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in Michigan since 1874. Average snowfall was 8.1 inches, as against the 

 normal of 1.9 inches. 



May, 1907. 



New York. Mean temperature for the State, 50. 4 , was 6.2 below 

 normal and the lowest for May since the establishment of the Climato- 

 logical Service. Freezing temperatures were general over all sections of 

 the State, including Long Island; on the 12th and on several days at the 

 close of the month the temperature fell to or below the freezing point. 

 Killing frosts occurred throughout the month till the 30th. Average 

 snowfall was 2.1 inches, and the percentage of sunshine was below the 

 average. 



New England. The marked feature of the month was the very low 

 average temperature and the absence of the warm days that usually occur 

 in May. The average temperature, 49. 9 , is the lowest that has been 

 recorded and is 5.4 below the normal. Snow fell as late as the nth, the 

 latest date on record. 



New Jersey. The monthly mean temperature, 55.4 , was nearly 5.5 

 below normal and the lowest for twenty-five years. Almost stead ily 

 below normal with unseasonably cool nights throughout the month. 

 Freezing temperatures on the 5th, 12th, 22d, 29th and 30th. Frequent 

 and heavy rains with low temperatures retarded growth in all districts 

 and the season at close of month was unusually backward. 



Pennsylvania. The mean temperature, 5 4. 8°, was more than 5 below 

 normal and the lowest in eighteen years. Frosts and freezing tempera- 

 tures were frequent throughout the month. Snow flurries occurred in 

 many localities with considerable amounts in the northern counties. There 

 was a large amount of cloudiness and this with the abnormally low 

 temperatures greatly retarded all vegetation. The season was three weeks 

 late. 



Michigan. May was an unusually cold month with more than the 

 usual amount of cloudiness and snowfall, and was a continuation of the 

 very unseasonable and backward spring weather that has prevailed since 

 the 1st of April. It is the coldest May on record. Mean temperature, 

 44. 5 , was 7. 6° below normal. The average snowfall for the State, 2 



