OCR Text |
Show SEVEREST COLO WAVE OF SEASON WASHINGTON. Jan. 2. A special bulletin was Issued today by the weather bureau, as follows: "Tho cold wave that opened the prosent year In tht Northwest was the most severe of the sfason. It follows fol-lows a disturbance that moed down tho eastern slope or tho llocky mountains moun-tains to westorn Kansas aud thence northeastward to lke Superior. wh"r( b as antral this niorninn wrr;''-riVi'W'ITTTirininifcga" attondod by general snows and rains ove- tho eastern half fr the country. "In the meantime high pressure of great magnitude has overspread tho entire WcBt, and the cold wave covers the whole lutorlor of that section. "Tho cold wave will maintain its severe character and temperatures below be-low the freezing point njr be expected expect-ed by Wednesday morning well Into southern Florida, while over tho middle mid-dle northorn riixfrlrtA thrv rnnjro fro mzero to 20 or 2 degrees bolow H over cxtremo northorn districts. - tH |