NEBRASKA WEATHER SERVICE FOR THE YEAR 1886. BY GOODWIN D. SWEZEY, Director Boswell Observatory, Doane College, Crete, Nebraska. JANUARY. The month opened with a storm of considerable energy in Texas, which moved in a north-easterly direction, accompanied by heavy snow in this region. This storm was very widespread and disap peared in the St. Lawrence Valley on the 4th. The severest storm of the month developed in western Kansas during the afternoon of the 6th. At the time of its formation a cold wave made its appearance north of Montana. The storm at first was the area of high Cold wave flags a weak depression, and was pressed southward by pressure till it reached the Texas coast on the 7th. were ordered up in eastern Nebraska on the afternoon of the 6th; this was a genuine "norther," wind blowing that night from the NNW at from forty to fifty miles an hour at Crete; the temperature fell thirty-nine degrees in twenty-four hours. The cold wave moved with great rapidity southward, causing a severe "norther" in Texas, with intense cold weather, which was destructive to animal life and the sugar-cane in the sugar-growing regions of Texas and Louisiana. The storm, continuing its northeasterly movement, was central over the Chesapeake Bay at midnight of the 8th, and was last observed on the 10th over the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The lowest temperature of the month was on the 8th during the passage of the cold wave. On the 14th another storm made its appearance in Texas, moved northeastwardly to the lake region, and was followed by a cold wave, for which flags were ordered up here and which were justified by a fall of twenty-two degrees. The next considerable storm was on the 18th; it was also followed by a cold wave. On the 22d a cold wave made its appearance in the north-west and gradually overspread all districts; and a fourth cold wave with a fall of thirty-one degrees came on the last day of the month. |