Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-02
MERCURY To
RISE At TER
RECORD
Gale Reaches 52-MiIe Velocity,
and Temperature Drops to
Fifteen Degrees.

Warm weather unaccompanied by
wind will follow the record breaking
cold throughout Atlanta, Georgia and
the South Monday night will be cold,
but not windy. Tuesday will be fair,
warm ard MINDLESS, according 20
Forecaster VonHerrmann.
Contrary TO precedent, the warm
weather sunply is on its way from the
normally frozen Northwest. 1t was 26
degrees warmer at Devils Lake, y.
Oak. and Havre, Mont. at 5 a. m.
Monday than it was ia Atlanta. The
entire Northwest is abnormally warm.
Mr.. VonHerrmann eXpr essed he
belief that this freeze will arrest the
premature DEVELOPMENT OF the Geor-
gia peach crop and insure the crop
against developing to 5e caught by
subsequent spring cold snaps.
Lowest March on Record,
The heavy winds and freezing
weather that caused so much suffer
ing to the South's poor and played
havoc with telephone and telegraph
service we're occasioned by a storm
that formed just off Cape Hatteras.
swept into the land and through the
South to New York, where it is CEN
tered Monday.
The lowest temperature on record
for March in Atlanta was registered
when the thermometer read Is de-
erees above zero at and I a. m.
Monday. The nearest approach TO
this low temperature record was on
March 7, 1899, when the THERMOMETERS
registered degrees above zero. The
coolest March ever recorded here
tofore in Atlanta was II degrees
above zero in 1890.
1t was showing and the thermome-
ter registered only s degrees above
zero at Asheville, ~ c.. Monday
morning. A killing frost struck Flor
ida above jacksonville.
52-Mile Gale.
The vino was not quite 80 ferociols
as on Sunday afternoon, when tele-
phone and telegraph wires and troll
lev lines were torn from the posts by
gale that reached 81 miles an hour.
The street car service was badly Grip
pied on a number of lines. The wind
moderated slightly during the night,
but Monday morning it was whoopiny
sayagelv around the corners and max
ing a speed Of from 40 to A5 miles
an hour around the thermometer On
the Empire Building.
Had to Fight Wind,
There was much suffering in At
Ianta-far more than there has been
in any other cold snap OF the winter,
For one thing, it was colder by nearly
four degrees. For another, the terrific
wind drove the cold air into the best
built houses and whistled through the
cracks and ci mics OF ordinary build
ings with Il freedom that defed alike
furnace and stove and fireplace. Wa
ter pipes froze and burst in all parts
of the city.
Fortunately for Atlanta, the fury
of the elements burst in its full force
On Sunday, when it was not necessary
for many persons to b. exposed. True,
couple of thousand persons who at
tended the organ recital at the Au-
aitorium were nipped and buffeted by
Ii, cold blast and reached home
partly frozen. But those who set out
to work Monday morning were pre-
pared by the warning OF the previ-
Gus day They went well wrapped,
and prepared to fight the wind at all
corners
And that is just what they had to
do. Waiting for street cars at trans
fer points downtown, women might
be seen sitting on the pavement-the
only practical means OF controlling
skirts in the mighty swirl Of the
wind around the tall corners. Earl,
pedestrians presented thin red line
OF noses and glowing ears as they
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