REMARKS. 



The mean temperature and rainfall was much above the normal. 

 All precipitation occurred between the 6th and 20th inclusive. The 

 greatest quantity of rain fell on the 19th and 20th, 2.33 inches being 

 recorded. But little frost occurred during the month and the last 

 ten days were generally fair and warm. 



The following is furnished by the New England Weather Service : 



The excessive drought which had prevailed throughout Massachu- 

 setts in June continued in September until the 19th-20th when from 

 one to two inches of rain came. The wells and springs were lower 

 than ever before known in many sections and though this rain was 

 not sufficient to fill them up, it wet the top of the ground and filled up 

 streams a little. Late forage crops have been greatly benefited, the 

 ground has been put in condition for fall plowing, and grass and 

 grain seed has started nicely. Pastures and fields have started into 

 new life and look quite green, and fall feed will be generally good. 

 The month as a whole has been warmer than the normal ; at Boston 

 the excess amounts to slightly over two degrees a day. The frosts 

 of the 2r)th and 27th did considerable damage in all \ovr lands, 

 though a great deal of the corn had been cut, and other crops that 

 might have been injured, gathered. 



At Boston the rainfall for the month was about one inch less than 

 the normal amount. Nearly two-thirds of the whole amount for the 

 month came during the afternoon and night of the 19th. A very 

 heavy thunder storm passed across the northern part of the state on 

 the 10th doing considerable damage, by lightning, water and wind. 

 At Wincliendon almost four inches of rain fell on that date, more 

 than one inch coming in twenty minutes. Buildings were burned by 

 lightning in Worcester and Franklin counties, roads badly washed 

 and fruit blown off and trees injured. 



C. D. WARNER, Meteorologist. 

 FRANK L. WARREN, Assistant. 



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