The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1909-01-07
Ea77N Some Famous Cold Snaps....~

we're buried in the snow in Scotland
in the winter of 1926.
The winter of l74O was scarcely
less cold than that OF 1870. An OK
was barbecued on the ice on the
Thames and the snow lay ten feet
deep in Spain and Portugal. The
Zuyder Zee was frozen over and
thousands of persons crossed on 1t.
The lakes of England we're also
frozen. That winter an "lce Palace"
was built at St. Petersburg after an
elegant model and in the just pro-
portions Of Augustinian architecture.
This seems to have been the first of
the "Ice Palaces" Snow fell to
depth of % feet on the level in
Portugal in the winter of l744, while
in New England it was a summer
winter.
The winters of 1854 and 175S
were so severe in England that the
strongest ale exposed to the air for
a few minutes in glass was frozen
over with coat of ice an eight Of
an inch thick. The river Elbe was
frozen to the bottom in I'LL.
The Danube was covered with ice
five feet thick below Vienna in l776.
Vast numbers of birds and fishes
persisted and in Holland and France
wine froze in the cellars.
December rs, 1876, is recorded
as the coolest day ever known in
London, when the thermometer re-
gistered 10 degrees below zero.
The mercury froze hard at Mos
COW January Is, 1900. From 1900
to 1912 the winters we're remarkable
cold, particularly the latter, in Rus
STA. which surpassed in intensity that
of any winter in that country for
many preceding years and caused
the destruction of the French army
in its retreat from Moscow. What
with the loss in battle and the effects
of this clamitous frost, France lost in
the campaign of this year more than
400, 900 men. 80
January IL, 1913, was known as
"Cold T ue d "" because in
some parts of New England the Their
mometer registered SO degrees be-
low zero.
The winter of 1883 was very mild
in the United States, but particularly
severe in Europe. For the first time
in the nineteenth century the river Pc
was frozen over at Ferrara, permit
ing for long .ime the constant pas
sage of man and beast. At Constan-
tinople the snow fell constantly for
IS days. The snow extended to
Symrna, the adjacent districts of
Asia Minor and the Greek islands
we're clothed in white.
Siberia has the coolest weather
known anywhere in the world. AT
verkhoyansk, Siberia. 90.4 degrees
below zero was observed in January,
1888, which goes below anything
ever known in the world before or
since. AT that point the average
temperature for January is nearly o.
degrees below zero. This town is
$50 feet above the level of tine sea
and during the entire winter the
weather is calm and clear.
The year 1916 has a remarkable
cold weather record and is known as
"the year without summer" In
that year there was a sharp frost in
every month, and the people all over
the world began to believe that some
great anu definite change in the Garth
was taking place The farmers US
ed to refer to it as "sighteen-h6n-
drei-and-starve-to-death." Frost,
ice and snow we're common in June
Almost every green thing was killed
and the fruit was nearly all destroy
ed. During the month snow fell to
the depth of three inches in New
York and Massachusetts and ten
inches in Maine, There was frost
and ice in July in New York. New
England and Pennsylvania, and corn
was nearly all destroyed in certain
sections. Ice half an inch thick
formed in August. A cold north
wind prevailed all summer.