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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Sunshine and Cloudiness. — The mean percentage of the possible amount 

 of sunshine was 68, or about 14 per cent Iiigher tlian the normal. The 

 average number of clear days was 19; partly cloudy, 6; cloudy, 5. 



Miscellaneous Phenomena. — Thunder was heard at a few stations, 

 most of them in northeastern Iowa, on the 2d; at Creston, on the 14th, 

 and in extreme eastern Iowa on the 24th. 



COMPARATIVE DATA FOR THE STATE— NOVEMBER. 



T indicates an amount too small to measure, or less than .005 inch precipitation and 

 less tlian .05 inch snowfall. 



DECEMBER. 



December, 1914, will go on record as a pleasant and agreeable winter 

 month, notwithstanding the fact that it was, with one exception, the 

 coldest December of record, and that there was more cloudiness, more 

 snow and a greater number of days with measurable precipitation than 

 usual. These adverse conditions were, however, counterbalanced by the 

 fact that the wind movement was extremely light, so there was no drift- 

 ing of snow or blizzardy conditions. Snow flurries were frequent after 

 the 7th, and the temperature was unusually low during the second and 

 third decades of the month. In some localities the 26th was the coldest 

 December day since December 31, 1863. 



