ARTICLE III. 
NOTES ON NEW BRUNSWICK WEATHER FOR 1912. 
By D. Leavitt Hutchinson. 
January . — The distinctive feature of the month was the 
steady and extremely cold weather with but two brief intervals 
of thawing temperatures. Snow fell on twelve days, light 
rain on three. At St. John, the average temperature was 
the lowest since 1888. Temperatures below zero were recorded 
on twelve days, attended by thick vapour over the Bay. 
An exceptionally heavy gale from the southeast through south- 
west to northwest occurred on the 9th and 10th; at Point 
Lepreaux it reached hurricane force and some local damage 
resulted. At the close of the month the depth of snow ranged 
from three inches near the coast line to two feet farther 
north. Highest temperature 51 at Sussex; lowest 31.5 below 
zero at Fredericton. 
February . — A month of steady though not extremely 
cold weather. Excepting between the 9th and 12th, few or 
no zero temperatures were recorded. The only thaw occurred 
with the heavy rainfall of the 22nd. Snow fell on eight days, 
snow and rain on one, while the remaining days were mostly 
fine and bright. A heavy southeast through southwest to 
northwest gale on the 22nd and 23rd, and a gale from south- 
east and east on the 27th were the only storms of the month. 
The last mentioned was accompanied by the heaviest snowfall 
of the winter in New Brunswick. Highest temperature 48.7 
at Grand Manan; lowest 29.5 below zero at St. Stephen. 
March. — Weather was of a very wintry type, rivers and 
lakes remained ice-bound with little prospect of an early 
opening. In southern New Brunswick good sleighing pre- 
vailed until the 15th, when a heavy rainfall put an end to 
( 49 ) 
