Cambridge, Mass.
1899.
January.
  The month began clear and cold with the ground deeply
buried in snow. Of this a portion remained from the great
November storm but about eight inches fell on the night of
December 31st. At sunrise on January 2nd the thermometer 
stood at -8 [degrees], the lowest temperature of the whole month. At
noon on the 5th to the 26th the weather, for the most part, was
clear and mild the thermometer seldom falling below 20 [degrees] at
night and usually going above 32 [degrees] at noon, while it rose to,
or a little above, 40 [degrees] on the 11th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 23rd and
24th. Under these conditions the snow wasted rapidly and a
deluge of warm rain which came on the 16th removed practically
all that remained in the roads and fields while the grass,
which it had shielded from the severe frosts of late December 
and early January, came out almost as fresh and green as in
spring. There was a second heavy rain on the 24th but the
only snow fall which occurred actually within the month was
one of two or three inches on the evening of the 31st. On the
27th another cold wave began and lasted through the remainder
of January but the lowest temperature reached was 8 [degrees] on the
28th.