32 Eighth Annual Repout of the 



17th and an excess over the normal on nearly every day there- 

 after. The Gth was the coldest day which has occurred since 

 this Bureau was established in 1889, and probably for a much 

 longer period. The deficiency of precipitation was most marked 

 in southeastern New York, and ground water was reported as 

 very low in several localities of that section. The ground was 

 generally free-from snow through the second decade and toward 

 the close of the month; only ten days of thin sleighing being 

 reported from Malone, while in the Great Lake region the dura- 

 tion was rather longer. Lakes and streams which were open 

 during the warm period late in December, were frozen about the 

 close of the first week, and a heavy ice harvest had been com- 

 pleted along the Hudson river and* in other localities, before the 

 warmer weather of the latter half of the month. Less than the 

 usual wind travel was reported from the western and inland 

 stations, the maximum velocity being reached along the sea- 

 coast. 



Eight areas of high pressure (approximately) passed eastward 

 over the vicinity of this State in January, the respective dates 

 being the 2d, Gth to 8th, 11th, l.jth, 18th, 23d, 28th and 31st. After 

 the 2d of the month a nearly permanent high pressure system 

 became established over western British America, and the drift- 

 ing anticyclouic areas generally originated in that region. De- 

 pressions of temperature accompanied all of these areas, but the 

 only notable cold wave attended the second area, which traversed 

 nearly the entire United States between the 3d and 7th. 



The low-pressure areas, nine in number, in most cases devel- 

 oped over the southern and central States, or over the ocean, and 

 generally passed in the vicinity of New York. Depressions passed 

 north of the State on the 1st, 3d and 13th; along the coast on the 



