Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1905 — WEATHER ON INAUGURATION DAYS [ARTICLE]

WEATHER ON INAUGURATION DAYS

It may be'of interest to a large number of readers to know that of the 29 inauguration days thirteen were pleassant. thirteen were stormy; there is no record of the weather on the other three occasions. It may be assumed, however, that the weather was not very stormy or ths newspapers would have mentioned that fact. The published accounts of the ceremonies leave the inference that the weather was fair. Most of the pleasant inauguration days ocouired during tne earlier history of the Republic, which may be taken an evidence to confirm a popular theory that there has been a permanent change in the climate at Washington. At the weather bureau it is asserted that there has been no appreciable change, although it is admitted that there has been more enow and more cold weather during the last three or four winters than formerly, Of the last sixteen inaugurations twelve were stormy and only four were pleasant.