REMARKS 



The weather during the month of March was considerably colder 

 than usual but in other respects quite near the normal. The mean 

 temperature for the month was 30.9 degrees and the normal mean is 

 34.2 degrees. The continued cold weather during March with the 

 cold weather during the winter months brings the heating load to 

 6578 degree-days or' 11.5% above normal. The highest temperature 

 was 61 degrees on the 5th and the lowest 5 degrees on the 1st. The 

 total precipitation during the month was 3.60 inches and there were 

 5.5 inches of snow. The normal precipitation for March is 3.68 inches 

 and the normal snowfall is 8.11 inches. There were 193.7 hours of 

 bright sunshine compared with a normal of 201 hours. The total wind 

 movement was 4979 miles whereas the normal March wind movement 

 is 5738 miles. The prevailing direction was West. 



More than the usual damage has been done to light macadam 

 roads as the heavy frost has been coming out of the ground. Country 

 roads have been unusually bad. 



Dr. J. K. Shaw of the Department of Pomology offers the fol 

 lowing additional comments on the effect of the winter on fruit trees: 

 "Reports indicate that the severe temperatures have caused 

 much injury to many fruit plants. Tender varieties of apple 

 trees such as King, Gravenstein and Baldwin show injury to 

 wood and especially to the fruit spurs. Some injury even to 

 Mcintosh is reported. We may expect considerably reduced 

 crops and some permanent injury to trees .There is no reason 

 to fear severe root killing as there has been a good snow 

 cover. Peach fruit buds are practically all killed as far south 

 as Chesapeake Bay and there is some wood killing. There 

 seems to be no especially severe injury to healthy vigorous 

 bush fruits nor to strawberry plants." 



C. I. GuNNESS, Meteorologist 

 Herbert Jenkins, Observer 



