peake Bay northward. West of the Eocky Mountains the 

 week was generally almost continuously cool, and it was 

 below the normal from Minnesota westward to Montana. 

 Local showers occurred the first of the week from the Lake 

 region westward to the mountains. Local rains again pre- 

 vailed during the middle of the week over portions of upper 

 Missouri and upper Mississippi valleys and Lake region, 

 and there was a rather severe storm on the Gulf coast on 

 Friday. Over the Atlantic coast districts from the Carolinas 

 northward the precipitation was light. 



Week ending August 21. — For the week, as a whole, the 

 temperature average was above the normal over the greater 

 part of the country, especially over the Great Plains region 

 and upper Mississippi valley, where the daily average ranged 

 from 4° to 8° above the normal. Small deficiencies occurred 

 only in portions of the lower Lake region and at a few 

 points along the middle Gulf coast. The night temperatures 

 were generally high over the principal agricultural districts, 

 not going lower than 55° over much of the country east of 

 the Rocky Mountains. At the beginning of the week un- 

 settled weather, with local, heavy showers, prevailed over 

 many portions of the districts from the Mississippi valley 

 westward, and on Wednesday the rainfall was fairly general 

 over the more eastern districts. Toward the latter part of 

 the week local showers again overspread the more southern 

 districts east of the Mississippi, and at the same time a con- 

 siderable rain area again overspread ITew England and por- 

 tions of the Middle Atlantic States. Only scattered showers 

 occurred during the week over districts west of the Missis- 

 sippi. 



Wee'k ending August 28. — For the week as a whole the 

 temperature average was below the normal throughout the 

 central valleys and Rocky Mountain region, also over a nar- 

 row area along the north Atlantic coast and along the coast of 

 California. The weekly temperatures were above the normal 

 by moderate amounts over most of the Gulf and Atlantic 

 coast States, in the far northwest and over the Sierra Nevada 

 region and the interior of southern California. Local showers 

 and thunderstorms occurred Monday and Tuesday in the 



