Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-06
APRILs yAGARIEs.
Liberal Education for Any Govern,
 ment Weather Man.

ment Weather Man.
 "Vagaries of 8 New England Spring" would be an appropriate and truly de- scriptive title to the weather report is- sued for the month just past by Volun- tary Observer William Jennings. Al month in Bridgeport during what isl generally termed spring, would provel liberal education to any weather man; and philosophers, naturalists and various other lovers of nature would be l surprised and delighted at the ability
 of the eccentric in charge of the 1 weather barrels who deals out buckets l full of mixtures or rain, sunshine, cold l quence or sense.
 , It has come to be the belief of many i who have pondered deply upon the l subject, that Bridgeport, as far as i weather is concerned, is most unfor- ! tunately situated. and, as in many oth- /; CT and more material things, this city l Is being served with snag ends and waste bits which are rejected by more
 aristocratic communities. There can , be but little doubt that the Park City
 is being served with weather taken dl- i rectly from the waste barrel. A glance 1 at that which is distributed to sur-
 rounding places, and a comparison with the weather which this city gets will ! convince any one.
 Out West a raging blizzard has been
 dealt out. Along ill the Middle Atlan-
 tic states they have reached a period
 of drizzles and half-hearted rains. Up
 in New York state the mercury is fool
 ing around the freezing point Down 1 toward the inland south they are en-
 toying a period of delightfully."- pleasant
 warmth and sunshine. What unused
 scraps of all the weathers distributed
 throughout the country are left over, have undoubtedly been mixed together
 and poured over Bridgeport. The
 weather report for April is ample proof.
 On April there was snoWstorm
 It was not heavy, but there was plenty
 of snow to be seen without looking
 very hard for it. Then for the next
 two days, the 9th and6th, after March had tempted the tree buds to burst and the violets to bloom, there was a kill l ing frost. After that things got warm
 CT, and on the 9th a rain which was l heavy enough to drawn fish, was de- 1 livered to the city. On that day 1.14 inches of rain fell in 24 hours, which l was the greatest rainfall during the
 month. There was then some more
 warm weather, up to the 18th, 18th
 and 2Oth, when three more heavy l frosts were recorded. Finally to end | up, on the 18th the mercury took
 leap. into the air, and rose 40 degrees,
 and on the following day the warmest l weather of the month was indicated,
 a maximum of S6, the warmest day in any April since 1896, when S9.5 de- | grees was recorded for April 1S
 , That is just little resume of what
 the weather man has done for the 4 spring poets in this vicinity. More de- tail can be furnished That the past .l has been a freak month is clearly in- dicated, and a glance at the records of | a year ago tend to confirm it. The
 maximum temperature of April, 1902,
 was reached on the 22d, when S2 de-
 grees was recorded. The lowest point
 touched upon in that April was 30 de
 grees on the 4th. Last month the low
  perature fell to 25 degrees, early in the morning of the 9th. Although the April of 1902 was neither so warm nor so cold as last month, the mean tenn perature was 94.4 degrees, while that ] of the april just past was 50 degrees. , The mean temperature for all the , Aprils for the past 313 years is 46 de- grees
 The greatest rainfall in 24 hours a } year ago was on the Sth, when 1.5C inches of rain fell. and the total pre- $ cipitation was 3S5 inches. Last month l the total fall for the 30 days was 352 inches In one respect both last month $ and the same period q year ago are
 alike, for during each of the months
 there was 10 days during which .01 ol
 more of rain fell April, 1902, is ahead
 of last month In another respect, too for there was seven frosts year ago , continuing right through the month and recorded of April f. IA, 15, 16, IT IS and 2S Also there was q solitary
 thunder shower a year ago, on Apri 26.
 The record of the sky has been fairly good, however, in spite of the variety
 of temperatures which has put pre- 7 mium on strong constitutions and bull ed the market for cough medicines . There was last month 13 perfectly , clear days, there was 10 partly cloudy and only seven cloudy. A year agt there were 12 clear days, four partly cloudy and eight cloudy. The prevail ing wind direction of the past Apri
 was northwest. while that of April s 1902, was south.-Bridgeport Stan dard.