Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1908 — Some Early Zero Weather. [ARTICLE]

Some Early Zero Weather.

Zero weather scored a touch down some time Tuesday night, and although every one in these parts realized that it was quite cold not very many thought that the mercury had been pushed down below the zero mark.

Such, however, was the casej and the government weather station at St Joseph’s College, showed that the mercury some time during the night had registered 3 degrees below zero, which makes 35 degrees of freezing and means some real hard freezing. The sun shown brightly this Wednesday morning, but it has not warmed up very much, and the ground has not thawed out very much even where the sun shone on it all day long. The forecast is for rising temperature.