The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-05-08
HARDNESS OF SPRING.
In the Montana Region Demonstrated
by the Weather Sharps.

III A'C WONtdld nCSiOH demonstrated
by the Weather Sharps
The mean temperature for the state
was slightly below the seasonal aver
age. In the greater part of Yellow
stone and Rosebud counties and in
the valleys on the west side of the
main divide the weather was rather
warm. and the mean temperature
was slightly above the normal. but
periods of cold weather in other parts
of the state. especially in Chouteau,
Valley and Dawson countes--caused
a deficiency in the state mean. In
the eastern counties, the warmest
weather of the month prevailed on
the 30th and 31st and from the 2Sth
to the 30th in the western part of the
state. The coolest weather occurred
Ill The eastern part Of the state from
the 18th to Goth when thermometer
readings considerably below zero
We're recorded; the western part of
the state was also affected by this
wave of cold weather, but throughout
counties the lowest thermometer
readings were reached from the 4th
to 9Th. The following mean temper
atures for March, 1908. are the low
est that have occurred at the sta
tons indicated during any March
since beginning of records: Dillon,
1872 degrees; Livingston, % degrees;
Twin Bridges, 29.4.
The precipitation was light in Val
ley and Dawson counties, along the
southern boundary of the state as far
west as Park county, and in Granite
other portions of the state it was
fairly copous. There were no we'll
defined or general periods of rainy
or snowy weather. but the greater
part of the precipitation, which was
mostly in the form of moist snow. fell
records were broken at the following
stations; the amount placed oppo-
site the respective stations repre-
sents the March. 1908 fall: Greatest
March record. Boulder, .9S inch; Dill
Ion. 1,23 inch; Troy, $40 inches;
Yale, 223 inches. Lowest March
record. Agricultural college, Boze-
man. So Columbia Falls, .27 inch;
Lewiston. .55 inch; Livingston, ,O1
inch; Red Lodge, .43 inch.
The following data, compiled for
the state at large and for the two di-
visions, present in a more graphic
| maner the important climatic feat
| ures:
Barometer-Mean pressure, 30,06
| inches; highest observed. 1864
| inches. at Havre. on the 9th and
| 18th; lowest observed, 1850 inches,
at Havre, on the 31st range for the
state, LA inches.
| Temperature-The mean was q
degrees, or 1.6 below the normal. BY
divisions the mean temperatures were
as follows: Eastern division, 23.9 de-
grees, or "a degrees below the nor
NAL; western division, 1874 degrees,
or 13 below the normal. The high
est monthly mean was 1865 degrees,
at Missoula; lowest monthly mean,
1876 degrees at Chinook. The highest
temperature recorded was 20 degrees,
at Miles City on the Goth; and Troy
on the oath; lowest temperature re-
corded is degrees, at CulbertsOn,
on the Goth. The greatest daily range
was SO degrees, at Fort Logan, on
the 10Th.
Precipitation-The average was
95 inch, or 90 below the normal
The averages by divisions were as
follows: Eastern division, 40 inch,
or 81 inch below the normal; west
ern division, III inch, or OF inch be-
low the normal. The greatest monthly
amount was 6.S5 inches, at Summit
Essex p. o., and the least 1.01
at Livingston. The greatest amount
in any "a consecutive hours was $50
inches, at Summit, on the 18th. Aver
age number of days with OF inch or
more precipitation. 5.
Wind and weather-The prevail
ing direction of the wind was south
west; the highest velocity reported
was 80 miles per hour, from the
southwest, at Havre, on the 31st.
Average number of clear days, 10;
partly cloudy. 8; cloudy, 10.