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NOTES OF THE WEATHER FOR MARCH, 1803. 



FROM THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Gardiner, Maine. — Comparing the four winter months, December, January, 

 February, and March, with those of the past thirty years, the result is as fol- 

 lows : The river has been frozen one hundred and thirteen days ; the average 

 for thirty years is one hundred and twenty days. There have been sixty -nine 

 and a half days' sleighing ; the average is eighty-one and three-fourths. Ther- 

 mometer below zero twenty-one nights; average number, twenty-two. Mean 

 temperature of the winter 22.09"; mean of winter for thirty years, 22.70°; 

 amount of snow, seventy-five and a half inches ; average, seventy-eight and a 

 half inches. 



Steuben, Maine. — March 26. — An iinintern:pted snow-storm of three days 

 has given about two feet of heavy damp snow. 



IVehster, Maine. — March 25 and 26. — Probably the greatest snow-storm of 

 the season ; too much drifted to be measured. 



West Waterville, Maine. — More rain and snow fell during this month than 

 in any other March since the register was begun, (ten years.) 



Claremont, Keic Hampshire. — March 31. — Frost lingers deep in the ground, 

 and is unusually slow in working out ; until lately no water soaked in, but all 

 ran off. The sugtir season is backward, and not very promising. 



Concord, Xeic Ha??ips/(irc. — March 16. — Robins and blackbirds made their 

 first appearance ; wild geese passing north. 



Georgetotni, Massachusetts. — ]March 10. — Bluebirds seen ; robins were seen 

 one week previous. 12th, birds very numerous ; blackbirds in flocks, and the 

 song of birds from every side. Spring, in appearance, fairly opened this morn- 

 ing. Birds are one week later than in the spring of 1S65. About six inches 

 of the ground was free from frost on the 1.3th ; probably there were two or 

 three inches of frozen ground below ; it was solidly frozen afterwards. On the 

 31st, three or four inches were free of frost. 



Richmond, Massachusetts. — The month has fulfilled the idea of a stormy, 

 changeable March, and has given nearly every variety of weather that the cal- 

 endar can furnish. The snow-storms from the 20th to the 26th were fully 

 equal to any in the winter ; the snow drifted much. On the 27th sleighs 

 were out in numbers, in the fore part of the day, but it was only for a day. 

 There are many drifts remaining on the first of April. 



Mcndon, Massachusetts. — March 16. — During a heavy rain at 2 p. m. two 

 heavy claps of thunder. The first one shook many houses so that crockery 

 rattled on the shelves. 25th, ice all gone from the ponds. 31st, frost mostly 

 out of the ground. 



Neic Bedford, Massachusetts. — March 2. — Bluebirds seen and heard. 16th, 

 new grass gives a tinge of green in some localities. The following account of 

 the opening and closing of the river Acushnet, north of the bridge, is from a 

 record kept by Miss Charity P. Allen, of Fairhaven : Frozen over on the 

 night of December 22, 1865 ; the ice broke up December 24. Frozen over 

 again January 8, 1866 ; first crossing, January 10 ; last crossing, February 14. 

 Frozen over again February 16 ; ice broke up February 20. Frozen over 

 again March 1 ; broke up, finally, March 2. 



Pomfret, Connecticut. — This March has been the coldest but one in sixteen 

 years. 



South Hartford, Xcw Yorh. — March 31. — There has been no snow during 

 the month; mud in unusual quantities has abounded, causing the roads to be 

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