Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1907 — A Remarkable Spell of Weather. [ARTICLE]

A Remarkable Spell of Weather.

Few if any people remember a spell of January weather just like the one which was brought to an end by the change of wind to the northwest. It lasted for nine days during which it rained every day, and on three of the days the rain was succeeded by snow. The aggregate of rainfall was not so very great considering the many days it continued, being practically just three and a quarter inches. Some neighboring towns claim to have had much more, as Delphi for in stance wnere there were said to have been six inches or more. During all these nine days the weather was mild with almost constant cloudiness, and frequent and lasting fogs and mist. Towards the end the weather became very uu seasonably warm reaching as high as 65 degrees, last Saturday, and accompanied by a very high southwest wind. The sudden shifting of this high wind to the northwest with increased violence, which occurred sometime Saturday night, brought with it naturally a great drop in temperature, and in the 12 hours following fl v e o’ clock Saturday evening the fall was 50 degrees. The cold did not reach as low a degree as might have been expected, the lowest being still eight above zero, but the very high wind and great change made it severely felt. The change of the wind back to southerly today has again brought milder weather and mure storms. *