Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1904 — January Put on Record. [ARTICLE]

January Put on Record.

The month of January 1904 has done it* worst and its best, and all rftat is now left for us is to put it-* dweds and misdeeds bh permanent record It wa-* to use a common description, a month of “O d fashioned win 11 was indeed a month of-sovere winter weather, and weather of manv changes, jet on the whole steadier weather than is usual herein winter; and with much fine winter weather. The records of the Rensselaer U. S. weather station show that there were 16 days in the month oloudlet-s enough to be recorded as clear, four partly clear, and eleven cloudy. It was a wet month for January. The total precipitation, including rain and melted enow, was 422 inches, The snow-fall one m >nth for three veara, at least was 22 inches, or more than on any Thi temperature fell below zero on 10 different days The total of all the below figures added together was 72 degrees. The total of such figures in December was 33 degrees. The only months for three years which approach this below zero total was Feb. 1902, with a sum of 61 degrees below, and Deo. 1901, with 59 below. The coldest during the month was 15 degrees bet iw on both the 4ch and stb, The warmest was 42 degrees, on the 21st. The greatest range on any one day was 40 degrees, on the 15th. The month was made memorable by a three days rain, beginnin on the th with a total rainfall of practically three inches, which, with the snow already on the ground, made the greatest winter fl lode securing here for many years.