Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-02
WEATHER. EN- JANUARY.
There Were Three Cold Waves in the
Month

| mOAEu.
The monthly report of the United States
weather bureau says that January was
| colder than usual in the districts east OF
| the Mississippi river, the deficiency In tenn
perature being very marked in the lake re-
gion. New England and middle Atlantic
states, where it ranged from 6 to degrees
per day. West of the Mississippi river the
month was generally milder than usual,
only the central portions of the middle and
! southern plateau districts showing a de-
| fciency in temperature. Over the middle
| Rocky mountain slope and from the upper
Missouri valley westward to the north "a
| cific coast including portions of California
and western Nevada, the temperature ex-
cess amounted to more than degrees per
| day. and from eastern Washington to the
western portions of the Dakotas and Ne
| braska it ranged from to more than IL
degrees being greatest in Montana. Along
the central and northern California coasts
and in the west gulf states the average
temperature differed but slightly from the
normal.
degrees along the south Atlantic and gulf
coasts; they ranged from 90 to 20 degrees
In the upper Ohio valley, over the north
ern portions of the southern states and the
southern portion of the middle Atlantic
states; in the central valleys and the north
ern portion of the middle Atlantic states
from 20 to 90 degrees, and below 40 degrees
in the lake region and northern New Eng
land.
The minimum temperatures ranged from
zero to 80 degrees below zero in the Da-
kotas, Minnesota, THE central valleys lake
region, New England and the northern por-
ton of the middle Atlantic states. the low
est occurring. at Moofhead and Duluth.
MINI. The line OF zero temperature ex-
tends along the soHtherfl boundaries of Col
orado, Kansas and Missouri thence along
the Ohio river and through West Virginia,
northern Maryland and southern New Jer-
sey. reaching thes coast between Atlantic
City and Cape MaylaiTemperatures below
freezing occurred at'alk gulf coast stations
except in central and southern Florida.
moderate cold wave appeared in the
upper Missouri and upper Mississippi val
leys on the morning Dfithe 1st and spread
rapidly southward pveEEthe eastern slope
OF the Rocky mountains. Freezing temper
atures We're recorded along the gulf coast
ON the morning Of. the Sd. and the cold
weather was ,genersAoeast ofsTthes sMissis-
slppl on the 80. Unusually oGoId weather
prevailed in New York state and eastern
PENNSYLVANIA op the mornfng of the 5th,
Que to the rapid movement southeastward
of the area of high pressure that was CEN
trai on the morning of the 4th in western
The second cold. wave ofstbe month Or
CURED on the 23d, when temperatures 20
to p degrees below zero were recorded in
North Dakota and the upper Mississippi
valley. The cold spread slowly southward
and eastward readings of "a to SO degrees
below zero being recorded on the mornine,
of the oath in Minnesota, 1t.,-. .F-te'
Inc third cold wave moved east-south-
eastward from the eastern sfope of tbe
ROCKY mountains on the morning of the
Zoth ana overspread the southwest and
MIDDLE mississippi valley and Tennessee on
the 18th and reached the Atlantic coast die
tricts on the 27th.