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bulletin of the natural history society. 
ARTICLE VII. 
NOTES ON NEW BRUNSWICK WEATHER FOR 1907. 
By D. Leavitt Hutchinson. 
January . — The weather of the first nine days of the month 
was comparatively mild, the remainder exceedingly cold. At 
times temperature changes occurred with marked rapidity and 
many days of considerably below zero readings were recorded. 
At St. John the lowest temperature for twenty years — 16.9 
was registered on the 7th. The snowfall was not excessive and 
near the Bay of Fundy bare ground obtained until the 11th. 
Northerly winds predominated with the velocity at St. John 
twenty-eight hundred miles, in excess of that of the same month 
last year. The highest temperature 53 was recorded at Moncton 
and the lowest — 30 at St. Stephen. 
February . — A remarkably cold and stormy month. Tempera- 
tures below zero, at many places, were of almost daily occur- 
rence. Snowstorms were frequent and at times heavy. Rain fell 
heavily on the 21st, and was followed by a period of intensely 
cold weather lasting until the close of month. The depth of 
snow at the end of month was from thirty to sixty inches in 
most localities. The highest temperature, 46.2 at Grand Manan, 
and the lowest -33 at St. Stephen. 
March . — There was considerable fine, bright weather during 
this month, but as a rule it was quite cold, especially *during 
the first part of the month when temperatures below zero were 
recorded at intervals in all districts. Precipitation, which fell 
mostly snow, was below the average. At the close of month 
the snow covering varied from a trace in southern to upwards 
of two feet in northern counties. Highest temperature 56.5 at 
St. Stephen, lowest -34 at Woodstock. 
April . — Exceedingly cold and wintry weather obtained 
during the greater portion of the month, snowstorms occurring 
