Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1903 — Old Zero Got Us. [ARTICLE]

Old Zero Got Us.

Our always freakish and sometimes ferocious olimate has nearly oat done itself this last round. Early Saturday morning it started with snow, then turned to sleet, and finally to a long warm rain, daring which the temperature reaohed 43 degrees, being the highest for the month so far. Then the wind shifted to northwestward and a driving drifting snow storm followed; with a snowfall of about four inches, though hard to measure accurately on account of its drifting. The storm lasted from early dawn to after dark, and the total precipitation was 1.98 inches, pr practically two inches. It was the largest amount of water in any one storm sinoe July 7, 1902. The fall in temperature whioh following this great discharge of rain wasalmost unparalleled in sad* denness and severity, only being eqaalled in recent years by a like sadden change, following* a great rainstorm, almost exactly two years before. From about three p. m. Saturday when the wind changed to northerly, until six a. m. Sunday morning, a period of 15 hoars the tempsratate fell from 43 degrees above zero to 11 degrees below, a difference 54 degrees.