Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-04-08
The Weather Of March. 1890.

The New England Branch of the U. S.
Signal Service Las published the following
summary and review of the weather
throughout New England for the month Of
March:
The weather of March, as determined by
the observations reported to the New Eng
land Meteorological Society, was very wet
as compared with the average of March
records Of previous years. while the tenn
perature wa, slightly below the )rmsl in
the northern and above in the southern
sections 1t was decidedly the most win
try of the current season. The month
opened wi h a cold spell that lasted ill the
10th. with snow on the ground from the
storms of the "a and 9Th. and these with
the storms of the 18th, l9,h and % !, gave
us more snow than had fallen previously
during the winter The storms of the 9Th and
l9th came on unt xpectedly the first running
u the coast from Carolina, the second com
ing across the country from Texas a,
an unusually rapid rate; both passing
close south ast of New Eng and and like
the storms of the "a and 22l. giving us
northeast gales. That of the l9th was in
some respects the most severe storm of the
winter Besides these snow storms, there
were the rain storms, sometimes with sror
in the north on the 5. IL. IA, 21. 90. 26,
and % and all of these storms but the last
passed north of New England. The storm
of the 28th gave rain and snow with chilling
northeast winds, VT ich was disagreeable
enough, but not 80 dangerous as the warmer
wind on the southern side of the same storm
in which the destructive t0rnadoes of Ken
tucky occurred on the 27th.
There were two strong and sudden changes
of temperature. The most normal diurnal
variations of temperature were in the clear
cold spell on the 1th. oih and 9Th Marked
rise of temperature was recorded on the
4th, 10th, l2th, 20th, and 25;b, accompanied
in each case with the cl0u1i1g over OF a
clear sky and souiherly turn to the wind
preparatory to wet weather. The only
abrupt fall of temperature was ab1u, noon
OF the 2Gth, when southerly gave way to
westerly winds but on the ls,, "a, 5tb, 9Th,
18th l4tb 18th, 18th, l9.h, there we're ex
smples of practically continuous, though
slow, fall of the temperature from one
night through the day to the next night. 80
characteristic of the control exerted on our
winter tempera ures by the storm winds
rath-r than by the direct rays of the sun.
Two thunder storms passed over the
southern section, one on the evening of the
22i and the other the afternoon of the 25th.
accompanied in ea7h case by lightning and
heavy rainfall for short time. The most
violent earthquake that has been experi
enced in that section for years, occurred
in central New Hampshire on the evenir &
of the 2sth shortly after ten o'clock. The r
were two shocks following each other in
rapid succession, and moving from west to
east II was described as being violent
enough to give the impression thst heavy
e1 1plosion had occurred in the vicinity. The
close of the month finds the snos near >
gone from The ground in the southern part
of the district, and occasional warm. fair
weather days together with the advent OF
many varieties of birds, true hsrbingers OF
spring, foretells the rapid opening of OUT
| spring season.