The Recent Cold Weather

Abstract

THE excessively severe and prolonged cold weather of the month of March has hardly a parallel in this century. It appears to have been felt throughout Europe, and has even reached the shores of Africa. Frost, snow, and wintry gales we expect at a season proverbial for its fitful severity, but the scarcely interrupted sweep of the frigid atmospheric waves which have overwhelmed us for three successive weeks is an experience of weather so remarkable that I conceive the record will probably interest some of your readers.