MONTHLY TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES 



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JMMd SN JMMJ SNJMMJ SNJMMjSN 

 1956 1957 1958 1959 



Figure 38. — Monthly temperature anomalies at Mobile, Ala., Galveston, Tex., and Key West, Fla., 1956-59. 

 Note the "warm winter" in 1956-57; the "cold winter" of 1957-58; and the differences between Key West 

 and the northern Gulf In the winter of 1958-59. Anomaly, in °C. on left. 



PREVAILING WIND- FEB. 1956 



Figure 39. — The prevailing winds over the Gulf of Mexico in February 1956. 



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