Identifier: climatologicalda6566unit (find matches)
Title: Climatological data, New England
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: United States. Environmental Data Service United States. Weather Bureau
Subjects: Meteorology
Publisher: Asheville, N.C., U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adinistration, Environmental Data Service
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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CHATTANOOGA: 1953
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4 NEW ENGLAND - MARQl 1953 James K. McGuire, Section Director - Boston, Mass.WEATHER SUMMARY The month was marked by extremely heavy precipitation-average Section total of 7.98 inches was the secondheaviest Marcn precipitation of record (8.04 in March1936), and was the fifth highest of any month since NewEngland records began in 1888. Much-above-normal rain-fall during the last eight days produced serious floodconditions in Maine and New Hampshire. Considerable dam-age resulted in those states; flood losses elsewhere werecomparatively minor. Cloudiness was excessive and theamount of sunshine received was close to the record lowfor March generally throughout the Section. As in February, snowfall was well below average, due toprevailing mild temperatures during the weeks of heaviestprecipitation. Average March temperatures were a few de-grees above normal at most reporting stations. It was afortunate circumstance that snow cover was restrictedboth in area and depth, otherwise much more

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