The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-01-10
Snow Squalls Are Due About the
Middle OF This Month.
February will Be Colder; Fill
Up the Coal Shuttle.
Next Summer to Be Scorcher;;
An Ice Cream Brand.

the government weather bureau there
are ten in the country who trust
to the almanacs, and bring in fuel
on take off their mufflers at the 'tip"
of the man who outlines the weather
for whole year in ADVANCE whole
year, while the most Professor Cox
ever ventures is thirty-six hours!
City folk wonder somtimes why al
manacs are printed. They wouldn't
wonder if they could catch a glimpse
of thousands of country homes-and
some city ones-where the almanac is
never out of reach and where its
word is sufficient to the wise. A
Chicago packing company issues a
Farmers Almanac" every year, and
in it "Uncle Obadiah" teels what the
whether is going to be from January
to Christmas and from Eastport, Me-,
TO the Salton Sink. You don't have
to believe it unless you wish to,
but even a doubling Thomas would
find it interesting reading.
Letting the rest of the country
take care of itself for the most part
and considering only the weather
predicted for Chicago and the north
west, let us see what "Uncle Obadiah"
has writ His forecast reads thus:
From Jan. to 4 good sleigh-rid-
ing around the great lakes. With the
fifth will come bitter cold, lasting un-
til the ninth, after which, and until
the thirteenth "really good January
weather with a general thaw it due.
From the l4th to the 18th snow squalls
will make life unpleasant and they
will be followed, 10th to 23rd by high
winds-"weather served rough side
out" remarks Uncle Obadiah. The
next observation is no more attrac-
tive:
"The oath to the 2Sth: storm wave.
Great blizzard storm and. snow
blockades.
Freezing weather as far
south as Louisiana. Traffic suspended"
After that the weather will reform
temporarily-like a human being
and there will be ''bright clear days
west of the Mississippi" which may
extent to Chicago, which is left out
of the forecast. Uncle Obadiah sums
up the month thus: "The average
temperature will be above normal in
the west.* Precipitation will be
below normal lin Chicago)."
February will be bit collier than
usual says Uncle Obadiah, although
the month will come in with rain that
will last until the 3rd. Thereafter
will come cold wave that will drive
the mercury down to 2 degrees be-
low zero here in Chicago. This will
endure till the 18th. Then the tenn
perature will start ballooning till
people joke about "an old-fashioned
summer"-but not for long. From
Feb. IL, to Is Uncle Obadiah says biz
yards will biz and the winds "will
make you feel as if you had been
sawed in two with icicles."
Then the temperature will initiate
a sky scraper elevator and go up
six or seven stories with rain squalls
-"advance March styles" the prophet
calls them. Feb. Fl to "a will be
soft and mild followed from the
25th to the Doth by snow, rain and
sleet almost the whole country over.
Such meteorological misconduct will
cause people to regret the generosity
of the calendar makers in giving the
month an extra day in the year.
March will do the lion act as usual
coming roaring in with cold wave and
temperature close to zero. High
winds and storms will follow, but from
the 10th to the 18th March will be
mild hammered, only to chill our
kindly feelings with sleet, snow and
till the end of the month thus:
Nineteenth to s3rd, high winds; Gath
to 9th, "a Whit of spring" then a
final cold wave and "the peach crop
will be ruined as usual. For the
entire month the temperature will be
above normal.
April will start in with cold wea-
Their, followed from the 4th to the Sth
by rain. From the 9th to the 18th
April will impersonate March, with fogs
from the 18th to 18th. Then cold
weather again to the 2lst. followed by
warm wave from the 22d, to the 25th
for the most of the country, but with
variable conditions" here on the lake.
After that thunderstorms in the
South, with hail stones ''as large as
hens eggs" but not word about what
Chicago may expect. Experience
gathered from previous Aprils will
warn us, however, to expect the worst,
The month will show an average tenn
perature in the final analysis.
May will average somewhat warmer
than usual, After rainy opening
will come straw hat weather fol-
. lowed by cloudy damp days, which
will usher in several thunderstorms