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Meteorological Observations at Storrs for. 
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GENERAL WEATHER AND CROP REVIEW. 
By W. M. Esten. 
Latitude 41 48, longitude 72° 16’, elevation 640 feet. 
The present report contains data taken from seventeen years 
of continuous records. This average of weather gives a fair 
representation of the climate of Storrs. 
Table 1 gives the observations taken for the year 1905. 
The mean temperature for the year was 46.8° which is remark- 
able for being the average for the past seventeen years. The 
mean temperature for the state was 47.4. There is about 5° 
difference in the mean temperature between the northern 
and southern boundaries of the state. The highest mean tem- 
perature, 49.7, was at Bridgeport. The coldest parts of the 
state are at the northwestern corner and in eastern Tolland 
County, with a mean temperature of 45.8. The highest rec- 
ord for the state was 98° at Bridgeport on July 18. The year 
* commenced with low temperatures for January and February, 
the former being 3.2° and the latter 5.8° below the average for 
each month for the past seventeen years. The other months 
had very small departures from the normal except December 
which was 3 above the average. 
The rainfall for the year was 36.14 inches, 10.83 below the 
average of 17 years and 4.62 inches below the average for the 
state. The variation of rainfall in the state is well shown in 
Table 2. In general the low areas receive less precipitation 
than high areas up to 4,000 feet, above this the amount of pre- 
cipitation decreases. The highest point where observations 
are taken is Cream Hill, which had the maximum rainfall for 
the year of 45.75 inches; North Grosvenor Dale and the least, 
35.75 inches. 
