REMARKS. 



The past month has been an unusally pleasant one for this season 

 of the 3'ear. 



The atmospheric pressure has been quite constant and very high, 

 the range of pressure being exceedingly small. 



" The storms, travelling generally to the north of us, moved slowly 

 during the latter part of the month, while the earlier ones moved 

 with greater rapidity and were followed more quickly by cold 

 waves. The most notable of these that of the 5th. — 7th. insts. in 

 New England developed in the Norlhwtbt on the Ist.iust.and spread 

 generally and uniformly over the entire country, as predicted by the 

 Weather Bureau twenty hours before its arrival. As the ground was 

 entirely bare during this cold wave it is thought considerable injury 

 has resulted to grass and grain roots and to the roots of fruit trees, 

 although not so much as would have been caused had it occurred 

 later in the season." (Abstracted from J. Warren Smith's January 

 report., — N. E. Weather Bureau. 



The mean temperature has been about four degrees below the 

 normal. The first three days of the mouth were very warm, the 4th. 

 -18th. insts. decidedly below the normal, while from that time to the 

 end of the month the temperature, with a few minor exceptions has 

 been above the normal. The 6th. inst. with its minimum temperature 

 of twelve degrees below zero ( — 12°) and mean temperature eight- 

 tenths of a degree below zero ( — 0.8°) is worthy of special note. 



The precipitation has been exceedingly small, but 1.07 inches of 

 water, and while the meadows and hills have been covered with 

 snow since the 9th. inst. there have been but five days of sleighing 

 during the month. 



LEONARD METCALF, Acting Meteorologist. 

 JAMES L. BARTLETT, Asst. Observer. 



