The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-29
Elements Play a Joke on Folk
Who'd Put Away Their
Winter Things.
PITY THE MAN WHOSE
0vERCOAT'S IN "S0AK"
Professor Wiener Essays to Ex-
plain Unexpected Fall of
the Beautiful.
No sooner do spring flowers
Uplift their joyous head,
When comes the snowy blanke,
And back they go in bed.

And back they go in bed.
Beginning shortly after 6 o'clock this
morning snow fell for four hours, a
freak of the weather most unusual for
this e. Of the year. Not for many
years has it showed here so late. At
1880 o'clock it turned to rain and the
white blanket three-quarters of an inch
deep which had spread over every
Where except in downtown streets was
soon swept away. While the snow
lasted it looked like real blizzard.
left over from winter
According TO Professor William
Wiener. of the local weather bureau, a
northwest storm that crept in OH New
ark last night, met low temperature
storm, at point somewhere over the
Prudential building, said low tempera-
ture storm being from the Pacific and
travelling on the Twentieth Century
Limited The result of this clash be
tween this Jeffries storm from the Pa
cific and the johnson storm from the
northwest was slight frost, followed
by snow.
According to reports that came into
the STAR by telegraph the snow storm
was general all over the State, in lower
New York and Pennsylvania. In Man
haitian 1t was considered a freak, moth
ing Of the kind having been experienced
in the month of April in years. ON
May 6, 1891. snow fell in New York
but not to any very great extent
Local Forecaster Suspected 1t.
Newarkers. had returned to THEN
homes last night with the hopeful mes
sage of the government prophet in
Washington ringing In their ears. That
well-meaning dignitary had declared
that New Jersey might have frost dur
ing the night, but that Thursday would
be fair and slightly warmer in the
northwest portions.
The local bureau yesterday hit nearer
the bulI's-eye by forecasting a storm.
Professor Wiener didn't know lust
what kind of a storm was coming, and
he sent out the broad statement that
IL would be plain. unvarnished storm
The snow at first came down very
lightly, and about I O'Clock ceased al
together. Within twenty minutes, how
ever It came down again in more able.
bodied flakes. and when about O'Clock
stiff breeze sprang up 1t looked like
a real sure-enough December blizzard
The sky was overcast and you could
guess what was in store for the re.
mainder of the day.
Professor Wiener says that the tenn
perature this morning was IS degrees
He says that snow should keep away
when the mercury is anything above
80 degrees. but 1t didn't today. This
he explains with the statement that
the snow-storm must have "come from
a higher altitude" which seems as IL
ii may be true.
1T will not damage the crops or the
fruit observed Professor Wiener. 1.-THE
frost did not materislize last night and
the temperature is rising fairly stead
ily."
POTTSvILLE, Pa, April 2e.--witt
the thermometer below freezing a. brisl
snowstorna is in progress here today In
wilkesbarre there was three-inch fal
of snow.
READING, Pa, April pa snow
scusll struck this city at a. m. today