Show J SNAP t Of OU DURATION ATlON i IL a 1 V RV b t f 1 l r- r December e er eather ai e Is Many Records for Win Win- tery Temperatures s. s The December vich which will ill come como come to fo a close tom tomorrow night will n go o ont o records of tho the local weather bureau eather au auas as the coldest December recorded ld in inthe tho the establishment of orthe the local olli in 1874 In III the thirty ix years th there ther rJ have ha b been en but lint two othor other m months nth's having t in an au average e temperature lower than thi December The Thc lint first one one of these was Januar January 1 1889 and tb the tho last one Jt 1898 If i. the thc pre present cold spell continues until tomorrow night there thero will ill berc bere corded twenty consecutive c las days of tho coldest weather since December 1905 1005 Tho The cra a average c temperature for tho assing ass ass- ing December has been blen 23 35 do degrees ces which is is but iS 28 8 de degrees ee above c the coldest month ever cr recorded that of January 1898 1895 when tho the 3 average a e was 20 7 For the nineteen consecutive d lays days s 's ending thi this morning the average temperature tem tern ha has been 21 4 degrees I above zero The cold colel spell set act in December 9 and the mercury has bas continued below the tho freezing point cr c every ery day 1 and night since then except December 13 when the maximum was 3 35 degrees above zero or or 3 degrees above the fre point The coldest l e wa was as December 18 when tho the thermometer registered 4 degrees above zero zelO which was vas tho the coldest point since 1905 Long Cold Spoil Spell A. A II H. Thic Thiessen section director of the local weather bureau stated f that the temperature promises to o ri rue rise e this afternoon n and ln thereby blast the making mak mak- makin in jug ing of the record for tho tim longest cold period p rio in local history It would re- re Q c lc but tomorrow Saturday and Sun Sunday Sunday day to establish c that th record as tho the longest coM cold spell of ot th the kind ever tr recorded recorded re corded cordell hero bere continued but twenty four r days das ThC The nineteenth day r of the thc pres pres present ent ept cold coM spell will ill conclude e this this' afternoon afternoon after after- noon at 6 Tho The present rout spoil I l however we r lam jar outclasses those of other years vear The Thc average temperature so o far faT has hits been rl Je degrees aboya z zero ro while hile the cold- cold cst cht average a ra t in any an other for the t hp t same ame number of lays has lutS been 2133 degrees T This is cold old snap WitS was in m De Do- cember comber 1905 In Iu 1876 a cold coM wave TaTe struck the city and f established ed an average c temperature for for twenty ria days S of 2613 dIJ degrees s andin and loti andin in in 1878 a a Jik like number of days darl had usda a n amean mean temperature of tJ 20 I 7 During tho pre present month tho the highest high high- est t st temperature rl was nis t 4 45 degrees de fie- ne- ne grees greos 5 e abo 7 zorn ro on ou December D. D A At that point th the m mercury took look a ln plunge downward and r remained I dawn dann until December 13 when orn it Jt ventured II above boo the freezing freer a point only to ho lao back down and kept there v vSnow Snow for Watch Night 5 j Partly cloudy dandy and anti warmer tonight with probably snow tomorrow i h what the tho Tt weather bureau lisa has arranged for forthe forthe the weather menu Over the plateau region and the thc northern Rocky mo mountains and in ill Montana Mon tana and the Dakotas tho the cold wave continues with reports of snow at man many points point II I Locally tho the hi high h pressure is 8 giving ins i way t Ii to barometer ter which will Trill mean clou cloudiness anti and nd warmer WItTmer at- at rno |