ARTICLE V, 
NOTES ON NEW BRUNSWICK WEATHER FOR 1911 
By D. Leavitt Hutchinson. 
January . — Weather conditions throughout the month were 
most variable and temperature changes remarkably pronounced, 
mild, wet and thawing, and very cold following in rapid sequence, 
A spell of cold weather between the 16th and 23rd gave tempera- 
tures much below zero in all localities, attended by thick vapour 
in the Bay of Fundy. The scarcity of snow was an important 
feature; bare ground obtained during the greater part of the 
month, but the heavy fall near its close was of valuable assistance 
to the lumbermen in southern New Brunswick; southwest gales 
on 2nd and 21st; heavy northwest gales on 29th and 31st. 
Highest temperature was 52 at Grand Manan on the 4th, lowest 
24 below zero at Chatham on the 18th. 
February . — A fine, bright cold month with zero temperatures 
of frequent occurrence, and only two short intervals of thawing 
weather. The mean temperature was below the average, and 
the amount of precipitation decidedly deficient, but the ground 
was everywhere snow covered with good roads throughout the 
month. The gales of the month were unimportant. Highest 
temperature 57 at Sussex on the 24th, lowest 28 below zero at 
Dalhousie on the 6th. 
March.— In general March was abnormally cold, tempera- 
tures well below zero being locally recorded between the 1st and 
7th. The latter half of the month was stormy, nearly the total 
precipitation occurring during that period. A southeast to* 
southwest gale on the 15th and 16th, with a maximum velocity 
of 52 miles at St. John, was attended by heavy rain. The 
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