The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-28
DOWN TO 29 DEGREES
COLDEST NOVEMBER WEATHER IN
SAVANNAH SINCE 1857.
WIND FROM THE NORTH
MADE THE TEMPERATURE SEEM
COLDER THAN 1T REALLY WAS.

Deficiency Was 23 Degrees and
OvercOmes Effects of Warm Spell
in Early Part of the MOnth-Maxi-
mum Temperature 3S Degrees.
Though Warmer Weather Is
Promised, Mercury Was Falling at
Midnight MOtOrmen Suffered
Most From Weather Reports
show Cold Wave Is Hardest in the
Southeast Coast States-Is Snow
ing in Pittsburg.
At O'Clock yesterday morning mer-
curry stood at 20 degrees, the lowest
point reached in thirty-two years, with
the exception of November 1887, 1881
and 1877. Mercury slipped down to the
% degree point in 1887, and the Novem-
bers of 1881 and 1877 both reached the
2S-degree point. November, 1885, is the
next coolest, with one day on which
the record of 20 degrees was made.
The falling off, which began at 4
clock Thursday afternoon, continued
throughout the entire night and early
hours of the morning. The freezing
point was reached some time during
the night and morning found thin
pieces of ice in all places where water
had been standing. At O'Clock the
| 29-degree point had been reached. This
was held until about $50, when mer-
curry again started upward.
1t was slow, hard work. AT noon the
37-degree mark had been reached. and
at o'clock one more degree had been
added. This was the best that could
be done, though mercury remained sta
tiOnary until $3.50 in the afternoon.
Then it began falling again, dropping
at the rate of about l degree per hour.
By o'clock it had fallen to Sc and
by 8 O'Clock it stood at "a degrees.
Two more hours found it at the freez-
ing point, and by midnight it was a
fraction of a degree below the 30-mark.
1t was still falling, and there was no
indication of a change.
The average temperature for the day
was 80 degrees. The normal, cOmput-
ed from the records of the past thirty
two years, called for an average tenn
perature of sc thus making the de-
fciency % degrees. These figures
overcame the effects of the hot spell
at the earlier part of the month,
and instead of the monthly excess of
16 degrees recorded Wednesday, there
is now a monthly deficiency of Z.
Cold Wind From North.
During the entire night the cold
north wind blew and there was no ces-
sation during the day. The wind
made the cold all the more apparent
and there was much grumbling. Per-
haps the greatest sufferers were the
| motormen. During the entire day
| they were compelled to stand on the
| front platform of the cars, which were
| driving for the greater part of the
time directly into the teeth of the
wind. The conductors Jared little bet
ter, though they had the advantage of
some shelter.
Fires burned all day in nearly all
| the homes of the city and there were
few on the streets without overcoats.
| The sun shone nearly all day, but any
warming effect of it's rays We're coun-
teracted by the winds. 1t was a
bleak, cold day, and entirely typical
of winter in the North.
The cold wave is general throughout
| the country. At o'clock last night
Jacksonville reported the same regis
tering as Savannah. FroStS were pre-
dicted for last night throughout Cen
trail Florida. OF the stations which
sent reports to the Savannah bu-
reau last night, Key West and Okla
homa were the warmest. Both report
temperatures of SO degrees. Asheville
was the coolest place to make a re-
port last night to the local Weather
Bureau, the mercury in the mountain
city standing at 20 degrees. Marquette,
Mich, stood second with a tempera-
ture of % degrees.
Washington, D. c., reports "a de-
grees, Augusta, 80; Atlanta, 80; Will
mington, %; Charleston, 80, and st.
Louis, 80. Hatteras sends in tenn
perature of 80 degrees with the wind
blowing at the rate of forty miles an
hour. This was the only station
which reported any unusually high
winds. In the North the temperature
was only a few degrees below that of
Savannah. Chicago and Cincinnati
each reported 26 degrees. Pittsburg's
thermometer stood at % degrees, and
it was showing in the Smoky City.
warming Up Begins To-day.
Warmer weather is promised for to-
day. and by the early part of next
week mercury should be again near
the normal points Too much cannot,
| however, be expected, as innumerable
conditions may arise which will cause
a change.
A study of the weather map last
night shows that the hardest part of
the cold wave lies in the southeast
coast states. Points south of Wash
ington and east of Mobile all showed
a falling off in temperature since 8
o'clock on Wednesday night. While
other points in the Northwest showed
! colder registrations, yet they were
warmer than their registration at the
same hour on Wednesday night.
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