The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-29
MERCURY NEAR
FREEZING POINT
COLD WAVE IN SAVANNAH
MARKED BY SUDDEN FALLING OFF
IN TEMPERATURE.

will Probably Continue Falling to
Freezing, Point or Even Lower.
The Cold Wave Predicted by
weather Man Extended over tho
Entire sOuth-PhenOmenaI Drops
continued in Many Cities-Atlanta
the Coolest City in Georgia.
The cold wave predicted for the
southern states for yesterday arrived
on schedule time, and accompanied by
the high winds that marked It's course
across the continent.
In Savannah temperatures dropped
steadily during the day, and at mid
night mercury stood close to the freez-
ing point All indications were that it
would fall below that figure before
morning and the continued cold will
mark the weather to-day. High south
companied the cold snap and made it
seem even colder than the official ther-
mometer recorded,
A third shower passed over the city
during the night, though there was
little rain. Shortly afterwards the
skies cleared, the winds freshened con-
sderably and mercury began scurrying
faster in its course down the tube.
During the greater part of the day the
sun shone brightly, but its rays SEEM
ed to have little warmth.
There was slight tendency to warm
up at the noon hour, though it lasted
for only a few hours and then mer-
curry began falling again. At o'clock
it had dropped to 80 degrees. Two
hours later it had clipped off two more
degrees, and by midnight was lowering
just few degrees above the freezing
point.
At Other stations.
When the night reports came in to
the weather bureau last night, Chicago
again recorded the lowest temperature,
though there had been a decided fall
ing off in the wind velocities The con-
ditions that prevailed at the Windy
City on Tuesday night had shifted
eastward and were almost exactly re-
produced in Buffalo. where mercury
stood at Is degrees and a northwest
wind bowled at the rate of so miles
an hour.
Sldden drops in temperature through
out the South were recorded gener-
ally during the day. In Savannah the
falling off amounted to only 20 degrees,
though other stations recorded drops
of from 80 to 40 degrees. The high
winds continued throughout the day,
though nothing like the unusual velo-
cities reported from the northwest oc-
Cured here.
Atlanta was the coolest place in the
South that reported. The highest tenn
perature there during the day was 50
degrees and at one time the wind,
blowing from the northwest, reached a
velocity of 40 miles an hour. Ashe-
Vile last night made a lower tempera-
ture record. mercury there falling off
to 20 degrees, and the wind blowing
at a rate of % miles from the north
west.
Warming Up Tomorrow.
The following temperatures were re-
ported last night from stations
throughout the South Jacksonville, 40
degrees; Mobile. 40 degrees, Mont
gomery SO degrees; Galveston, AZ de-
gIees; Memphis, % degrees; Augusta,
81 degrees; Charleston 40 degrees; At
lanta, 90 degrees; and Asheville 20 de-
grees.
Thought those sections of the coun-
try that lay in the center of the cold
wave region on Tuesday there was an
indication yesterday of the beginning
of the warming up policy. This was, of
course somewhat slow, but neverthe-
less steady, and all indications point to
the fact that the cold will not continue
much longer.
The coolest point in Savannah will
probably he reached during the very
Tn-da V
will continue cold, but in all probable
ity the warming up process will start
in on Friday and by Sunday, barring
sudden and at present unforeseen
changes, normal conditions will have
been resumed