Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1903 — February As It Was. [ARTICLE]

February As It Was.

February has been a short month but an awful busy one in point of weather. the old man’s oxen, “it is little but Oh My!” It is the lightning change artist in tbe oireus of the months. From the first to the last it has been a mouth of many==ehang* s. Yet on the whole it has been a ratheY mild winter month, with considerable very fine weather, and very few violent storms. There whs only one severe cold spell, but that was very severe, with below zero every day for three days and all day for one day, and with an ‘extreme low mark here of 14 degrees below, and of considerably lower than that in some neighboring places. The 17th, 18th and 19th were the cold days, and it is said they were record breakers for the last half of Febiuary. The warmest days of the month were the 2nd and 27th, with 48 and 49 degrees, respectively. The greatest temperature range on any day was 30 degrees, from 6 to 36, on the 9th. The month came in bare and went out bare, although there was 16| inches of snow fall. It was a rather wet month, having 3J inches of precipitation, including the rain and melted snow. There were 12 clear and 7 partly clear days, which is a pretty good sun-shine record for February. The other 9 days were recorded as wholly cloudy. There were not many stormy days, despite the large precipitation. Only 7 days in fact when there was a measurable quantity of rain or enow; and on 6 other days traces of rain or snow. Lastly the month leaves with the ground practically wholly free from frost; which is unusual for the last of February. A full line of the faithful old Moline Farming tools at Lee & Poole’s, at McCoysburg.