Woods Hole, Massachusetts (Figure 7 , Table 7) 



January and February water temperatures were consistently below 

 the mean, giving the coldest winter since 1948. March and April 

 were "normal", May slightly advanced and June retarded. These 

 trends closely parallel the air temperature anomalies. The maximum in early 

 September raised the mean for the month to the 3rd highest on record since 

 1880. From mid-August through to the end of the year water temperatures 

 were uniformly above the mean, as were air temperatures. 



JAN 



FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC 



Figure 7. Woods Hole, 1959. (Dashed line, mean for period 1880-1956.) 



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