Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1920 — SOME COLD IN NORTH DAKOTA [ARTICLE]

SOME COLD IN NORTH DAKOTA

Average Temperature Past Three Months 22 Degrees Below Zero. A. E. Arnold writes The Democrat from Emerado,, N. D., under date of Jan. 27, and says: ‘‘l notice by The Democrat that you are haying some real winter, or, at least, you think you are. But I am sending you a clipping from the Grand Forks American of Jan. 24, showing you what a northwest winter really is.” The clipping follows: SOME WINTER Today coldest of the season, and snow has covered the ground for 9 4 days. Cold! Listen to this: X Today is the coldest day of the year, and winter up to Jan. 1 has ibeen the second coldest winter on record for 30 years, according to Prof. Howard E. Simpson, weather observer at the university. The thermometer at the university registered 30 degrees below zero at 7 o’clock this morning, and at 8 o’clock It registered 32 degrees below. Tod'ay is the 94th day of sleighing. The average temperature for October, November and December was 22 degrees below zero, while during the second coldest winter in 30 years—two years ago—the thermometer averaged a registration of 22% degrees below for the same months.