Suffolk County 



091 



throughout the year, and requires many steamers, power boats, and 

 schooners. About two carloads of fish are sent from Montauk and 

 other eastern towns daily, jmncipally flounders, weak fish, blue- 

 fish, and sea bass. Oysters are shipped in large quantitic3 from 

 Sayville and Greenport. 



Shipbuilding is an important business at Greenport, Hunting- 

 ton, and Port Jefferson. There is also a large brickyard at Green- 

 port. Other important manufactures within the county are as 

 follows : cigars at Riverhead ; laces and hats at Patchogue ; but- 

 tons at Amityville; Fulton Motor Trucks at Parmingdale; and 

 torpedoes and watchcases at Sag Harbor. 



CLIMATE AND RAINFALL 



Climatological records for Suffolk County have been taken 

 from the Setauket station, which has an elevation of forty feet. 

 The present observer is S. B. Strong. 



The average dates for .the last killing frost in spring and the first 

 in fall are April 15 and November 8, respectively, giving a growing 

 season of 20-7 days. 



The following table covers the period 1900 to 1918, with the 

 exception of the average temperature and precipitation, the record 

 of which was begun in 1S86 : 



Record of Temperature afd Precipitation at Setauket 



January. . . 

 February. . 



March 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August 

 September . 

 October. . . 

 November . 

 December . 



Year 



Temperature 



30.0 

 29.4 

 36.9 

 47.3 

 58.0 

 66.2 

 72.1 

 70.7 

 64.8 

 54.7 

 44.2 

 34.7 



50.8 



Highest 

 maximum 



Degrees Year 



66 



62 



7G 

 86 

 91 

 92 

 98 

 95 

 90 

 82 

 71 

 63 



98 



1916 



1915 



1910 



1915 



1900 



1901 



1911* 



1900 



1914 



1916 



1914 



1912 



1911 = 



Lowest 

 minimum 



Degrees Year 



—6 

 7 

 25 

 34 

 40 

 51 

 50 

 37 

 31 

 16 



— 7 



1914 

 1918 

 1916 

 1909 

 1917 

 1907 

 1912 

 1905 

 1904 

 1914 

 1901 

 1917 



1917 



Precipitation 



Average 

 inches 



4.05 

 3.90 

 4.26 

 3.68 

 3.40 

 2.64 

 4.24 



46 07 



Amount in 24 

 hours 



Greatest 



record, 



inches 



2.92 

 2.28 

 2.66 

 2.60 

 2.96 

 1.61 

 3.80 

 4.25 

 3.17 

 6.37 

 2.62 

 2.35 



6.37 



Year 



1900 

 1900 

 1900 

 1901 

 1900 

 1905 

 1918 

 1911 

 1904 

 1906 

 1900 

 1915 



1906 



Snow, 

 average 



depth 

 in inches 



6.9 

 7.3 

 6.5 

 2.4 



T. 

 3 



5.8 



29.2 



: Also earlier years. 



