The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-12

The mercury went over the top,
of the zero mark at high noon today,
the initial drive carrying it to 1 above.
By O'Clock, however, the advance
had carried it to the 5 above mark,
but Observer Flora announced that it
was due for quick setback Tonight
it is expected the low mark will be
8 below and tomorrow the high mark
will be between Is and 20 above, the
day promising to be the warmest To-
peka has enjoyed since the middle of
the week. However, tomorrow will
still be a winter day in every sense of
the word.
AT 2 o'clock this afternoon the wind
was blowing twenty miles an hour
from the west. The average temper
ature for the day was 81 degrees below
normal.
The cold wave that has tied nm
traffic all over the state of Kansas
for the last two days is now passing
on to the east, according to the state
ment of s. D. Flora, meteoroiogist in
charge of the local weather bureau
this morning. The temperature this
afternoon may even go to above zero,
which altho not especially warm, vet
is considerably more comforta BILE than
temperatures of IL to i 6 degrees be-
low zero.
Temperatures that try to knock the
bottom out of the thermometer may
be enjoyed in Minnesota and Canada,
but the blood of the sons of Kansas is
not constituted to find enjoyment in
cold so intense that furnaces nearly
freeze up Nor are Kansas houses
and buildings built to withstand the
penetrating qualities of the ultra
northern atmosphere
16 Below Coolest Here.
The lowest temperature for the
night or for today was registered at
1870 o'clock this morning when the
mercury touched a point 16 degrees
below zero. Reports from over the
state indicate below zero temperatures
are common today. The 16 below
temperature is the coolest recorded in
Topeka since the record temperature
was recorded just six years ago today.
At that time the thermometer drop
ped to stage of 19 below zero.
The official forecast for Kansas.
United States weather bureau says:
Far and not quite so cold tonight:
Sunday increasing cloudiness with ris-
ing temperatures; probably snow in
the west portion.
The report from Oklahoma City
this morning showed temperature Of
4 below, which was some milder than
the temperature at Topeka, but which
was not mild enough to make march,
ing over snow covered roads and hills
4
wind was blowing over Camp Doni-
phan and there was a clear sky that
! held no promise of more snow. There
has been no snow at Doniphan in the
last "a hours.
UnsheItered Livestock Suffered.
One of the sad sights to those hardy
adventures who braved the open FRI
kday and last night was the scattered
punches of cattle and horses huddled
in fence corners, or behind a clump
of trees. Backs to the wind and with
noses almost touching the snow the
livestock of the state patiently suf-
fered thru the long hours There are
a number of reports already in from
the western half of the state about
the casualties among the livestock on
| the bleak western prairies.
The shippers forecast warns to pro-
tect thirty-six hour shipments to the
north, west and east against temper
atures of below zero, and to the
south against a temperature of be-
| low.
+ Whole Southwest Suffers
| Kansas City, Mo, Jan. 12.-After
| the lowest plunge of the mercury in
4 from eight to twenty years, the Cen
! trail and Southwest was hoping for a
reaction to warmer weather today.
| based on weather bureau predictions
of slowly rising temperatures. The
Kansas City forecaster, however. de-
I clined to say whether temperatures
| would go above the zero mark again
here today until he made his off,
cial forecast.
record cold weather that rollowed at
many points, came disorgani nization of
wire and train communications, fran
tic calls for coal failure of gas SER
Twice in the Oklahoma-Kansas zelda
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