Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1905 — February Is Now Over. [ARTICLE]

February Is Now Over.

February is past and March has begun, and however many little deceitful tricks the latter month may have up its sleeve for us, and it is sure to have enough, yet the backbone of the gwinter is surely broken, , There will be no’more of the fearful strain of long days and weeks of zero temperature and no more long periods of deep snow. The cold snaps if they come will not last long, and the snows when they fall will soon melt'away. Old Sol has been slowly but steadily working northward, and has now got a pretty good grip on the ationThe month was characterized by two remarkable and sharplv contrasted divisions of weather. The first 16 days were desperately and almost unprecedentedly cold, and marked by sudden and extreme falls of temperature. Andon those 16 days, it was below zero 10 days, from 3 to 23 degrees and with a total of 124 decrees below zero. Then followed two days of transitory weather, and then 10 days of weather as mild and equable as the other 16 had been changeable and extreme. The snowfall during the month was 18 inches. There was 15 inches on the ground on the loth, but on the 28th very little was left except in drifts and well sheltered places. The preciptiation, mostly from melted snow, was 2 10 inches. The warmest day was 43 degrees on the 28th, and the coldest 23 betow on the 13th. There were Icorms on 8 days; 11 days were slear, 6 partly clear and 11 cloudy.