February 1899 Temperatures in Union Parish Louisiana Plunge to 15 Below Zero!

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 12/2006



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February 1899 Temperatures in Union Parish Louisiana Plunge to 15 Below Zero!
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From the Farmerville "Gazette"; issue of Wednesday, 15 February 1899, page 3, column 2
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                                 Severe Weather  

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   North Louisiana people won't have to go to the blizzard-stricken Dakotas to get a 
taste of wintry blasts this year. They got it right here in the "Sunny South" last week; 
and got it in dead earnest, too. The cold weather was of the all-wood-and-a-yard-wide 
quality. It was the pure article, genuine and unadulterated with anything that was the 
least kin to summer. 

   The government standard thermometer, which was furnished to Judge Chandler, former 
signal service reporter for this parish, registered seven degrees below zero Saturday 
night. It did not appear satisfied with that record, however, and Sunday night it 
showed eight degrees lower, or fifteen degrees below zero. 

  The thermometer was in a hosue with cracks big enough for the icy Artic breezes to 
circulate freely; and hence the record given might be considered the real temperature. 

   The weather was cold enough Sunday night to freeze chickens to death on their roosts. 
It was cold enough to freeze hogs (the four-legged sort) in their beds. It was cold 
enough to freeze 110 proof coal oil in the stores. It was cold enough to freeze ice 
sufficiently thick to enable men to walk across the D'Arbonne on ice. In short, it was 
entirely too cold for "we uns" of the "Sunny South" to call for a repetition of it.


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From the Farmerville "Gazette"; issue of Wednesday, 15 February 1899, page 3, column 4
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The snow of last Thursday was very general throughout North Louisiana. In some places 
it fell to a depth of ten to twelve inches. About Farmerville it was nearly five inches 
deep; but that was enough for us.



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