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Show Weather Runs amuck Sixty or 80 years hence, when those who are children now get to be "oldest inhabitants," they will no doubt be bragging about "the terrible cold wave of January, 1912." There was no fault whatever to be found with this cold wave, as a cold wa e. All though the northern and eastern part of the country coun-try the mercury went down as low as it could and then broke the thermometers In Chicago it was the coldest for 40 years. In New York it was so cold that thi-y hail to turn !.tic .-t.i:n on in tin.' polar tit ars' dens in thi sun, it. u';i-- too frigid for them. Snow fell in New ( Orleans for the first time in years. It j went as low as 50 and 55 below zero on j the northern border, and some good braggers report CO. At Washington the mercury went down to 13 below, and even the weather bureau, which always makes the weather out cooler in summer and warmer in winter than it ! is, had to own up that all records were broken as far back a3 1899. Many people over the country have been frozen to death and there has been much suffering suffer-ing especially in the South, where the people are not prepared for such severe weather. In many cases kitchen ranges exploded and hurt people, as a result of the water-back being frozen. While the eastern part of the country was thus depressed so low, the westward end of the see-saw was phenomenally high in the air. At Los Angeles, which is getting get-ting to be a place where wonders never cease, it was almost up to 98, and people were asking: "Is it hot enough for you?" It is the general opinion that the weather machinery has slipped a cog and that temperatures will now behave better for awhile. |