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Meteorological Observations at Storrs tor 
the Year 1906. 
GENERAL WEATHER AND CROP REVIEW. 
By W. M. ESTEN. 
Latitude 41 48, longitude 72° 16, elevation 640 feet. 
Observations have been taken for the past eighteen years. 
The data of each succeeding year added to the previous total 
data gives a more valuable and correct average of the climate 
in this locality. 
TEMPERATURE. 
The mean temperature for the year was 48.1", 1.1 above 
the average. The mean for the state was 49.1. The year 
commenced with very mild weather in January and February, 
the former 6.2° and the latter 3.2° above the average. This 
shows a marked contrast with the temperatures of these 
months in 1905, which were respectively 3.5° and 5.8° below 
the normal. March was a very cool month with instances of 
zero weather. The wind velocities. were more than usual, at- 
taining a rate of sixty miles an hour in the principal storms. 
April had a mean normal temperature, but marked depar- 
tures in extremes of temperature. The lowest maximum suni- 
mer temperature in the state was at Storrs with 89°. The 
annual range of temperature of 92° is the least in the state 
including Colchester. Cream Hill in the western part of the 
state and situated on the highest elevation had the lowest 
temperature of eleven below zero and the greatest range of 
103°. Storrs has the most’ equable temperature and is there- 
fore one of the most healthful localities in the state. The sum- 
mers are delightfully cool and the winters milder than most 
parts of the state. 
