Evening star., 1908-01-31
MORE REAL WINTER WEATHER
STORM. WITH SNOW OR RAIN.
IS DUE HERE TONIGHT.
Disagreeable Conditions May Prevail
Until Sunday, With Another
Cold Wave in It's Wake.

We are getting the real winter article
now" Prof. Edward B. Garriott official
forecas ster of the weather bureau. said this
afternoon. and there is more arctic frigid
lty with snow and ice, In store for us be-
tween this time and Monday. Another
spell of bad weather is due to reach
Washington about midnight. accompanied
by snow or rain. and it will continue to-
morrow. The storm was antral today
over Oklahoma and is coming this way
II good gait. The storm may pass away
and so off to sea tomorrow night and in
its wake will come another cold wave
sunday from the north and northwest
Washington experienced the coolest
weather in the YEAR 1908 this morning be-
tween i and o'clock, when the thernom-
ctcrS registered IL degrees above the
zero mark. The temperature tomorrow
VIII rise 10 about the freezing point-32
degrees
Jack Frost Making Good.
''J;fck Frost is at last making good on
the winter proposition" a veteran weather
lfen remarked today. "and il is possible
that he Will crowd much snow, ice and
aialing north winds into the remaining
weeks OF winter, and perhaps lap over
iuro April
II II reported mat there IL cOnSlutra blf.
suffering among the poor in the CongeSted
tenement districts of Washington and the
SlipcfintendentS of the several lodging
houses say their premises are filed be-
yond their capacities these marrow-chill
ing nights by homeless Wayfarers. In
several recent cases. il is rela ted. money
less and iriendeSS itinerants have begged
the police 10 send them 10 Jail or the
Wurhhouse. where they may find warmth,
food ana shelter.
Ice in the River.
The cold weather last night caused ice
about an inch thick to form on the river
aud this morning the stream was frozen
from shore 10 shore. The steamers early
this morning broke the ice up and this
afternoon il is floating up and down the
river with the tide. 1t is not yet heavy
enough 10 interfere with navigation 10 any
extent. but with night or two more OF
The real cold weatllcr. would close th. river
TO all except the larger propeller steamers
The officers OF The steamer Harry Ran
dali. which arrived here early this morn
ing. say they ran through ice from CO.
ionial Beach 10 this city. In the creeks
along the lower river il is stated ice was
formed TWO or three inches thick.
As February, 1905, will make its bow
tomorrow and enter the arena of time
Prof. Willis l.. Moore. chief of the wealth
cl bureau. has issued looking backward
bulletin. giving weather conditions in
Washington for thirty-Seven past Febru-
.trys. The lowest temperature recorded
was lJ degrees below zero. February H.
1899. The highest temperature was 1S
degrees. summer heat February %. 1874
The Warmest February was in 1o.O the
average temperature being 43. The cold
est February was in 1895. with All avera ga
temperature of ~. The average rainfall
on melted snow for the month is :;.42
inches The heaviest snowfall in any
twenty:our consecutive hours was twelve
inches February II. 1899. The highest
wind velocity was sixty miles an hour
from the northwest. February >. 1876
Bitter Cold in New York.
Special Dispatch TO The Star
NEW YORK. January 31.-This is the
coolest day of the winter. Maybe it does
not seem with the memory of yester-
days bitter wind. but the official figures
of the weather bureau show that it is.
Nren yesterday morning the mercury
crampcd itself INTO an eXcee iingly small
space and New Workers paused to learn
that it stood AT the & degrees mark they
thought that III" low temperature of the
present cold spell had been reached.
+ uiS morning at = "c,ock il was de-
2reeS colder than 4 the coolest hour
yesterday. Jack F'ros; and mercury bad
been buckin& the line since = o'clock with
out any gain on. either sidt. for the tenn
900, Il Il s4t Il 1.4pls