Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1906 — MARCH WEATHER [ARTICLE]

MARCH WEATHER

Heaviest Fall of Snow of Winter This Week. MERCURY DROPPED CLOSE TO ZERO Last Year This Time Farmers Were Busy Sowing Oats, Now Several Inches of Snow Cover Oround. remaining snowfall of la9t week was added to Sunday night, Monday and Tuesday by several inches, and Tuesday there was probably a foot of “the beautiful” covering the ground, while in some places, where it had drifted, it was several feet in Alepth. The meroury was also down to within 12 or 15 degrees of zero each night, and Thursday morning was variously reported at 4 to 8 degrees above. Sleighs of all kinds and descriptions were in evidence the first few days of the week, and many merry sleigh-rides were enjoyed in town. The snowfall was quite general over the country and south of here and in Ohio and other places it was as heavy or heavier than bere.4 Practically all the snow was worn off the more traveled roads by Thursday, but in the fields and at the roadsides it is still much in evidence It is interesting to compare weather conditions here now with that of one year ago, and for the benefit of those of our readers with short memory we dip the following from The Democrat of April Ist last year: A REMARKABLE MARCH. The month of March 1905 will go down in history as one of the most remarkable March months ever witnessed. Winter broke off suddenly and the entire month of March has passed without a single typical March day. Bave for one "sap snow" the month was devoid of winter or any semblance of winter, and there were no windy, blustering days at all. Farm work and garden making has been in progress for the past two weeks, and many farmers have finished sowing their oats. Fruit and shade trees are beginning to put out buds and a day or two more such warm weather as that of the past few days will cause the shade trees to leaf out in full. The same conditions practically prevail the country over.

Bat while we had a mild March last year, April was cold and disagreeable and garden truck, oats or other vegetation grew very little during the month, and it was several weeks before the trees that budded in March opened out in full foliage. It is to be hoped that as we are having oar March weather, with Borne solid winter thrown in, this year during March, that we will have April showers, and April Flowers in April.