Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1901 — Hicks for February. [ARTICLE]

Hicks for February.

The storm period in February is central on the fourth, covering the 2d to 7th. About Sunday, the 3d to the 7th, will be central days for a marked disturbance. The first stages will be warm in most sections, with low barometer and rain and thunder southward. High gales with possible danger need not surprise in southern and central sections, but the period will culminate sleet and snow, a high barometer and rushing blizzardous winds down from the northwest. Wintery, disagreeable weather will follow after these storms quite up to the reactionary storm days central on the 10th and 11th. On and about these there will be marked changes to falling barometer, warmer weather and more storms of rain and snow. Another decided change to colder, with high barometer and northwest winds, will result at the close of these reactionary storms. The next regular storm period ex tends from the 14th to the 18th. The disturbances beginning about the 16th, 17th, and 18th will not subside unti] after the 19th and 20th, and that some very heavy, tropical storms are probable, especially in the south, during these general and prolonged disturbances. The -hardest storms may be expected from about Monday, the 18th to Wednesday, the 20th. Continued unsettled weather, with squalls of lain and snow will likely prevail into and through the reactionary storm days, 21st to 22d, after which very wintery temperatures for the season may be expected very generally. The closing storm period fjr February itcentral on the 27th. The month goes out with falling barometer, higher temperature and rain and snow advancing trim western and northwestern extremes. The storms of this period will culminate about Friday and Saturday, the Ist and 2nd of March, in central and eastern parts of the country.