NINETEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART X 



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COMPARATIVE DATA FOR THK STATE— JANUARY. 



YEAR 



1890 



1891 



1892 



1893 .- 



1894 



1895 



1S96 



1897 



1898 



1899 



19i_K> 



1901 



190-2 



1903 



1904 



1905 



1906 



1907 



19{.)8 



1909 



1910 



1911 



1912 



1913 



1914 



1915 



1916 



1917 



1918 



19.7 

 26.0 

 15.3 



9.3 

 19.3 

 13.6 

 23.4 

 17.2 

 23.4 

 19.8 

 25.6 

 23.7 

 22.4 

 23.0 

 14.0 

 11.2 

 24.6 

 18.8 

 24.9 

 21.2 

 18.1 

 20.2 



4.2 

 20.9 

 27.8 

 17.5 

 17.8 

 17.0 



8.6 



T indicates an amount too small to measure, 

 tion. and less than .05 inch snowfall. 



or less than .uo5 inch precipita- 



BRILLIANT METEOR OF JANUARY 22, 1918. 



By D. W. Morehouse, Ph. D., Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. 



On January 22, about 6 p. m. central standard time, a very brilliant 

 meteor passed over the western portions of Iowa and Missouri. About 

 thirty observations which seemed to contain definite and reliable informa- 

 tion were collected in Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, including 

 notes made by cooperative observers of the Weather Bureau in Iowa. It 

 appears from these data that the meteor moved in a general direction 

 from north to south bearing slightly toward the east; that its path was 

 at a considerable height; and that the place of its disappearance is not 

 far from St. Joseph, Mo. Reports from Mason City, la., describe the 

 meteor as very bright and appearing a little west of south. A report from 

 Washta bears the same statement, except that it was then seen in the 

 south. A fragment is reported to have fallen on the farm of Rudolph 

 Peterson, three miles north of Creston, la. While the description is 

 scientifically untenable, it has some appearance of genuineness. The state- 

 ment is that, "It could not be approached for over 24 hours because it was 

 so hot. It was about the size of a bushel basket. The segment (fragment) 

 has the appearance of pumicestone and is apparently porous. There are 

 particles of iron in the stone." 



