1903.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 33. 43 



EEPORT OF THE METEOROLOGIST. 



J.. E. OSTRANDER. 



The work of the meteorological division of this station 

 during the past year has been much the same as outlined 

 in previous reports. The abnormal temperature conditions 

 prevailing during much of the growing season caused more 

 than the usual interest in the monthly bulletins issued, and 

 in abstracts from them published by a considerable number 

 of the papers of the State. 



At the end of June, Miss S. C. Snell, the voluntary 

 observer for the United States Weather Bureau, resig-ned 

 after a service of more than twenty-five years. At the re- 

 quest of Mr. J. W. Smith, section director, the station has 

 arranged to furnish the temperature and precipitation records 

 on the voluntary observer blanks, in addition to the records 

 published in the monthly bulletin. All records for Amherst 

 now published in the monthly report of the New England sec- 

 tion of the climate and service of the Weather Bureau are now 

 credited to the Hatch Experiment Station, instead of only the 

 barometer and wind records, as formerly. Arrangements 

 have been made to furnish the weekly snow reports to the 

 Boston office the present winter, as heretofore. 



The local forecasts for the weather of the following day 

 have been furnished daily, except Sunday, as in former 

 years. Their transmission to the college by telegraph has 

 been less satisfactory than formerly, owing to the interfer- 

 ence of the electric currents of the local electric railways. 

 If our telegraph line from the Western Union office to the 

 tower could be relocated, so as to avoid this interference, the 

 forecasts could be received more certainly and promptly. 



The monthly observations of the declination of the mag- 



