Evening star., 1940-01-19
Weather
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% snow-sweepers moved along car
tracks.
At a mountain camp near Hunts
vile, Ala, inhabitants stared at
thermometers. which read 8 degrees
below zero.
At Tuscaloosa, Ala, the mercury
dipped to above zero. A reading of
3 below at Memphis, Tenn, was the
lowest since 1918, and temperatures
throughout the South were gener-
ally lower than any time in the past
four years.
Driven before q 36-mile- AN hour
wind, the worst storm of the season
almost paralyzed traffic over a large
section of New York. The average
temperature in three western coun-
ties was IL below zero, while at
Watertown more than feet of snow
had fallen since yesterday.
Traffic was halted in the Water
town vicinity. many village schools
were closed and trains ran behind
schedule. A reading of minus 10 at
jamestown was the coldest in 10
years. An ice jam in the Niagara
River curtailed so per cent of the
flow of the American Falls.
Death Attributed to Cold.
In Pennsylvania one death was
attributed to the cold.
The thermometer dipped to 6
below at Pittsburgh, coldest weather
there since 1896. Ice gorges in the
Schuylkill River are getting worse
with engineers facing "the most
serious condition in the stream in
40 years" Eighty-five miles up the
Allegheny from Pittsburgh, an ice
gorge five miles long rose higher,
In Michigan the temperature drop
ped as far as 20 below zero at jack
son. Ohio readings ranged from 20
below at Greenville to 10 below ct
Youngstown. The weather was gen.
orally clear
Sub-zero readings were reported
from every section of Kentucky-18
below at Owensboro in the West, IA
below at Louisville and from IL to
16 below around the Cincinnati area,
where the Ohio River was frozen
from bank to bank.
There was light snow in Southern
New England, where ground tenn
peratures ranged down to II below.
Is Above at Galveston.
A hard freeze covered Texas, ex-
tending to the Gulf, with a reading
Of Is degrees above zero recorded
at Galveston. This was only Z de-
grees higher than the lowest OF
record there. At Dallas, skin of
ice covered the Trinity River.
Temperatures rose in the West.
It was above at Sioux Falls, S.
Dak., compared with "a below yes
terday. Winona, Mimi, where it
was II below yesterday, reported 3
above today.
Although still extremely cold, the
weather was moderating in Illinois,
Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri and Ne
braska.
Kansas highway crews worked all
night on roads in the Northwest,
attempting to clear them of snow,
which in some spots had drifted 10
feet deep.
The bitter cold wave brought
Maryland and Virginia their coolest
weather of the winter, with temper
atures in many places hitting low
est marks in years.
Sub-zero readings were general in
the mountains of Western Maryland,
while the mercury stayed in the low
20s in the Eastern Shore area. The
States coldest spot was Big Savage,
with a low of 13 below zero. A light,
dry snow fell throughout the State.
One Above at Winchester, Va.
In Virginia temperatures were SUBJ
stantially below freezing and in the
upper Shenandoah Valley, around
Winchester, q reading of one degree
above zero was recorded.
The mercury hovered at the Is
degree mark in the Richmond area
and the outlook was for about
zero" tonight. On the lower penin-
sula a driving snowfall was &C.
companded by 17-degee temperature.
Except in the western section, the
States highways were generally
clear, for the wintry gust whipped
the dry snow from the roads. At
Pulaski in southwest Virginia the
temperature dropped to two degrees
above zero.
In most sections Of the country.
intense cold was blamed for many
fires as householders add fuel to
overtaxed stoves. Several minor
blazes occurred in the District this
morning but no injuries and little
damage were reported.