REMARKS 



With the close of the winter season a comparison of the tempera- 

 ture record with that of former winters can safely be made. Taking 

 the season as a whole from the ist of December to the close of this 

 month it can safely be said that it was the mildest winter within the 

 memory of the "oldest inhabitant." Using the temperature records 

 of this town, which extend back to 1837, ^^ previous year shows 

 such a high mean temperature for the four months. The winter of 

 1879-80, however, was almost as mild. The months of December, 

 January and March were all a few degrees colder than the corre- 

 sponding months of the past season. February, however, of that 

 year was more than seven degrees warmer than the same month this 

 year. The maximum and minimum temperatures of that winter 

 were both several degrees lower than those records of the season 

 just closed. February stands out as the only month of the winter 

 when the temperature conditions were nearly normal. 



March started out with a thunderstorm on the ist, and snow on 

 the 4th and 6th. The latter snowstorm furnished sleighing for only 

 a few days as the temperature rose to 59 degrees on the 9th. 

 Before the middle of the month the frost was practically all out of 

 the ground and the rains about that time settled the roads so that 

 they were fairly passable. The equinoctial storms were compara- 

 tively light and the transition to spring was practically completed by 

 them. 



The last week of the month was unusually stormy with a number 

 of heavy rains and severe thunder and lightning on several days and 

 on the 31st tliere was a severe hailstorm with thunder and lightning 

 and the heaviest wind of the month. The total precipitation was 

 two and one-half inches above normal. 



The month closed with the season fully two weeks in advance of 

 the usual conditions at the end of March. 



J. E. OSTRANDER, Meteorologist. 



H. W. ANGIER, Observer. 



