CLIMATE OF NEAV-YORK 



211 



Robins first seen, 



Shailbush in bloom, 



•Peach in bloom, 



Currants in bloom, 



Plum in bloom, 



Cherry in bloom, 



Apple in bloom, 



Lilac in bloom, 



Strawberries ripe, 



Hay harvest commenced,. 

 Wheat harvest do. 



First killin,? frost, 



First fall of snow, 



Mean Date. 



March 19 



May 1 



« 2 



i( 4 



" 6 



" 7 



" ]5 



" 15 



Mean temperature, 



Mean annual maximum,. 

 Mean annual minimum,. 

 Mean annual ransre 



June 



July 



« 



Sept. 

 Nov. 



12 



8 



25 

 23 



5 



4b" 49' 



92° 00 



12° 00 



104° 00 



44 

 48 

 57 

 58 

 52 

 52 

 59 

 45 

 58 

 34 

 45 

 57 



59 

 59 

 59 

 59 



b-^ 



«^ 



266 

 168 

 175 

 269 

 264 

 250 

 374 

 151 

 210 

 127 

 186 

 471 

 536 



577 

 550 

 551 

 550 



1st District — Long-Island. Observations have been made at 

 Oyster Bay, Easthampton, Jamaica and Flatbush. The feature 

 which distinguishes the climate of this section is the uniformity of 

 its temperature, occasioned by the equalizing influence of the 

 ocean. The places at which observations have been made, are all 

 at a low level, in the extreme south part of the state. The great- 

 est heat of summer is 1 J° less on an average, than in other parts of 

 the state which are further north, and more elevated. On the 

 contrary the extreme cold of winter is less by 10*^ to 18®, and has 

 been so uniformly, every year for the past fifteen years. It is worthy 

 of notice, that the temperature of Easthampton and Jamaica, is 

 considerably less than is due to latitude and elevation. The for- 

 mer place, it is 2°. 55, which is a greater difference than at any 

 other place in the state. This fact is also indicated by the back- 

 wardness of the seasons. The trees bloom there later by a week 

 I than they do in the interior of the state, and two weeks later than 

 ' at the west end of the island. The spring is but a little earlier 

 than on the Black river, in Lewis and Jefferson counties. But 

 I notwithstanding the lateness of vegetation in the spring, agricul- 

 'ture does not appear to be so much retarded. Strawberries ripen, 

 and the wheat harvest commences there earlier than the averao-e of 

 the state, though considerably later than at the west end of the 



• The peach is considered the mean for the middle and south part of the state only, 



