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NOTES OF THE WEATHER—JANUARY, 1867. 
FROM THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 
This month was characterized by its steady low temperature and the number 
and severity of snow-storms. 
Gardiner, Maine-—The mean temperature of the month was 4.77 degrees 
below the average of thirty-one years, and the amount of rain and melted snow 
83 hundredths of an inch less than the average for twenty-nine years, There 
was sleighing and the river was frozen every day during the, month. 
Standish, Maine-—January 17.—Roads completely blocked up; drifts from 
one to twenty rods wide, and from one to eight feet deep. It took some districts 
two days to break out their roads. 31.—The month has been very dry; snow 
softened in only three days in the roads; the ground is frozen but a little in the 
woods. 
Cornish, Maine—Mean temperature of the month 2.15 degrees lower than 
the average of January for the last thirty-five years. i 
Stratford, N. H—January 31.—There was only fourteen and a half inches 
of snow during the month; one foot deep in the woods now, not quite enough 
for lumbering purposes. 
North Barnstead, N. H.—The month of January was remarkably severe. 
The snow-storm commencing in the night of the 16th blocked the roads up so 
as to be impassable, and before travel could be resumed the storm of the 20th 
came. ‘The daily mail was delayed fromthe 18th until the 25th. 
Barnet, Vermont—There was much less snow in January than usual, (only 
ten inches,) and the weather being very cold, many cellars froze that never froze 
before. ' 
Craftsbury, Vermont—This has been the coldest January since that of 1657. 
Snow fell on thirteen days, but in small quantities, five inches on the 26th be- 
ing the greatest, and the whole amount eighteen inches. 
New Bedford, Mass—The harbor north of the bridge has been frozen over 
much of the month in the most rapid current, and the part south of the bridge 
has been unusually encumbered with ice. The outer anchorage has not been 
much frozen, though there was sometimes much floating ice. The snow-storm 
of the 17th was the most severe for many years. For about a week the rail- 
road to Boston was obstructed, which had never occurred before for so long a 
time. 
Kingston, Mass—January 17.—A great storm of wind and snow; the 
heaviest fall of snow for ten years; fifteen inches. 
Milton, Mass —January 17.—Snow-storm commenced at 3} o’elock a. m.; 
wind moderate, northeast. Between 8 and 9 a. m. wind increased greatly, and 
the snow came with great violence. It raged until 6 p. m. and ceased about 11 
p- m., drifting and blocking up all roads and railroads, and bringing everything 
to a stand for about two days. Depth of snow on level, twenty inches. 
Jorth Billerica, Mass —January 17.—Hardest snow-storm since January 
17, 1857, when the “'Tedasco” was wrecked at Swampscott. 21st, another 
great snow-storm ; railroads blocked up. 
Lunenburg, Mass.—This January was the coldest since Januaty, 1857. | 
Pomfret, Conn —There was an unusual amount of low barometer this month; 
sudden changes with great range. The cold was not extreme, but the mean 
temperature was 3°.7 below the average of anumber of years. A large amount 
of snow fell, rendering the roads impassable. There has been no storm here 
like that of the 17th since January 18, 1857. 
North Hammond, N. Y—January has passed without its accustomed thaw ; 
not a day was warm enough during the month to thaw on the eaves of buildings 
