San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-19
HEAVY FROST
F0RECASTFOR
MONDAY NIGHT
Thermometer Will Drop to
Is to 81 and Will Be
Clear and Still.
WARM UP TUESDAY
Tail End Of Blizzard Hits
San Antonio and Freezes
an Inch Of Ice.

Clear skies. a heavy frost and tenn
peratures from % to 81 is the weather
forecast for Monday night and Tues
day morning with rising temperatures
Tuesday. following one of the worst
"northers" that has ever come to San
Antonio in March. Light TO moderate
northerly TO easterly winds will blow.
The weather bureau reported rs de-
grees at s o'clock Monday morning
and other thermometers in the city
went as low as &c with as much as
one inch of ice. ...
Reports from the Rio Grande Val
ley are that not much damage was
done to crops, although fruit trees in
bloom will probably be ffost-bitten
Monday night il they have escaped the
cold weather OF the last week. just
how far frost will extend Tuesday
morning is uncertain but Il is believed
it will dip well down into South
Texas.
The tail end of the blizzard struck
San Antonio at $50 Sunday morning.
IL was fiest visible in the north as a
black and. yellow tinged cloud caused
by sand sweeping down over the state
from the Panhandle. The barometer
began to rise Immediately until it stood
at its highest point at 10 o'clock Non
day morning at, GOO, with the center
1T ihc ''hisk kvrr Soutkrtsts4d4 xxS.
Fhis high prtssure area will moyv
northeastward but will still be close
enough 10 send the thermometer down
Tuesday morning.
Break March Records.
Several March records were set for
stations in the South, Monday morn
ing. Temperatures reported were
Brownsville. 20: Corpus Christi. 81 :;
Houston, IS; San Antonio, %; Tay-
lor. "a. killing frost; Amarillo. IA /:
Abeline, Il. killing frost; Oklahoma
City 10: Chicago, 2; st. Paul. s be-
low; Dallas. 16. record; Kansas City.
2. record: Des Moines. 10 below. rec
ord Little Rock, IL. record; Memphis,
II. record; st. Louis, 4. record.
A strongly developed low stood
over the Canadian border Monday
morning with a barometer reading of
29.3. This will sweep down across the
United States bringing spring temper
atures in the wake of the cold wave.
A remarkable feature of the weather
man was that Calgary, Canada. near
the center of the low. reported tenn
peraturc of 40 and Edmonton in AL
berta. reported 40 degrees, the same
temperature as Brownsville, more than
5000 miles TO the south. Between
them the temperature hovers near and
below the zero mark.
Heavy rains were falling along the
Gulf coast cast Of New Orleans with
the greatest amount at Mobile. IL
inches. The freezing line entered the
United States over New York and ran
southwest to Southern Louisiana and
thence west across Texas.
Little Damage Yet.
Reports from interior points In
Texas show that so far vegetation has
escaped far better than was antici-
pated. At Donna the thermometer did
not fall below IS but fear was enter
tanned for Monday night, that when
the wind fell frost might visit that Sec
ton. Thousands of acres Of corn. cot
ton and broomcorn which have 80 far
escaped the cold weather are at the
mercy Of frost that may fall Monday
night.
Mission. Texas. reported that the
cold wave struck there Sunday after
noon but the thermometer did not fall
below 40 and there was no damage to
fruit or crops. 8,
No loss of livestock was reported
from the plains country, according TO
dispatches from Dallas which said that
thermometer at Amarillo which stood
at IA degrees at Z O'Clock Monday
morning had risen TO % degrees at y
o'clock. Galveston reported tenn
.perature of "a degrees Monday morn
ing with a stiff norther blowing. This
breaks all previous records for middle
of March weather.
Young Stock Suffers.
Belief that lower Rio Grande val
lev would escape a freeze and that its
crops would not suffer from the cold
wave was expressed by weather bureau
officials at Houston who received re-
norris from stations there Monday
morning. The thermometer at Hous-
ton went to % degrees at O'Clock
which is the lowest on record for TINS
time of year. Much replantlng VIII
be required as a result OF the blizzard
in that section.
II. II. Schultz, agricultural statisti-
clan for the state Of Texas. at Hous-
ton. in charge Of the bureau Of crop
estimates of the Department OF Agri-
culture. stated Monday morning that
It would be impossible TO determine the
actual crop damage over Texas for sey..
eral days but that it was certain all
fender vegetation where temperatures
went below freezing was damaged.
Corn, fruit--especially strawberries
and potatoes are the crops which are
expected by Mr.. Schultz 10 have been
the worst damaged. New born goats,
calves, lambs and colts are also known
% haze suffered from the cold wave