The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-04-10

The following is brief sketch of
the weather as il occurred each day
during the month of March. 1856:
March |, Clear and windy all
day; ground covered with a light
snow, but ali taken off during the
day by the sun; freezing very hard
at night.
2, Clear. and very windy and cold
all day.
3, Clear, warm and windy during
day until evening; then grew cloudy.
4, Clear and warm all day and
night; except evening grows cloudy.
), Clear and frosty during morn
ing; getting cloudy and warm dur
ing balance of day.
8, Clear all day and night, there
being heavy frost, but getting warm
and thawing.
Z, Clear and warm all day; grew
cloudy and cool at night and falling
a snow of u inches.
s, Cloudy and warm, melting
greater part of snow by III A. NJ. /;
commenced showing at noon, first
falling in large flakes then in small
ones until evening, then getting
cooler and windy; a heavy snow
storm at evening; clear during
night.
9, Cloudy and warm until evening;
melting greater part of snow; grew
cool at night and showed ] inch.
10, Cloudy and cold all day, but
warm enough to melt nearly all the
snow, and also showing frequently
all the forenoon; grew colder at even
ing.
IL, Clear and cool during morn
ing; grew warm and pleasant in the
evening; rained during night.
IL, Warm and cloudy; raincd
nearly all day and night; grew cold
er during night and showed.
Is, Cloudy, and showing frequent
ly all day; nearly all frost melted at
3 r. NJ; a heavy snow fell-about an
inch in twenty minutes; cold at
night and freezing very hard.
IA, Clear during all day and
night; grew warm and got very
muddy.
Is, Clear greater part of day, but
cloudy at frequent intervals; grew
cloudy and rained during night, but
remained warm.
Is, Clear and warm all day; roads
drying very fast; heavy frost at
night and freezing very hard.
II, Same as day previous.
Is, Clear and warm during great
er part of day, but grew cloudy
and rained at frequent intervals !;
rained at night.
10, Cloudy greater part of the
day and night; thermometer at
summer heat.
20, Cloudy and warm all day and
night.
81, Clear and cool during morn
ing until 8 A. NJ. then grows cloudy
and rains before noon afternoon and
night heavy storms of snow and
rain mingled together
%, Heavy storms of snow during
greater part of day, but melting
as fast as it fell. J inch of snow
fell during night.
%. Showed frequently all the fore
noon; clear afternoon and night; all
the snow melted and freezing very
hard at night.
"a, Clear and windy nearly all
day, although sun shines warm;
grew cloudy at evening.
25, Cloudy and windy all day,
but very warm and raining during
night.
26, Cloudy all day and night;
rained in the morning and in the
night; grows cooler at night.
n. Cloudy all day; commenced
raining in the morning and changed
to snow at 10 A. M; showed remain
der of the day, but melted nearly as
fast as it fell; about inch of snow
in the evening; showed again during
the night; water rose considerably
in the streams.
%, Cloudy until noon; clear, windy
and cool during afternoon and night.
20, Cloudy and warm; rained
nearly all day and night; water re-
mains high.
30, Cloudy and warm; rained fire.
quently during day and night; roads
extremely muddy.
81, Cloudy all day; rained very
hard. until 10 A. NJ; ceased until 3 Z
NJ, and then rained until late in the
evening; grew windy and cooler and
showed during night; streams rose
very high by noon, and then began
to subside.
w. j. +.