Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1878 — Manitoba Weather. [ARTICLE]

Manitoba Weather.

They have genuine cold weather in Manitoba, where the thermometer marks 30 degrees below zero for days together, and frequently drops to 50. A correspondent says that what is called a poudre day is exceedingly dangerous for the traveler—not because the tempera ture is then lowest, but because the air is filled with fine snow, so that sight is entirely obscured at a distance of a few feet. A. wind sifts the snow over the paths, obliterating all guiding marks, and the chilled traveler is lost. The almost unconquerable desire to rest is not the least important part of the danger. The coldest days are still “so magically still that all the usual t ounds of nature seem to be suspended; when the ice cracks miles away with a report like a cannon ; when the breaking of a twig reaches one like the falling of a tree ; when one’s own footsteps, clad in soft moccasins, come back from the yielding snow like the crunching of an iron heel through gravel; when every artificial sound is exaggerated a hundred fold, and nature seems to start at every break m the intense silence. The atmosphere is as clear as crystal, and the range of vision seems to be unlimited.” On such days a nose freezes with wonderful quickness, and it is reckless to expose that organ for many minutes. *