The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-29
APRIL WEATHER
ALSO ECCENTRIC.
KEEPS PACE SET BY EARLIER
MONTHS OF YEAR.
Average, Temperature for Past Five
Months Has Been 6.s Degrees
Under ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Fixed
Gait That Other Months Have Not
Been Able to Break Away From.

While Minneapolis had the worst
winter known since the establishment
or the local weather bureau, there
are others in the same boat. Tt was
showing at o'clock this morning at
Santa Fe, N. NJ, and the thermome-
ter was recording 80 degrees above.
At Edmonton, the weather station
farthest north, the reading was 46
degrees above zero.
Figures gathered from the records
Of the local weather bureau show that
the cold season just ended was alb
normal. The first cold snap began
Nov. 26, when zero temperature was
recorded. Low temperatures pre-
vailed until the close Of the month,
with the average temperature show
ing 1913 as against the average of
3l.2 for fourteen years.
December opened cold, tempera-
lures ranging from 1 to 10 degrees
above zero for the first ten days of
the month. Dec. 4 the mercury
dropped to q, and on the day fol-
lowing Ia was recorded. The
worst was yet to come. and on the
coolest day Of the month. Zero tenn
peratures held until the 18th, but on
the 18th there was rise. Zero was
again reached on the 22d and on
Dec. 23, "a and 26,--1 III and II Z
were recorded. The, following two
days were warmer, but the month
ended with % on the 30th, making
the daily average for the month 1875,
as compared with 1885,. the average
for the previous fourteen years.
January opened with II on the
Sd. Zero ruled until the 9Th, when
8 degrees above zero was recorded.
The highest minimum of the month
was 26 on the 18th. The warm spell
continued with above zero readings
until the 18th with slight rises on the
18th and 14th. Then came drop
with temperatures ranging fro mi to
zero was again reached. Then came
the catastrophe; -16 was recorded on
the Esd, -33 on the oath, 81 on the
25th, 20 on the 26th and 9th, Ia
on the 28th, -13 on the 10Th, on the
Both and % on the 31st. There was
a heavy drop in this month, the
average daily temperature being 7.3
as against 14.4 for fourteen years be-
fore.
breaker. The thermometer ranged
from lie to 10 until the 4th. There
was a slight rise on the 5th and 9Th,
dropping to - on the 18th and Il
on the Sth. This was the coolest Of
the month. Minimum readings con
tinued from 10 to 10 degrees below
zero until the 18th. On the 14th an
other cold snap. came in and the fol-
lowing temperatures were recorded:
18th, IS; 18th and 10th, Is. This
snap hung on until the 21st, minimum
temperatures ranging from 3 to 6
above. Another cold wave dropped in
on top of this, sending daily minimum
readings Of II to % until the 25th
Conditions improved and the month
ended comparatively warm. The
average for the month was So as
compared with AT for the previous
fourteen Februaries.
March followed suit and broke rec
ords for cold weather. It opened
warm, but on the Sd dropped to "A
A rise the following day continued
keeping minimum readings above Il
above until the Gath. A chilly season
came in on the 25th, the THERMOMETERS
dropping to but II degrees above. A
reading of 35 degrees above, the high,
est minimum Of the month. The
daily average for the month was 27.i
and that Of the fourteen years before
is 1856.
April opened warm and has beer
pleasant, altho below the average
The highest temperature recorded was
above on the 18th. The approx.
mate average for the month is 40
while that Of the month for the pas
fourteen years is AT degrees.
The daily averages for the five
months in question give an average
for the period Of 1876. The daily
averages for the fourteen years fol
this period are 24.9. This would
show that there was an average daily
departure of 6.3 degrees from norma
during the past winter. Frost pene.
trated from Z to 9 feet.