The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-10-27
SUNDAY SET NEW
MARK FOR COLD
IN CAPITAL CITY
Thermometer Drops to 10 Below
Zero and Breaks 45-Years'
Record Here
SNOW ALSO EXCESSIVE
Downfall of Beautiful Never So
Great This Early in Sea-
son in Bismarck
SNOW ALSO EXCESSIVE

With the thermometer registering 10
degrees below zero at s o'clock Sunday
morning, yesterday was the coolest Oc-
tober day in the annals Of the local
weather bureau. The records cover u
period of As years and with this eX-
treme cold, the record for the entire
month up to the present time shows
October, 1919, to be the coolest Octo-
Ter on record 49,
Another record was shattered last
week when six inches of snow fell in
81 hours, this being the heaviest fall
Of snow in that space of time for any
October covered by the bureaus
records.
The nearest approach to this record
for low temperature was on October 20,
1895, when the thermometer went as
low as two degrees under zero and
there are only two instances in the rec
ord where the mercury Travelled below
zero at the local weather bureau dur
ing this month. The intense cold Of
the past'few days was due to the pas
sage of an area of exceptionally high
pressure over this section. ..
WARMER LAST NIGHT
Last night, the minimum tempera-
ture was one degree below zero and by
s o'clock this morning it was II de-
grees above. Snow started falling this
TOrning at , o'clock and up to 8 O'Clock
an inch had fallen While this is eX-
ceptional for this time of the year, it is
not the record. there having been a
SHOW fall of eight inches on October
% and %. 1912. The nearest approach
to the 24-hour record Of six inches was
On October 4, 1898, when 5.S inches
fell . .'
0. w. Roberts, chief Of the bureau,
in showing how exceptionally cold it
has been the past few days stated that
the records show that 3S degrees is the
average temperature for Bismarck dur
ing October, while yesterdays average
was two degrees above zero, a varia-
ton of 3G degrees.
Although heavy woolens may not
only be comfortable, but necessity at
this time, yet it is believed that No
vember will be very mild. II am not
making any forecast said Mr.. Rob
erts this morning, ''but whenever we
nave had a severe October we always
have a mild November. if October is
dry November is wet. For instance, in
October. 1910, 56 degrees was the high
While in November, 1910, 26.G was the
low. These figures represent practi-
cslly the highest for October and the
lowest for November with some slight
exceptions of unusual cold or warm
weather."
WAS COLDEST SPOT
bismarck was the coolest spot in the
United States, according to the daily
weather bureau report issued today
covering the temperature during the
past "a hours. Four cities in Canada
reported temperatures lower than that
registered here of one degree below
zero.
The, highest temperature noted on
the report was that at Chicago of As
degrees. Oklahoma City, almost in the
gulf coast country, reported the mer-
curry had fallen as low as 40 degrees.
Swift Current. in Canada, had mini
mum temperature of degrees below
zero, which is the coolest reported.
st. Louis, with a minimum tempera-
turc Of 46 degrees, had GAG inches Of
rain. Most cities report either snow,
rain or cloudy weather, and the wealth
G" bureau predicts cloudy weather to-
night.