22 
CLIMATE OF THE VALLEY OF THE HUDSON, 
TABLE II. Comparison of mean temperature, and annual extremes of heat and cold, with the average of the 
State during the same years. 
FACTS OBSERVED. 
Mt Pleasant 
11 years. 
N. Salem. 
11 years. 
Goshen. 
7 years. 
Montgomery. 
1 4 years. 
Newburgh. 
13 years. 
Poughkeepsie 
12 years. 
Kingston. 
14 years. 
Redhook. 
12 years. 
Mean temperature .... 
Mean annual maximum, 
Mean annual minimum, 
Mean annual range.... 
+ 3°. 59 
+ 0.00 
+11.50 
— 11.50 
+ 1°.52 
+ 2.72 
— 0.55 
+ 3.27 
+ 1°.10 
— 1.57 
+ 1.00 
— 2.57 
+ 1°.33 
+ 5.86 
+ 1.00 
+ 4.86 
+ 2° 67 
+ 1.69 
+ 5.31 
— 3.62 
+ 4°.25 
+ 4.24 
+ 2.33 
+ 1.91 
+ 2°.97 
— 0.14 
+ 1 .43 
— 1.57 
+ 1°.92 
+ 0.75 
+ 3.42 
— 2.67 
FACTS OBSERVED. 
Mean temperature .... 
Mean annual maximum, 
Mean annual minimum, 
Mean annual range.... 
Hudson. 
9 years. 
Kinderhook. 
13 years. 
Albany. 
15 yeari. 
Lansingburgh 
14 yeair.. 
Cambridge. 
13 years. 
Salem. 
6 years. 
+ 1°.83 
+ 0.96 
+ 4.40 
— 3.44 
+ 0°.42 
+ 2.08 
— 1.54 
+ 3.62 
+ 1°.98 
+ 0.72 
+ 0.85 
— 0.13 
+ 1°.68 
+ 3.14 
— 4.57 
+ 7.71 
— 1°.10 
— 0.05 
—10.67 
+10.62 
— 1°.35 
+ 3.00 
—11.83 
+14.83 
Granville. 
7 years. 
— 0°.46 
+ 2.57 
— 9.14 
+11.71 
TABLE III. Comparison of the forwardness of the seasons, with the average of the State during the same years. 
FACTS OBSERVED. 
Mt. Pleasant. 
N. Salem. 
Goshen. 
Montgomery. 
Newburgh. 
i 
Poughkeepsie 
Kingston. 
Redhook. 
Hudson. 
Kinderhook. 
Albany. 
Lansingburgh 
Cambridge. 
Salem. 
Granville. 
Robins first seen. 
+ 11* 
— 6 
.... 
— 6 
.... 
— 6 
— 5* 
— 4 
— 5f 
+ 4 
f o 
+ 0* 
— 3 
Shadbush in bloom.... 
— 5 
_ 7 * 
— 8* 
— 6* 
... 
.... 
— 6* 
.... 
— 3 
.... 
f 2 
+ 1* 
.... 
Peach do .... 
— 7 
— 3 
— 1* 
— 5 
— 8 
— 6 
— 1 
— 3* 
— 6 
+ 1 
+ 9* 
— 0* 
.... 
Currants do .... 
— 9* 
— 4 
—11* 
— 7* 
— 9 
— 7* 
.... 
— 2 
— 4 
— 2* 
— 2 
4* 1 
+16* 
. . . . 
Plum do .... 
— 7 
— 4 
— 2* 
— 9 
— 5* 
—11* 
— 5 
— 5* 
— 6 
- 2f 
— 2* 
- 3j 
f o 
• • • • 
Cherry do .... 
—12 
— 4 
— 4* 
— 4 
— 11* 
—12* 
.... 
— 7 
— 9 
— 2 
— 5* 
— 3 
f 4 
.... 
.... 
Apple do .... 
—11 
- 8f 
— 2* 
— 5 
— 8* 
— 6 
—10 
— 2 
— 4 
— 2 
.... 
— 5 
f 2t 
+ 1* 
— 3* 
Lilac do .... 
— 0* 
— 4 
— 4* 
.... 
— 2* 
— 7* 
—10* 
— 1* 
— 5 
— 1* 
.... 
.... 
+ 0* 
.... 
Strawberries ripe. 
—13* 
- 9f 
.... 
— 0* 
— 4 
— 0* 
_ 2 
— 6 
... 
+ 1* 
+ 4* 
+ r 
+ 4* 
.... 
Having commenced .. . 
—13f 
— 3* 
— 3* 
— 6 
+ 3* 
— 2* 
— 4* 
Wheat harvest ditto .. . 
— 6 
— 8 
First killing frost. 
+ 9 
—lOf 
... 
f 1 
+13 
+ 5f 
f 4f 
+ 9 
+ 6f 
f Of 
+Ht 
f 4f 
+ 2 
f 3 
* The result of less than four years observation. 
t The result of observations for ten years or more. 
REMARKS ON THE FOREGOING TABLES. 
There is nothing very peculiar in regard to the mean temperature of this valley as a 
whole. At North-Salem and Goshen it is considerably lower than is due to the latitude 
and elevation of those places, and at Poughkeepsie considerably higher. The extreme 
summer heat is greater by several degrees than in any other section of the State; and this 
is true not only of the proper valley of the Hudson, but north of it as far as Lake Cham¬ 
plain. There is no other place in the State where the thermometer has risen so high on 
an average each year as at Montgomery, Poughkeepsie and Lansingburgh. The latter 
place is not less remarkable for extremes of cold in the winter. For the past fifteen years, 
