REMARKS 



The weather during the month of March was marked with 

 a very uniform temperature sHghtly higher than normal. The' 

 mean temperature for the month was 36.3 degrees, while the 

 normal for March is 34.2 degrees. The highest temperature 

 during the month was 58 degrees on the 24th and 27th, and the 

 lowest was 18 degrees on the 3rd. The normal maximum for 

 March is 63.9 degrees and the normal minimum is 5.7 degrees. 

 Frost came out of the ground early with less than the usual 

 breaking up of dirt roads, and the season as a whole is well 

 advanced. Dr. J. K. Shaw reports as follows: "Fruit trees 

 seem to have set fruit buds freely when the extremely heavy 

 crop of last year is considered. Peach fruit buds have come 

 through the winter with very moderate amount of killing. The 

 heavy snow protected strawberries so that they and other 

 herbaceous perennial ]:)lants have come through the winter in 

 good condition." There was practically no snow on the ground 

 on March 1. By March 5 there was 5>4 inches on the ground. 

 This had been reduced to 2 inches on the 8th and was com- 

 pletely gone by the 14th. There was a total snowfall of 7.50 

 inches during the month. The normal snowfall during the 

 month is 8.11 inches. The rainfall was 3. 79 inches which is .10 

 inches greater than usual for March. 



There was less than the normal amount of sunshine with 

 168.7 hour's. The normal amount of sunshine for March is 201 

 hours. The total wind movement was 5182 miles, while the 

 normal is 5738 miles. The highest wind velocity recorded was 

 32 miles per hour on the 18th. There was a general storm over 

 the state on the 8th with heavy snowfall near Amherst, but at 

 the station only 1 inch of sleet was recorded. 



C. I. GUNNESS, 

 K. M. WHEELER, Meteorologist 



Observer 



