The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-01-16
RALEIGH IN GRIP
Of THE COLD KING
Cold Wave Dropped Mercury
to Eight Above Zero Yester-
day and Zero Expected
MAY TIGHTEN UP TODAY
AND WARMER TOMORROW

and With The Wind at "A Velocity
of T~Wenty-eix Miles an Hour Ii Was
Stinging-Thcrc was n
Yesterday OF Half an Inch, While
That Beginning January Sixth Was
Three Inches.
Singing cold was the weather II
Raleigh Yesterday, while SNOW fell Tor
some hours, and the Indications We're
that the temperature was 10 droD near
to zero during last night, With the
snow falling and the wind bioWlnE
briskly from the northeast yesterday
the day took on the aspect Of one be-
longing to a northern cline. The city
was in the grip OF the snow king, the
ice king. the wind king. or any Old
kind of n king who reVels in cold Of
the intense kind.
n wind added to the extreme cold
Of the day, as was easily found rs PEG
pie passed from open into protected
places. During Friday night the tenn
perature gradually fell, and at 1880
yesterday it had dropped TO eight de-
greeS above zero, remaining as low Us
nine degrees above zero and recover
ing to thirteen degrees at ! O'Clock,
and falling again to eight degrees at
1915 last night. The indications III
the night We're that there would be .
fall in temperature again, and the in
tense cold felt by people last night
made it feel IS If the mercury We're
dropping down to the zero point. And
the reports from other sections show
that they are also gripped with the
cOld
The cold wave which now has IA
leigh and all this section is OF the
most widespread of recent years, and
it reaches from Canada to the Gulf OF
Mexico. Mr.. l.. A. benson, section
director at the Raleigh Blu
reau, stated yesterday, in giving he
| figures and cOmDarativ statements as
to the weather, that snow and frccz-
ing temperatures We're recorded along
the entire middle and west Gulf coast.
The zero line reached south to central
Texas, thence northeastWard through
Tennessee to the middle Atlantic
coast. This show how widespread IS
the present cold wave.
With the thermometer at s degrees
above zero at 1880 IN Raleigh yes
terday, the hourly temperatures We're:
= a. m, IS degrees; Z q. m, Is de-
gIees; s a. m, ~ degrees; . 3. m, II
degrees; 10 a. m, 9 degrees; II a. m,
8 degrees; II noon, 9 degrees; l p. m.
1c degrees. 2 p. M, IL degrees; 3 r.
H., ID degrees; 4 p. m, Is degrees,
5 p. m, - degrees; s p. m, u de-
gIees; 8 p. m, IL degrees; 1918 p. m,
s degrees.
These were the figures at the
Weather Bureau here, and the tenn
nnrat,1ro jS tho 1auyacf recorded IN
thirteen years. In February, 1899.
there was a mountaineering cold
way felt here. On February -, the
maximum temperature was not above
10 degrees, II on the morning O.
February II, the minimum was z de-
erees below zero. During last nigh'
it felt as il the mercury would be al
that figure his morning abou day
) Prior to 1898 there was extremely
cold weather in 1893 and in 1888, anC
the records show that on January II
i 1898, the temperature was 2 degree:
above zero. and on February s, 1895
1t was i degrees above zero.
: The snow which began on the nigh
! of January 9Th, IN Raleigh was still
, in great evidence yesterday morning
t, and at an early hour more snow be,
gan to fall. This lasted for sorn.
. hours. q half inch in}all falling, Will.
. the snowfall beginning January CT
: was three inches. The average ve
locity Of the wind yesterday Wa.
twenty miles from the northeast. ann
\ the maximum velocity tWenfy-sl'
miles an hour. Some citizens, talEins
Of TIE weather conditions, said !
uas not as cold on the morning .
February Ii, 1899, as yesterday witt
the ten. peratuTe ? degrees below
zero. but this was hecaDse there VS..
little wind at that time, while o.
February 1G, 1888, there was tn
sane d4sagreeable cold. as the V~eiocit,
4 OF the wind was about the same q
Yesterday.
e The junior Senator from 1fino.
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