Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1901.
February.
  The mercury ranged above 32 degrees on the 4, 9, 16, 17,
18, 19, 20, 25 and 26, the extremes of temperature being 33
degrees on the 9th and 20th, and 45 degrees on the 26th.
On the remaining 19 days the mercury did not get above the
freezing point during the whole day. It never ranged lower
than 10 degrees but on 18 days it reached 20 degrees or less.
This temperature combined with the high winds that have prevailed
 during a good part of the month has made it very disagreeable.
  The average maximum temperature was 29.78 plus, degrees.
The average minimum temperature was 17.75 degrees.
  Though the ground has been white throughout the month
with bare spots interspersed here and there but little snow
has fallen. Indeed the only occasion that could be dignified 
as a snow storm was on the 4th when it snowed from early morning
 till late afternoon, about eight inches falling. This
made a depth of ten inches for the month opened with 2 1/2
inches on the ground. On the 12th a few flakes were in the
air; on the 17th enough snow had fallen in the night to cover
the bare spots; on the 23rd about 1/4 inch had fallen in the
night; and on the nights of the 25th and 26th about 2 1/2 
inches in all fell.  This was all the snow for the month.
  No rain has fallen and on 19 days it has been either ab-
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