Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1913 — Fifty-Seven Varieties of Weather During This Month. [ARTICLE]

Fifty-Seven Varieties of Weather During This Month.

This is the fifth day of March and a right fine day, too. During the morning the sun shone with considerable warmth and most of the snow, whieh had been on the ground for several days, disappeared. So far we have had several varieties of weather, rivaling the Heinz “57 Varieties.” Saturday morning, March Ist, was bright and the temperature moderate. During the late afternoon it got colder and by 7 o'clock a real blizzard with a high wind was in progress. The temperature sank rapidly, reaching 8 below during the night Sunday was bitterly cold, the thermometer showing the mercury at about 12 above all day long. By Monday morning it had moderated considerably, and by 7 o’clock it was scarcely freezing. During the day it clouded up and rained and the rain turned to snow when another cold snap hit us Tuesday morning. Tuesday it snowed some more and remained quite cold. Today was fine until noon, when it clouded up. By 2:30 it began to rain and within an hour was snowing. The forecast is for colder and it sure looks like another blizzard was enroute.