sections, and coming up in southern portion ; general out- 

 look promising. 



H'« I: ending May 14- — New England. Boston : Weather 

 unusually cool, ice half an inch thick formed on the 11th ; 

 peaches generally destroyed, tender vegetables killed, apples 

 uninjured ; little growth in vegetation ; farm operations 

 delayed ; season a week to ten days late. 



Week ending May ,JL — New England. Boston: Week 

 opened hot and closed cool, with heavy rain ; grass made 

 rapid, other vegetation medium growth ; much planting in 

 southern, little in northern part of district ; season two 

 weeks late. 



The Weather for May, 1900. 



May, as a whole, was a very unpleasant month. There 

 was much more than the usual amount of cloudiness and 

 very few days when the sky was wholly unobscured. The 

 rainfall was also considerably in excess of the normal 

 amount for the month. This was, however, fairly well dis- 

 tributed through the period. There was a general storm on 

 the 3d, during which rain fell in about all sections of the 

 State. The amounts were very large in coast sections. At 

 Boston the total rainfall during the storm was 2.46 inches. 

 General moderate showers occurred on the 8th and 9th. A 

 "spell" of unsettled conditions prevailed from the 15th to 

 the 21st, during which there were showers on each day in 

 parts or the whole of the State. The rainfall during the 

 19th was generally heavy, especially in coast sections where 

 the amounts ranged from 1 to 2 inches. 



The average temperature for the month was considerably 

 below the normal, the daily deficiency amounting to about 

 1° per day. With the exception of an unusually warm 

 day on the loth, when the mercury. rose to 93° at Boston, 

 the temperature was uniformly cool. Killing frosts were of 

 general occurrence on the 10th and 11th, and in many locali- 

 ties where the conditions were favorable, thin ice formed. 

 The lowest temperature recorded at Boston was 33° on the 

 11th. With two exceptions, May 3, 1874, when the temp- 

 erature was 32°, and again on the 3d in 1881, when it fell 



