The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-02-09
BY CYRIL E. CAIN
No. lo-stormy Weather tconi'e


North, Mississippi was still in
the hands of the Indians at that
time with the exception of the
strip east of the Tombigbee run
ming north from Columbus.)
1917. A year of constant rains.
1918. August 25th to 28th hur-
ricane from Louisiana through
Alabama, flooded Mobile and
stranded a large brig on Dau-
phine Island.
1923. February 10th the Their
mometer down to 5 degrees at
Mobile, the lowest on record up
to that time.
1875. A dry summer. A year
without a winter. The cotton
crop. which seemed almost ruin
ed by the drought, was open early
in the fall. Showers in Septem-
Der caused a second growth and
fruitage, which matured a fine
crop during the winter. This en-
tailed a great loss on the specula-
tors, who had bought up the
first crop in the fall and were
holding it for higher prices.
1882. A year of heavy rains,
extraordinary floods, and a cold
winter. The thermometer drop
ped to 8 degrees below zero in
North Micciccippi
1883. Although this year set a
record for great floods and the
rivers were higher than ever be-
fore, it is known as the year the
stars fell" This falling of the
stars took place on the night of
November 18th. Shouting and
praying was the order of the
night and for several days after
and prophets arose everywhere to
tell of the coming of the end of
time.
ls34-3s. Extremely cold win
ter. February 81, 1885, have
since been known as the Gold
Friday and Saturday" Streams
froze over to where they would
bear the weight of horses. The
forests again sounded like artil-
lery fire.
ls45. Known as the dry year of
the southeastern states. Missis-
sippi and Alabama made fair
crops but in Georgia and South
Carolina there we're complete
failures.
le47. Unusually mild up to the
middle of April and all vegeta-
ton we'll advanced. Corn was
waist high, cotton had from four
to six leaves, and leaves in the
forest about grown. On April
10th there was a killing frost as
far south as central Mississippi
accompanied by snow. Snow was
two inches deep in Charleston,
S. c. Cotton and corn had to be
replanted.
The years 1852, 1856, 1860
dwice), 1870, and 1888 brought
storms and gales at Mobile with
some destruction of PROPERTY.
The year 1884 brought eighteen
tornadoes to Alabama and almost
as many the next year. Missis-
sippi did not have so many tor
nadoes.
1888. This is the year of the
October" storm, which came on
3rd. It set a new record
in many respects, highest flood
waters from the ocean. eighty
miles per hour wind at Mobile,
no record at New Orleans since
all the measuring instruments
wrecked. Great property destrue-
ton at Mobile and some loss of
life. two thousand lives lost
around New Orleans.
1885. First week in January
and about the middle of Febru-
airy considerable snow and ex-
tremely cold. Mercury stood near
zero in both of these spells nearly
to the coast. All bluebirds, which
were numerous, were killed by
the February freeze, and after
nearly fifty years they are not as
numerous as before that freeze.
Snow extended farther south in
Florida than ever before. and the
orange trees were killed in the
main orange belt.
1888. Very cold for a week pre-
vious to February 18th when q
snow storm began and con
tinued till the next day. At Mo
bile the temperature was one de-
gree below zero and in the north
ern part of Mississippi, IT degrees
below. For the second time in
twenty-eight years the peach
blooms were killed in the bud so
that there were no peach blooms
in the state.
1900. In April the water on the
Pascagoula was the highest ever
known: at Dead Lake. where
there we're some eighty thousand
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