Winter’s Record to Be Set Tonight—Relief Next Week Indicated.
A cold wave sweeping in from the West put an end today to the comparatively balmy weather the Capital has been enjoying for the past week and, if the weather man’s predictions are borne out, will drive the mercury down to the seven-degree point tonight, a new low record for this Winter.
The only solace the Weather Bureau had to hold out against a prospect of two or three days of frigid temperature was that it sees no prospect of snow accompanying it. While the thermometer is flirting with the zero point tonight the sky will be cloudy and probably will continue that way tomorrow.
Although some temperature rise during the day is looked for tomorrow, the prospects are that Saturday night will be just as cold as tonight and may even hang up a lower record. No relief from the cold is in sight for two or three days at least. If the mercury goes down to the predicted 7 degrees tonight it will be 5 degrees under the lowest temperature recorded here so far this Winter, which was 12 degrees.
The temperature at midday was plainly indicating its intention of going down to a painfully low point tonight. Starling at US degrees at 8 o’clock this morning, it had done the unusual thing of dropping steadily during the day until it neared the 20-degree mark at noon.
The cold wave today was sweeping down through the Southern States, with a prospect of freezing temperatures tonight as far down as northwest Florida.
Evening Star, Washington, DC, January 22, 1934