Volume 17 , Issue 5

One Hundred Years Ago, 9 February 1915

One hundred years ago today (9 February 1915) one of Topeka State Journal's front page headlines dealt with the weather: "March And May." Temperature and sunshine combine features for Kansas on that date. March temperature with May sunshine was the weather combination 9 March 1915.

And the best thing about it was that there is more of practically the same thing in store. The forecast called for fair weather with a slight rise in temperature. It was a southeast wind that was turning the trick.

On this date in 1899 the quicksilver was down to 17 degrees below zero, and February 12 of the same year 25 below -- and it might have been mentioned that February of 1899 was the coldest month of any year experienced in Topeka in 28 seasons.

The minimum temperature the morning of 9 February 1915, at seven o'clock was 26 degrees or eight above the normal night temperature.

The wind was twelve miles an hour from the southeast that afternoon.
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