REMARKS. 



The temperature for the month was about 3° above the normal, 

 the highest means occurring on the 11th, 16th, 17th, 18th, and 23d. 

 The rainfall was six tenths of an inch below the normal and occurred 

 mostly on the 3d, 4th, and 30th ; on the last date a heavy thunder 

 shower was recorded. The middle of the month was dry and hot. 

 The following was furnished bv the New England weather service : 



The controlling agent of the weather for Massachusetts for the 

 month of June was an area of high barometric pressure which moved 

 from the central Mississippi valley to the southern Atlantic coast on 

 the Sth, then held there, shifting slightly back and forth, till near 

 the end of the month. It appeared to deflect the storms northward, 

 and there was a drifting line of low pressure areas moving eastward 

 to the north of us. With the adjustment of the air pressure the pre- 

 vailing winds were of course from the south and they came across 

 our section generally dry and hot with but few clouds to obstruct the 

 scorching rays of the sun. On two occasions, the 24th and 29th, 

 small antic^'clones spread across northern New England, causing cool 

 northeasterly winds and clouds along the coast, but the relief was only 

 temporary. At Boston the mean temperature averaged nearly 3° a 

 day above the normal while at Fitchburg it was nearly 2° above. 

 The mean day temperatures averaged much higher comparativeh', 

 because for the most part the clear sky allowed free radiation of 

 heat from the ground at night and a consequent lowering of the night 

 air temperatures — holding the mean for the day down near the nor- 

 mal. Tiie precipitation at Fitchburg was 1.00 inch and was 1.75 

 inches below the usual amount. At Boston the total was only .80 

 inch and was 2.42 less than usual. At Concord, Mass., only about 

 half an inch fell. Local showers prevailed in the western counties 

 and in some parts ot the eastern giving some relief to the crops, but 

 in other places especially in the east almost no rain has fallen for 

 weeks and everything is suffering. 



C. D. WARNER, Meteorologist. 

 FRANK L. WARREN, Assistant. 



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