The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-04
BIRMINGHAM TO JOIN
 IN WINERY WEATHER

Old BoreaS was slipping SOuthWard Saturday night and Birmingham cit Iizenry may expect to awake Sunday morning with the thermometer around the 20 to 25 mark and with ice in still water, buckets and the like, according to the weather pre- djction of E. C. Horton, official fore- caster of the government station at Fountain Heights.
 Saturday was a day of dropping temperatures and rain; the red line of the thermometer went down from 42 degrees at o'clock to 37 at 8 o'clock and was still slipping during the night.
 The rain was expected to stop dur irg the night and throughout Sun day it was expected that the cold wave would continue with further depression as far south s the coast. It will be cloudy during Sunday, according to Horton.
 Snow and sleet were on the pro- gram for the northern sections of the state and reports from many points brought news that the coldest part of the winter was now opening.
 wINTRY BLASTS IN SOUTH
 MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb. 3.-Wintry blasts swept the central south to- night on the heels of the first real snow and sleet storm of the season with prospects of temperatures of from 10 to 20 degrees below freezing, the lowest of the winter in the wake of springlike weather and one of the mildest winters in years
 Tonight the storm which made it's appearance early today, replacing warm rain, apparently was centered in eastern Tennessee, leaving as re- hinder of it's visit from three to six inches of snow which blanketed much of Arkansas and Tennessee, and extended to the south as far as Grenada and Cl3rksdale,g Miss, an proximately 1e4FNiles south of Meni- phis. i4s <
 In Memphis. the snowfall amounted to about three inches, while points in Arkansas reported a fall in some places of six inches.
 Fort Smith, on the western border Of Arkansas, reported a temperature tonight of 24 degrees, with a promise that by tomorrow the mercury will reach minimum of 10 degrees. El- dorado, Ark, in the extreme southern part of the state. reported five inches of snow, the heaviest fall since 1917. Cold Wave Warnings Cold wave warnings issued today and tonight predicted temperatures of from eight to eighteen degrees above zero in northern Arkansas and from 20 to 24 in western Tennessee by tomorrow.
 Wire communication throughout the area swept by the storm was badly disarranged with communica- tion cut off to some sections, while to others only intermittent service could be maintained. Both the tele- 0r1nh and fp1pnhona fae tered all available linemen and to- night reported not more than 10 per cent of the lines radiating from Memphis out of commission.
 In Memphis about 400 local tele- phones were reported dead"
 Due to recent heavy rains along its tributaries. the Mississippi river was rising rapidly tonight with stage of 33 feet at Memphis, two feet below flood stage, predicted for late next week. A weather bureau forecast to- day indicated that the Mississippi would continue to rise for an indefi- nite period. Cold weather, which prevailed today along the Ohio river however, was expected to retard the rise in that river which empties the greatest volume of water into the Mississippi and possibly reduce the maximum stage in the latter water.
 MORE COLD PREDICTED
 WASHINGTON, Feb 3,-A cold snap for the Atlantic east gulf states, Tennessee, the Ohio valley and the lower lake region was forecast to- night by the weather bureau for to- morrow with the lower temperatures continuing Monday. The drop of the mercury, it explained, was due to a high pressure area which already has been atteuded hv a cnId ...