. The climate and weather of Baltimore . e contrast was even moremarked in the United States. While the minimum of 65° below zerowas being experienced in Western Montana, the temperature in WesternWashington (just across the Eocky Mountains, a distance of less than300 miles) was 63° above zero, a difference of 138°. This anti-cyclone, or cold wave, which overspread the United Statesfrom the 9th to the 11th of February, caused heavy snows to the south-east, along the line of advance. By the morning of the 12th a baro-metric depression began to develop over Northern Florida, and heavysnow was fa
. The climate and weather of Baltimore . e contrast was even moremarked in the United States. While the minimum of 65° below zerowas being experienced in Western Montana, the temperature in WesternWashington (just across the Eocky Mountains, a distance of less than300 miles) was 63° above zero, a difference of 138°. This anti-cyclone, or cold wave, which overspread the United Statesfrom the 9th to the 11th of February, caused heavy snows to the south-east, along the line of advance. By the morning of the 12th a baro-metric depression began to develop over Northern Florida, and heavysnow was falling in the Gulf states, the South Atlantic, Middle Atlantic,and Southern New England states, with fresh to brisk north to northeastwinds and falling temperature. At the same time the anti-cyclone inthe west, maintaining its severity, was moving southward and the morning of the 13th the center of the depression, which formedover Florida on the preceding day, moved northward along the coast, 384 . THE CLIMATE OF BALTIMORE. Fig. 132.—The Blizzard of February 9, 1899. o«^ HIGH - -4o I 2 o * >) ^ O ^- . 1
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