The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-21
new SNOW RECORD.

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Kansas towns. But taking things as
whole there was minimum amount or
Inconvenience caused by the storm.
Snow Was General.
The depth of snow in Kansas varied
from one to eight inches. The precipi-
tation in the extreme western portion
Of the state was between one and
four inches. There was a combina-
ton of rain, sleet and snow in the ex-
IRENE southeastern portion of the state.
The streets of PittSburg were transfer
red into skating ponds. The thermome-
ter registered fifteen above zero this
morning
The snow in Kansas this month has
been aDnormally heavy.
New Snow Record.
In fact the December record for
twenty-eight seasons at Topeka has
date this month is 1876 inches, as
against 1923 in December 1892, the pre-
vious month of heavy snow.
There have been but four months of
any name with greater depth Of
snow in the twenty-eight year period.
They were: February, 1900, 27-1 inches;
February, 1901, 17.9 inches; February,
1913, 1874, and March, 1912, 1852 inches.
The total precipitation this month in
inches; normal for December is .SS of
an inch There is still IS of an inch of
moisture on the ground in the form of
snow. This is equal to at least two
inches of rain as it will all soak into
the ground. The fact that the subsoil
is still extremely dry is shown by the
fact that the stage of the Kaw was but
3.5 feet today.
Two Above Here.
There was a sharp drop in temper
allure Sunday night and early this
morning due to & northwest wind which
had Travelled over hundreds of miles of
STOW covered territory. The tempera-
ture at O'Clock Sunday night was 20
degrees, the minimum at 1880 O'Clock
this morning was two above. This was
is degrees below the normal minimum
for this date. The sky was clear this
morning and there was a gradual rise
i'll temperature in the course of the day.
The following is the depth Of snow
reported from numerous Kansas points:
Manhattan, inches; Marysville, A.;
Washington, 4; Emporia, 4; Lawrence,
6; Abilene, s: Cottonwood Falls, s.;
junction City. Z; Leavenworth, 6; Jet
more. 4; Salina, 8.
Tuesday Shortest Day.
Tuesday will be the shortest day of
the year. The sun will rise at 1889 and
set at 5:04. 1t is the date on which
the sun VIII be seen at furtheSt point
south. The shortest day comes on
either December q or %. There is a
variation because of the fact that the
calendar year is not of precisely the
same length as the solar year. The
evenings are already three minutes
longer than was the case two weeks
ago, but the sun will rise four minutes
later by the end of the year.
Slightly Warmer Tuesday.
The forecast: Generally fair tonight
and Tuesday; warmer tonight
Shippers forecast: Protect SO hour
shipments north and west against tenn
perature of degrees; east between IL
and Is This indicates that the tenn
perature at Topeka will be below 10
degrees.
Snow in the West.
Hutchinson, Kan, Dec. 21.-Westerr
Kansas is covered with from three tc
five inches of snow which did not drift
and which is held in place by rain and
sleet which is frozen into a crust.
1t is worth a vast amount of money
to the wheat. The temperature was
4 degrees below zero last night, the
coolest of the winter
Atchison Reports Snow.
! Atchison, Kan. Dec. 21.-Four ani
one-h half inches of snow fell here yes.
te:day and was followed by another
| drop of temperature to 3 degrees above
zero.