Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1904 — Plenty More Zero. [ARTICLE]

Plenty More Zero.

There is now plenty more zero weather to be placed on record for this winter of unusual cold. Saturday night was a pretty cold one, the U. 8. thermometer just touch ing the zero mark, at some time during the night. Towards morning however it clouded up and snowed a little, and Sunday at 7 p. m. it was three degrees above. Sunday was an exceedingly severe day, with the highest ten..perature not above 5 degrees and a brisk wind prevailing. In the afternoon the mercury struck a steady gait downward at the rate of one degree per hour, and at 6 o’clock was 5 below zero. Had the pace been kept up the night would have been a record breaker for the winter, but the wind changed, the sk j grew clouded, and 7 degrees below was the lowest point reached, It warmed considerably from this, towards morning, and at 7 a. m. it stood at three below.

After this big snow storm from the northeast, the natural course of events will be a clearing wind from the northwest, and another intense cold wave.