Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1917 — Nor’wester Headed Straight For Us—Partly Arrived. [ARTICLE]

Nor’wester Headed Straight For Us—Partly Arrived.

True to the prediction of the prognosticators, February arrived bringing with her cold .wave, accompanied by high winds. Tearing down from Alaska and the British northwest, where it has been gathering for several days, the storm has already struck Montana with full force and has ci-ept into Minnesota and lowa. Prognosticators predict that by Friday morning Chicago and vicinity will see the thermometer registering around twenty degrees below zero. Meanwhile, the city is facing another coal shortage, not having had time to recover from the recent tie-ups in coal shipments. The lowest temperature so far reached was at Medicine, Hat, Alberta, which had 46 below zero weather. At Butte, Mont., it was 42 degrees below and at Havre 36 below.