TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VIII 



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COMPARATIVE DATA FOR THE STATE— MARCH. 



YEAR 



1891 



1892 ! 



1894 



25.0 

 26.8 

 31.9 

 51.8 

 41.0 

 S4.4 



1897 32.0 



1898 37.5 



1899 23.0 



1900 30.7 



1901 34.2 



1902 39.1 



1903 38.8 



1904 34.8 



1905 41.5 



1906 27.1 



1907 40.6 



1908 37.9 



1909 32.5 



1910 48.9 



1911 39.4 



1912 24.9 



1913 31.9 



1914 34.7 



1915 39.3 



1916 j 35.2 



1917 I 34.6 



1918 i 42.9 



1919 : 37.5 



1920 38.0 



—5.3 

 —6.5 

 —1.4 

 —1.5 



+7.7 

 +1.1 

 —2.4 

 —1.3 

 +4.2 



—10.3 

 —2.6 

 +0.9 

 +5.8 

 +5.5 

 +1.5 

 +8.2 

 —6.2 

 +7.3 

 +4.6 

 —0.8 



+15.6 

 +6.1 

 —8.4 

 —1.4 

 + 1.4 

 —4.0 

 +1.9 

 + 1.3 

 +9.6 

 +4.2 

 +4.7 



1.57 

 2.60 

 2.22 

 2.14 

 2.03 

 0.83 

 1.10 

 2.39 

 1.94 

 1.62 

 2.06 

 2.64 

 1.45 

 1.38 

 2.18 

 2.04 

 2.34 

 1.35 

 1.58 

 1.53 

 0.17 

 0.93 

 2.01 

 2.48 

 1.69 

 0.96 

 1.57 

 1.84 

 0.63 

 2.33 

 3.02 



—0.20 



+0.83 



+0.45 



+0.37 



+0.26 



—0.94 



—0.67 



+0.62 



+0.17 



—0.15 



+0.29 



+0.87 



—0.32 



—0.39 



+0.41 



+0.27 



+0.57 



—0.42 



—0.19 



—0.24 



—1.60 



—0.84 



+0.24 



+0.71 



—0.08 



—0.81 



—0.20 



+0.07 



—1.14 



+0.56 I 



+1.25 I 



I 



8 7 



9 10 



8 14 



9 ; 10 

 12 12 



9 ' 10 

 8 i 13 

 11 11 

 13 

 15 

 15 

 16 

 10 

 11 

 9 

 2 

 6 

 10 

 10 

 11 

 14 

 11 

 9 

 5 

 8 



T. indicates an amount too small to measure, or 

 cipitation and less than .05 inch snowfall. 



than .005 inch pre- 



APRIL. 



The month was cold and wet. Since 1890 there has been but one colder 

 April and only four have had greater precipitation. The maximum tem- 

 perature, 78° is the lowest record and the minimum, 1°, is within 1° of 

 the record for April. Killing frosts or freezing temperatures occurred 

 on a large number of days over most of the State and on the 28th freez- 

 ing temperatures were general but owing to the backward season there 

 was practically no damage from frost. At points in the southern portion 

 of the State the lowest April temperature ever recorded occurred on the 

 5th. 



Precipitation was much above normal over the entire State except a 

 few small areas. An unusual feature was a heavy fall of snow on the 3d 

 and 4th, over most of the southern third of the State. The snow drifted 

 badly and it was the worst storm of the winter in that part of the State. 

 Trains were much delayed. Sleet occurred on a large number of days 

 but the storm that occurred on the 11th was the most damaging. Tele- 

 phone companies were the chief sufferers and the storm appeared to be 



