REMARKS. 



The mean temperature and precipitation for the month were much 

 below normal, three-fourths of the precipitation falling during the 

 storm of the 8th ; the same observations wei*e taken at Blue Hill 

 Observatory showing that the storm wave extended throughout the 

 entire state. The pressure, also, on the above date was the very 

 lowest on record at this station. 



The following is furnished by the New England Weather Service : 



The month of February has been cold and dry. The coldest spell 

 for the mouth and in many places the coldest and most disagree- 

 able for years was from the '3d to lUth. The temperature has regis- 

 tered lower than it fell at any time during the cold spell, but there 

 was a strong northerly gale and it was continued cold. At Boston 

 the mean temperature on the Gth was only 4° above zero, being 22^ 

 below the normal temperature for this time of year. The snowfall 

 was not excessive but it was badly drifted and railroad trains were 

 delayed throughout the state and practically stalled in some west- 

 ern counties. The ice accumulation in Boston harbor was the great- 

 est for many years, and other harbors along the coast were almost 

 blocked with ice for a number of days. 



The precipitation was very light throughout the state and at the 

 Weather Bureau Office, Boston, it was almost 2.50 inches below the 

 normal amount. Water supplies continue low in the mterior and 

 northern sections. The snowfall has been slightly below the usual 

 amount, but the ground has been exceptionally well covered and it is 

 probable that no injury has been done roots of grass or grain. 



Eight cyclones and live anticlones influenced the weather in Mas- 

 sachusetts. Of the former one passed across our district from the 

 west, one passed across from the south, two moved up the eastern 

 coast, three passed easterly to the north of us and lay over the lakes 

 at the end of the month. The cyclone which came from the Mexican 

 Gulf and passed to the north across eastern Massachusetts on the 

 7th and 8th, was the most severe for the month. It was very ener- 

 getic and gave the lowest barometer reading at Boston ever recorded 

 there. It gave sharply rising temperature and heavy rain in the 

 southeastern part of the state on the early morning of the 8th, but 

 snow in all central and western districts. The northeast gale which 

 preceded the storm and the northwest one which followed were both 

 severe and did great damage along the coast. The cold wave that 

 followed it, while it was disagreeable was not especially severe in 

 this section, but it carried the arctic cold far into the southern states, 

 moving the frost and snow line almost to southern Florida. 



C. D. WARNER, Meteorologist. 

 FRANK L. WARREN, Assistant. 



