REMARKS 



The outstanding features of the weather for February were the 

 unusually high temperature and the lack of snowfall. 



The mean temperature for the month was 30.0 degrees, while 

 the normal is 23.5 degrees. This is the highest mean for February 

 since 1889 except that in 1890 the mean temperature was 32.6 degrees 

 and in 1925 it was 32.1 degrees. The maximum temperature for Feb- 

 ruary was 55 degrees and the minimum only 6 degrees. Up to the 

 present time the thermometer has not reached zero for the winter, 

 the lowest being 5 degrees on November 25 and 28. 



The total precipitation was 2.23 inches, the normal for Feb- 

 ruary being 3.35 inches. Only one-half inch of snow fell during 

 the entire month, as against a normal of 14.27 inches. This is the 

 least amount of snow ever recorded at this station for February. The 

 nearest to this record was 2.5 inches in 1912. The snowfall th's 

 winter totals 16 inches as compared to a normal of 38.30 inches for 

 this period. 



An interesting feature of the weather was the extremely high 

 wind velocity on the 22nd. A maximum velocity of 48 miles was 

 recorded at 5:30 A. M. which is the highest wind velocity ever 

 recorded at this station. This was equaled only twice, i. e., on February 

 20, 1934 and March 8, 1932. 



There were 138 hours of bright sunshine compared with a 

 normal of 160 hours. 



The heating load to date is 4500 degree-days, the normal for 

 this period being 5011 degree-days. 



Dr. J. K. Shaw of the Department of Pomology makes the 

 following comments on the fruit crop: 



"Remarkably mild weather continued through February, and 

 no serious injury to fruit buds or trees has been observed. We may 

 now feel quite sure of a peach crop in 1937. The lack of snow is 

 not good for strawberry plants, and some crown injury from freezing 

 has been observed." 



