BULLETIN 



OF THE 



Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station 



NUMBER 345 JUNE, 1920 



OHIO WEATHER FOR THE YEAR 1919 



W. H. ALEXANDER AND C. A. PATTON 



INTRODUCTORY AND GENERAL 



The year was characterized by a large amount of fine, open 

 weather with abundant sunshine, moderate temperatures, and well- 

 distributed precipitation, and was unusually free from extreme or 

 hurtful conditions, the weather as a rule being highly favorable to 

 the growth of crops and to farm work except toward the end of 

 the year when field work was interrupted more or less by the con- 

 tinuous rains. Practically the only abnormal conditions worthy 

 of mention were the light snowfall in January and the excessive 

 rainfall in October. In fact, it was the wettest October in the past 

 65 years and was among the warmest as well. The average tem- 

 perature for the year for the northern division was 50.9 (+1.5), 

 the middle, 52.2 (+1.3), the southern, 54.2 (+1.3), and for the 

 State, 52.3 (+1.4), while the precipitation averaged as follows: 

 northern division, 35.56 inches ( 1.13 inches), middle, 40.34 inches 

 (+2.44 inches), southern, 45.37 inches (+5.71 inches), and the 

 State, 40.33 inches (+2.09 inches). The temperature excess was 

 entirely general over the State but quite a number of stations in 

 the lake counties, also in some west-central and Scioto Valley coun- 

 ties, showed a deficiency. The excess precipitation was greatest 

 in the southeastern sections. 



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