrature Reported Along the
Rockies and in the Middle West.
At midnight last night the Morning
News thermometer registered "a de-
grees, with the mercury still falling.
The prediction for this morning is be-
tween rs and 80 degrees. with the
chances that at o'clock mercury will
stand at the 27-degree mark. This Is
expected to mark the elimination of
the cold wave. and a gradual warming
up is predicted to follow.
The prediction for yesterday, that
the freezing point would be reached,
was verified. At 500 o'clock in the
morning mercury stood at the freezing
point, 80 degrees. This was the mini
mum temperature for the day. From
that time mercury began slowly rising
again, until it reached the maximum at
4 o'clock in the afternoon. This was AZ
degrees, record lower than the min
imum for the majority of the days in
the early part of the month.
After 4 o'clock mercury began rap
idly falling off again, dropping nearly
two degrees an hour. At o'clock 1t
had fallen to A degrees. Two more
were clipped off by I o'clock, and at
o'clock mercury stood at the 40 mark.
At that hour it began falling slightly
faster, and at 10 O'Clock registered only
81 degrees. At IL it had slipped down
below the SO point, and at midnight
had reached "a degrees. This was two
degrees colder than the coolest point of
the last previous cold spell.
At midnight there was no indica-
ton of a let-up. Mr.. Boyer, the To-
cal forecaster, stated that the regis
tration this morning would probably
be between 80 and 25 degrees, with the
probabilities that mercury would stand
at about the mean between these
points, q degrees. Warming up and
relief is promised after to-day.
The temperatures over the entire
country were very low. When the re-
ports were filed at o'clock last night
Jacksonville and Key West were the
only places in the South which re-
ported higher temperatures than Sa-
vannah. Atlanta had only 80 degrees
and Augusta only So Montgomery re-
ported a temperature of 80. Jackson
vile sent in as degrees, a point eight
degrees above that. reached by Sa-
vannah. The warmest place in the
United States was Key West with a
temperature of 70 degrees.
The cold wave win eliminate to-day.
disappear and mercury will gradually
crawl upwards until it reaches the nor
NAL registration again. In the West
and Middle West, the warming process
has already started and this will rap
idly work its way southwark and east
ward.
At 6 o'clock last night storm was
moving in along the Pacific coast and
under the influence of this the temper
atures on the Rocky mountain plateau
and throughout the Middle West were
gradually but steadily rising. The
storm is causing rain west of the
Rockies. In crossing the high noun
tains, however, it will lose its moisture
and swing down the eastern slope with
out rain. Gradually it will draw mois-
ture again from the Gulf coast and
when the warmer weather reaches here
it will probably be accompanied by
rain.
Though considerably colder than
Wednesday. yesterday was not nearly
SO uncomfortable. The wind which ac-
companied the cold wave had died down
to a great extent and the air was sharp
and crisp. After sunset there was very
little wind and this lessened consid-
ably the effect of the cold There were
few on the streets without overcoats
and there was scarcely home in the
city in which fires were not burning
brskly during the entire day.
The warning of the Weather Bureau
put all on their guard, and despite the
fact that the freezing point was reach
ed, no water pipes were reported froz-
en-. In several homes the water was
allowed to run during the entire night
as a preventive measure.