The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-11
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IT Will BE coll DER
Another Frigid Wave to Reach
Kansas Tonight.
More Snow and Sleet Falls in
Topeka.

The advice of Sunny Flora, the
weather man, is to lay in supply of
fuel today and prepare for a cold wave
that is slated to strike Topeka tonight
1t might be well to have the snow
shovels handy as there may be need
for them in keeping the walks clear.
This is the forecast: Threatening
with snow late today and probably to-
nieht: cold wave tonight; Tuesday
probably fair"
There is only one kind of disagree
able weather that we haven't had thus
far this month"; said Mr.. Flora, "and
that is cold wave and it looks as
though we would get that now. Unless
there is a 20 degree drop in the tenn
perature it can't be claimed that there
is a cold wave. The temperature today
is above the freezing point, so the mer-
curry does not necessarily have to go
extremely low before we can say that
we have experienced a cold wave.
1T looks as though the ground hog
theory had proven correct this year,
but of course once in awhile the advo-
Gates of the old idea must necessarily
have a chance to say told you So.
Thus far March has averaged IA
degrees below normal, and the first
third of the month has broken all rec
ords for cold weather for corre-
spending period in the past 25 years.
AS matter of fact we have been haV-
ing temperatures averaging below nor
NAL conditions for midwinter. The
emperatures of but three JanuaryS
two Februarys and one December in
the past quarter of century have
averaged lower than has been the case
in the past ten days.
There has been but one day in
March to date when there was not at
least trace of snow, the total depth
up to today being 11.2 inches. In the
month of March, 1899, the snowfall
was 14,1 inches, so no record has been
broken thus far.
Sunday rain began falling accom-
panied by sleet, and the precipitation |
continued throughout the day and in |
termittently during the night. The |
of sleet. and snow was |
1.2 inches. The amount of water in |
the gage including the rain and the |
melted snow and sleet was 40 of an
inch.
The river is partially frozen over. |
and contrary to expectations there has |
been drop in the waters Sunday !
morning at o'clock the stage was
1.3 inches, while this morning at the |
same time the measurement showed
depth of but 68 feet
The thermometer began rising slow
y Sunday morning and continued on
It's upward course throughout the en-
tire day and Sunday night. The read
ng at O'Clock this morning was 33
degrees.
''The worst is yet to come,' was the
statement of the local weather OBJ
Indications are that the rain will turn
% snow before night. There is an
area of low pressure over Kansas and
he northeast wind will give way to
northerly wind which will bring cold
weather down from the north. The
wind is blowing from the northeast
now at the rate of IL miles an 1sour'
The rainfall from o'clock this
morning to this afternoon amounted
% -04 of an inch, making a total pre-
,ipitation since Sunday morning of IA
If an inch.
The shippers forecast reads: "Pro-
ect SO hour shipments north and west
lgainst temperate of from 5 to o
iegrees; east and south against 5