Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1901 — BIG FALL OF SNOW. [ARTICLE]

BIG FALL OF SNOW.

WHITE MANTLE IS SPREAD OVER MANY STATES. Storm Originated in Southern California, and in Some Sections of the Conntry Was the Worst in Recent Years—Weather No: Cl!. One of the worst snowstorms that has visited Chicago in recent years suept over the city Sunday. Accompanied by high winds, the snow fell for twenty-sev-en hours without a break, leaving an average depth in the heart of the business district of eleven inches. The storm which gave Chicago its sticky white mantle gave the same treatment to the greater part of the central West. lowa, Missouri and Illinois were all in the territory where it was exerting its liveliest efforts, but Kansas and Nebraska to the west, and Indiana, Ohio and even New York and Pennsylvania to the east were all affected by it. It was not snow everywhere, however, which the Storm brought. In some places there was rain, while in special localities there were even thunder showers, lively and noisy enough to grace hot days in the summer time. An imaginary line drawn from St. Louis through Springfield, UK, and Lafayette, Ind., would have marked in a rough way the separation between the rain and snow territories. To the north and west the temperature was below 32 and snow fell. To the south and engt the temperature was higher and there was rain all day and snow in the evening. Louisville, Ky., is one of the cities which had the peculiar experience of a thunderstorm as a result of a winter blizzard. The thunder and lightning came in the middle of the day. Memphis, Vicksburg, Nashville, Fort Smith, Ark., and Oklahoma City all had thunderstorms in the early morning hours or during the night between Friday and Saturday. Came from California. The storm was not like the eold waves and most of the blizzards which come developed in the far Northwest, the Medicine Hat region. It came instead from the southern California coast. Chicago was right in the center of the region of heavy snowfall. Davenport, lowa, reported nine inches of snow, but towns as far away even as Milwaukee had not more than four inches, while that figure was about the average in the outlying regions of the storm. The average range of temperature was from 20 to 30 degrees in the snow regions. At Milwaukee it was 28 degrees. Further north, however, the cold was intense. A peculiar circumstance was that whereas the country just north of the United States border had weather 20 and 80 degrees below zero the country farther north, as, for instance, near Edmonton, saw the mercury rise up to 12 and 15 degrees above zero.