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1932 had three times the number of days above 32 °C (90 °F) than did the 

 average for all other summers between 1900-1935 (Chief of the Weather 

 Bureau Reports). Localized differences in this trend exist, and in New 

 England, the winter of 1932-33 was warmer than the previous winter. 

 Furthermore, New England had a warmer winter in 1889-90, and one nearly 

 as warm 1912-13. 



February water temperature in Woods Hole is generally the coldest 

 month of the year, and August the warmest. Water temperature data for 

 Woods Hole is not available for 1931, but is available for a station in 

 Nantucket sound, 30 km to the East, and a station in Rhode Island, 50 km 

 to the west for this and other years. At these neighboring stations, 

 mean February and August temperatures were warmer in 1932 than 1931 

 (Bumpus, 1957), which also coincides with air temperature trends 

 described above for New England. In Figures 20 + 21, February 1931 

 temperature data was estimated from a multiple linear correlation from 

 these stations (r2= 0.62, a > 0.05). August temperatures in Woods Hole 

 do not correlate well with the other stations and was conservatively 

 estimated as equal to the 1932 data. 



Like winter air temperatures over the Northeast U.S., water 

 temperature in February 1932 was the warmest since 1890, but February 

 1913 was only slightly warmer than usual (Fig. 20, top). Furthermore, 

 many subsequent years had February water temperatures nearly as warm or 

 warmer. August water temperature in Woods Hole (Fig. 20, bottom) show 

 less distinct cycling, and is out of phase with the winter climate 



