The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-03-12

Winter Went More TL.,n Two
and a Half Feet = Was a Big
Snow in April = The Tempera-
ture Broke the Record, With
Two Degrees Below Zero-Fig-
ures That May Be of Interest to
Raleigh People
With promise Of more weather ana
none too choice d selection Ut tina the
weather department IF The News and
ObscrSer has determined to crafty q
desire TO see the seasons Of 1899 and
1872 ralalieled.
The bureau Of Raleigh has kept the
records faithfully and has al the
figures that can be of great interest
except those indicating. the time re
CURED TO rid the earth of the SHOWS
taat have descended with such light
ming raridity during these wears.
1t is with snow that the article now
being written is most concerned. Wed
nesdaN request WAS made for q story
which would show the length Of time
that the snow remained upon the
earth. There is no authentic record
OF his 50 far as the dates thirteen
years ago tell the story. The depth
Will be shown to have been remark
able.
l;eeinning : winter Of remarkable
temperatures and especially heavy
rains. there fell November &c. 1898.
three-tenths Of u inch Of snov. There
was none in December of that wear,
but New Years day, January !. 1899.
tNo-tenths of an inch fell. There vas
January IS, IS but no more that
| month. In February, the snow fac
tory worked overtime. on February
: 8. there was a trace Of snow. Feb
| ruary II two inches fell. The the,
, nometer began to descend. ON the
eighth there Was a drop to - de
. 2rees and on the fourteenth of that
: month. it registered : degrees below
! zero. the lowest mark ever reached
/ by the Raleigh bureau.
, February II two inches fell. Febru-
: ary L. the next day. : inches. Febru-
' AIRY IS. 10 more came. There was
none i'll March. April 4, there dropped
) IL inches more and OF April
and ; there were temperatures Of 81
S and 80. This was the last recordeo
. freeze.
Throughout that month. there was
e a mean temperature Of So, which is
t to say that the temperature Was With
G in four degrees Of freezing all the
IL III W. lila iotll1I II 10 Is
n temperatures made the month droI
to 2S.3. But this was not remarkable
for February of 1885, showed an az
erage minimum ten. pe~rature of IS
i and for the Year 1898, 21.6. As tn
u normal February temperature .
It 1899 should have been 43.3, it vii
be seen that there was a considerable,
q GOODNESS throughout the month.
g It will now be seen that for tha
month. 1899, there fell d great anoun
Of sno and the depth totaled z ant
a fraction inches. for the winter i
|e reached the enormous deoth Q
y 30 inches. 1t was d terrific visit
alton.
Poor people suffered greatly. II
# addition to haEin" been the coldes
a winter for many Years. it was perhap
the worst Visitation of rain seen il
many wears. The weather bureau
figures for Noah's food were mis-
placed. somehow, and how the pre-
20 cipitation of that year compares Wit
1899 and 1912 cannot be said now. !
ar ~EpiScopalian lost his Re
ligious faith that year, 1888. in Sails
bury. He had recd what tn
Noachian debacle had done in fort
,r DAYS and forty nights Of excessive hu
Ia nudity. But he had watched the rain
fall Of that winter. 1t continued. h
said. u~nbroken for six months. Ys
10 it washed away not q bridge in Itcwa
ri county.
The SHOWS Of the present Winte
have been Very frefuent, but the
have had a mixture Of sleet. rain an
general cussedness that makes ther
hard to estimate. There was none j
ii. November. though there may hay
been "a, skift Of snow as Uncle JIG
Roueche of the Salisbury Evenin
Post describes it.
b. January ! and s, there fell 2.3 =,
an hail. sleet and snow. one inch 4.
which was declared not 10 he snow.
he anuarv IS and Il. Seyen-tenths fel
tx 1t remained until January Is. Eel
fruarS ., tWo-tenths II an inch can