ARTICLE VI. 
NOTES ON NEW BRUNSWICK WEATHER FOR 1909. 
By D. Leavitt Hutchinson. 
January . — Weather changes were very rapid during the 
first half of the month. Mild thawing weather from 4th to 6th. 
followed by an immediate return to colder conditions, temper- 
atures below zero being general on the 8th. Then moderately 
cold until the 13th. Between this date and the 19th, decidedly 
cold weather prevailed, excepting the 18th, when a change of 
remarkable rapidity occurred, with a range of temperature of 
52 degrees in twenty-four hours. Milder the 22nd, and then 
moderately cold until the end of the month. In most parts of 
Southern New Brunswick the ground was bare of snow, or 
nearly so, up to the 12th, but at the end of the month the cover- 
ing in Southern New Brunswick ranged from six to twenty-eight 
inches. A phenomenally heavy and record rainfall for January 
on the 5th and 6th, was the distinctive feature, causing much 
damage, freshets in rivers and streams, flooding of low lands, 
and unusual delay to railway and other traffic. This storm was 
attended by heavy thunder and lightning, and a southeast to 
southwest gale, with maximum velocity of eighty-four miles 
per hour in the Bay of Fundy. The highest temperature was 
fifty-six at Sussex, on the 6th ; lowest, minus twenty-five, at Dal- 
housie, on the 17th. 
February . — Very low temperatures were general on the first 
four days, followed by alternating periods of mild, thawing and 
moderately cold weather. Fine and bright on fourteen days, 
snow on seven, rain on three, and rain and snow on three days. 
Six gales occurred during the month, the heaviest being from 
the southeast and southwest, that on the 10th was accompanied 
by snow, sleet and rain, and one from the southeast on the 24th 
with snow, turning to rain in southern parts of the Province. 
More than half the total snowfall fell between the 15th and 17th. 
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