4 

 REMARKS. 



The weather for the month has been cold and backward. The 

 ground is still in an unsettled condition and there is considerable 

 snow on the mountains and in drifts in sheltered places in the valley. 

 The mean temperature was below normal, also the precipitation 

 which occurred on thirteen days. A thunder storm of small intensity 

 passed over this section the 2oth. The first blue birds of the season 

 were seen on the 31st. The following summary is furnished by the 

 N. PL Weather Service : 



The weather for the month was influenced by the passage of nine 

 cyclonic and six anticyclonic areas. The former followed a very 

 southerly course in their movement eastward, and were not generally 

 extensive or severe. They gave a small amount of precipitation and 

 their southerly movement caused prevailing westerly and northerly 

 winds and hence a colder month than is usual. The correspondents 

 of this Service report a cold, bleak month with rain and snowfall 

 much below the usual amounts. There is still considerable snow in 

 the woods and in drifts in sheltered places, and the frost is not out 

 of the ground except along the southern coast. There rhubarb is 

 appearing, and some plowing has been done, and peas and potatoes 

 put in. Though the season is considered late, the condition is not 

 unfavorable. 



One correspondent in Essex county reports that all small fruits, 

 strawberries especially, have been badly winter-killed, and a few 

 report injury to clover by the freezing of ice water on the fields ; but 

 generally the fields and gardens have been well covered with snow all 

 winter, and it is thought the roots are in splendid condition. Fruit 

 has not been injured, except peaches to a small extent during the 

 cold spell of February 6th to 8th. 



Most of the snow has melted slowly by the sun and has gone into 

 the ground where it will do much good, but generally ponds and 

 water supplies are all unusually low for the season. The maple 

 sugar season is very late and the prospect not encouraging. 



F. L. WARREN, Observer. 



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