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Weather Watch
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★ ★ - Snow
- Drizzle
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- Freezing Rain
Sunset Today: 6:10 p.m.
Sunrise Saturday: 7:07 a.m.
Map Discussion:The intense low-pressure pattern over the Northeastern United
States will produce a significant snow event for that part of the country although
the coastal cities will be spared. Mpst of the precipitation along the coastal areas
will be in the form of rain. The frontal system over the Northwestern United States
will produce light snows with some moderate amounts in the mountains. Locally
we will enjoy a warming trend through the weekend with no rain, but Monday we
will see increased cloudiness and cooler temperatures again.
Forecast:
Today. Fair to partly cloudy and mild with the high in the low 50s and winds
easterly at 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight. Fair and cool with a low of 33 degrees and southeast winds of 3 to 5 mph.
Saturday. Fair and warmer with a high of 57 degrees and southerly winds at 10
mph.
Weather Fact Sublimation — the transition of a substance from the solid phase
directly to the vapor phase, or vice versa, without passing through an
intermediate liquid phase. In physical and chemical literature, it is customary to
regard as sublimation only the transition from solid to vapor, but meteoroligists do
not make this distinction.
Prepared by: Charlie Brenton
Staff Meteorologist
A&M Department of Meteorology
Valentine’s Day
provides chance
to celebrate love
By Jill Raupe
Reporter
Around Feb. 14 minds turn to
thoughts of love, thoughts of deli
cious chocolates packaged in beauti
ful, red, heart-shaped containers or
thoughts of a dozen, fragrant, long
stemmed roses accompanied with an
ornate card and a romantic verse.
The holiday of romance that leads
to such thoughts — Valentine’s Day
— has been celebrated for centuries.
Romans living before the Chris
tian era celebrated Lupercalia,
which was a lover’s festival held on
Feb. 15. Luperus was the god who
protected the Romans from wolves
that ravaged Europe by killing cattle
and sheep. During the celebration, a
goat and a dog were sacrificed to Lu
perus. Young men would hit people
with animal hides, and the women
enjoyed watching the whippings be
cause they thought it made them
more fertile.
Another custom involved writing
a woman’s name down and placing
the name in a box. The men would
draw a name and the paired couple
would remain together until the
next year’s Lupercalia.
When the Romans conquered En
gland in A.D. 43, the English inher
ited many Roman holidays. Romans
believed birds started mating on
Feb. 14, and this belief has contin
ued through modern times.
The Catholic Church gave a
Christian meaning to the pagan cele
bration. In A.D. 496, Pope Gelasius
changed Lupercalia on Feb. 15 to St.
Valentine’s Day on Feb. 14.
St. Valentine, a Roman priest, was
beaten and beheaded by Emperor
Claudius II on Feb. 14, A.D. 269, for
refusing to give up his Christianity.
One legend says Valentine was
friends with many children. When
the Romans imprisoned him for re
fusing to worship their gods, the
children tossed loving messages into
his cell window.
St. Valentine is now the patron
saint of engaged couples and has
been endowed with the power to
patch up lovers’ quarrels.
Another legend states that Valen
tine fell in love with his jailer’s blind
daughter. After restoring her sight
and before his death, he left her a
farewell note that he signed “from
your Valentine.”
The custom of sending verses can
be traced to a Frenchman named
Charles, Duke of Orleans. He was
captured by the English during the
Battle of Agincourt in 1415. On Val
entine’s Day, he sent a rhymed love
letter to his wife from his cell in the
Tower of London.
Many Valentine’s Day customs in
volved ways in which single women
could learn the identity of their fu
ture husbands.
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English women of the 1700s wrote
men’s names on scraps of paper,
rolled each in a little piece of clay
and dropped them into water. The
first paper that rose to the surface
was believed to be the paper that
contained the name of the woman’s
true love.
Another custom women practiced
was to pin bay leaves to their pillows
on Valentine’s eve. If luck was on the
woman’s side, the bay leaves would
act as a charm that would lead to the
revelation of her future husband in
her dreams.
Today in Great Britain and Italy,
unmarried women get up befoie
sunrise on Valentine’s Day and stand
by their windows waiting for a man
to pass. According to the custom, the
first man a woman sees will marry
her within a year.
Men practiced customs similar to
those followed by women on Valen
tine’s Day. A man would write wom
en’s names on paper, place the pa
pers in a jar and choose one. The
chosen female became his valentine
and he paid special attention to her.
For several days, each man wore his
valentine’s name on his sleeve or
over his heart.
Gloves were a popular gift to give
valentines during the 1500s, but
they were replaced later by messages
and gifts. In the 1700s and 1800s,
stores sold ‘valentine writers,’ which
were handbooks with poetry to copy
and suggestions about writing valen
tines.
Early valentines were hand-deco-
rated with paper, fabric and lace.
Mass production of valentines be
gan in the 1840s. People stopped
writing messages and began sending
ready-made cards of verse. More
valentines were mailed to sweet
hearts as the postage became
cheaper.
Cupid and the heart became com
mon symbols for Valentine’s Day
long after the original celebrations
began. According to mythology, if
Cupid, the god of love, shoots a
heart with a bronze arrow, the ro
mance will be painful. If he shoots a
heart with a golden arrow, the ro
mance will be blissful.
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