REMARKS. 



The month was unusually warm, the mean temperature being 5.4° 

 above the normal. The precipitation was much below normal ; sev- 

 eral cold waves and storms occurred during the month. The most 

 severe storm came on the 29th and 3Uth, when ten inches of snow 

 fell ; the wind blew at the rate of 52 miles per hour ; the pressure 

 went down to 28.88° in a few hours, a fall of nearly an inch. The 

 following is a summary of the weather in Massachusetts furnished 

 by the New England Weather Service ; 



The weather for the month of January for Massachusetts was gen- 

 erally warmer and drier than the normal. At the Boston Weather 

 Bureau the daily mean temperature was nearly 5° higher than the 

 normal for 21 years. At Somerset, according to the records given 

 by Mr. Elisha Slade, it was 4.8° above the normal. At Boston the 

 only days cooler than the normal were the 1st, !Jth, to 11th, and the 

 17th, while the othrrs were warmer than might be expected ; the 24th 

 showed 23'' too warm. The nights were generally cold and there 

 were at least two quite sharp cold waves on the 12th, 13th and 2!)tb. 

 At Somerset the precipitation was 1.70 inches below the average and 

 at Boston it was 1.20 inches below. The snowfall, until the last few 

 days of the month, was especially light, and in all the eastern part of 

 the state very little lay on the ground from the 1st to the 26th. A 

 heavy fall came on that day and again on the 29th and .",0th which 

 covers the ground at the end of the month to good depth. It is not 

 thought that the weather changes during the month were great enough 

 to injure fruit in any way, but grass and grain roots in most exposed 

 places must have met with considerable damage. The last storm 

 for the month was one of the most severe on record along the coast ; 

 the pressure at Boston went down to 28.78 inches, a fall of 1 inch in 

 12 hours, and the wind blew at the rate of 51 miles an hour from the 

 northeast. 



C. D. WARNER, Meteorologist. 

 FRANK L. WARREN, Assistant. 



