ARTICLE V. 
NOTES ON NEW BRUNSWICK WEATHER FOR 1908. 
By D. Leavitt Hutchinson. 
January . — The weather in New Brunswick was unusually 
fine and mild. Rain or snow fell on nine days, two days were 
wholly clouded, and there were twenty days of bright weather. 
The wind velocity was exceptionally high, and gales were re- 
corded on the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 12th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 19th, 20th, 
23rd, 27th and 28th. Temperatures below zero were registered 
on the 15th, 19th, 20th, 30th and 31st, the intervening periods 
being remarkably mild. Thunder occurred on the 22nd and 
27th. The snow covering was light in all districts, with bare 
ground during the greater portion of the month in southern New 
Brunswick. The last day of the month was the coldest of the 
winter. The highest temperature was 54 at Sussex on the 8th; 
lowest, — 15 at Dalhousie on 31st. 
February . — The weather of the month was about equally 
divided between fine and unsettled days. The snowfall was 
iight. and varied much with the locality, the precipitation being 
as snow in some districts and as rain in others ; at no time was 
the snowfall normally deep in any portion of New Brunswick. 
From the 1st to the 10th the coldest weather of the winter was 
experienced, when below zero temperatures were of daily occur- 
rence, except on the 2nd and 7th. The remainder of the month 
was comparatively mild. An unusually severe storm prevailed 
along our coast on the night of the 1st and the morning of the 
2nd ; in the Bay of Fundy the wind reached hurricane force, 
accompanied by snow, rain and abnormally high tides; wharves- 
and breakwaters in many parts were badly wrecked, and some 
damage occurred on shore. The wind during this gale was 
from the southeast to southwest, with velocity of 84 miles per 
hour at Point Lepreau. Gales were also reported on the 6th, 
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