The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-11-22
LITTLE TOUCH
OF WINTER IS +.
|REC0RDEDHERE
Doesn't Last Long This Morn
ing, and 1t May Not Con-
tinue, Indications Are
WHAT RECORDS SHOW
There Is a Lot of Warm
Weather to be Made Up
For by Cold Weather

Bismarck early this morning saw
what appeared to be the first real
harbinger of winter. Overcast skies,
rain and sleet, some of it whitening
the ground for bit in places, spell
ed doom to beautiful fall, in the
minds of many, and meant that the
change which had come would turn
into a mantle Of snow with chill
winds. The Hidications appeared to
be wrong later, when bright sun
flooded the city, although predic-
tions for the night and Sunday were
somewhat gloomy. There appeared to
the weather bureau, however. a good
chance of the disturbance favoring
Bismarck and change occurring
during the day which would upset the
predictions rs they appeared from
the early state Of the weather.
There was snow in eastern Montana
and western North Dakota-not
heavy snow, but snow just the same,
viz "CaSuSI OuiSou 1SPVlsSu Asa
jamestown it was cloudy but not
raining. Williston reported .O6 of an
inch Of precipitation in "a hours to
Il. M, with cloudy weather. while
Fargo reported clear weather early
today.
Some To Make Up
According to the law of averages,
it is about time for the weather
overlords to disturb the beautiful
fall weather and give some cold
weather. The year 1924, to date, has
registered an average temperature of
about one degree above normal The
weather bureau records for 40 years
back show that things usually aver
age up for the year. and a warm sum-
mcr may mean a cold winter, or it
may be the other way round. Ac-
cording TO the law of averages, about
24o degrees above normal are to be
absorbed in cold weather.
The present disturbance, however
pretty much missed Bismarck. There
is low pressure area, which gives
most of the precipitation, in Wyom-
ing and Colorado and another in the
Great Lakes Region. Bismarck, being
between the two, has got little dis
turbance from the west.
Some weather records have been
established this year. October, ac-
cording to o. W. Roberts, weather
observer, was the warmest in the his
tory Of the state. 1t also was the
only October during which the pre-
vailing winds were from the south
east.
The Indian Signs
The signs Of the Indians and others
on the winter are beginning to ap-
pear, but the weather bureau officials
can't see much in them. Mr.. Roberts
was told that the Indians at Elbo-
woods say the coming winter will be
the worst ever known, while the In
dians at Standing Rock when he was
there during the fair figured it was
going to be a nice winter.
One hunter said it would be a
hard winter because ducks had more
down on them than he has even seen,
while Mr.. Roberts found one with
practically no down at all, just pin
feathers.
Fur-bcaring animal predictions
are conflicting, but the weather Of
ficials can't take much stock in them.
Mr.. Roberts says that if there is
an early spring, and the animals re-
leased from Information early, they
will develop a heavy coat Of fur, be-
cause there will be more time to grow
it and to mature. An old Canadian
Northwest trapper, Mr.. Roberts de-
clared, told him he had studied the
relation Of the fur on animals to the
Forthcoming winter for years, and
he found no prediction could be based
on it.