The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-14
WEATHER IN MAY
STATEMENTS COMPILED BY ALA
 BAMA SECTION DIRECTOR.
Temperatures During Month Averaged Cooler Than for same Month of Year Prevfous-Interest-
 ing Data.

| Section Director F. P Chaffee yes I terday issued the following review of weather conditions during May as com piled by the Alabama section elimato- logical service of the Weather Bureau: The month, as whole. was consid- | erably cooler than May, 1905, and the | temperature means over the entire State fell somewhat below the normal. l The comparatively low temperature av- | erage' resulted, not so much from un- | usual or prolonged periods of cold as | from the low night readings recorded during the first decade and the mod crate maxima which occurred during | the periods of general rains.
 High day temperatures accompanied | the clear weather of the first two days, when maximum readings of 90 degrees 1 or higher occurred at twelve stations l in the northern and at eighteen sta- tions in the southern district. Ateight stations, situated in middle and north- ! eastern counties. the monthly maxi mum temperature occurred on the 1st. though at most of these places equally high readings occurred On other dates also.
 Cooler weather prevailed during the
 remainder of the first decade. Owing to the prevalence of cloudy and rainy weather temperature extremes were moderate until the morning of the 7th, when the only well-defined cool pe-
 riod of the month began. On this date.
 minimum temperatures of 45 degrees or
 lower occurred at fourteen stations of the northern district, and of 50 degrees or lower at seventeen stations in south ern and south-central counties. At several stations the minimum temper ature on the morning of the 7th was as low as any which occurred during the month. On the mornings of the sth to the 10th. light frost was quite general In northern and some central counties. On the morning of the 10th. minimum readings of 35 degrees or lower occurred at ten stations in the northern district, the lowest being 31 degrees, at Valley Head, DeKalb County. Heavy to killing frosts oc- cured in several of the northern counties, minimum temperatures of 45 degrees or lower were recorded oyer most of the southern half of the State, and light frosts occurred as far south as the Gulf counties.
 The temperature rose gradually du- ring the following seven days, but no unusual extremes occurred until the 18th. On this date. and during the three days which followed, day tenn peratures were unseasonably high, maximum readings of 90 degrees or | higher being quite general over the | 60tfre SI&IG. anu Ol oo oCEbCNS or higher were recorded at eleven sta I tions situated in different parts of the State. At Flomaton. Escambia Coun- l ty maximum readings of 97 degrees occurred on the 18th, 18th and 21st The 18th was generally the warmest day of the month.
 Day temperatures continued moder- ately high from the goth to 23rd, after which the general rains which pre- vailed. gave comparatively cool weath-
 CT until the 29th. The 3oth and 31si
 we're warm, the magimum temperatures on the former date being as high, al | a few places, as were recorded during | the entire month.
 The mean temperature for the entire State, determined from the records of | forty-nine stations, was 69.7 degrees or 2.1 degrees below the normal, and I45 degrees lower than for May, 1905 The mean for the northern district was 1 6s5 degrees, or 19 degrees below the normal The mean for the southern | district was 709 degrees, or 2.3 de- | grees below the normal The highest \ local monthly mean was 72.9 degrees al II Ozark in the southeastern part of the |, State The highest temperature re II corded was 97 degrees, at Flomaton, or II the southern border of the State, or H the 18th 18th and 21st. The lowest 1 local monthly mean was 65.S degrees al Valley Head in the northeastern part 1 of the State The lowest temperature | recorded, 31 degrees, also occurred al | Valley Head on the 10th. The monthly range for the entire State was 66 de | erees The greatest local monthly | range was 6l degrees at Hamilton anC at lock No. 4; the least was S7 degrees l at Spring Hill. The greatest daily range was 43 degrees. at Florence or the 21st and at Oneonto on the loth.
 Precipitation.
 The rainfall for the month was some 1 what in excess of the normal, thougf somewhat less than fjr May, 1905. Tn' excess was general, though much great or throurhout the southern and middle lcounties than in the northern portlot | of +nc state The middle and midcie
 western porticns of the State recelvef
 the greatest monthly amounts. and tn r1irfa1l was lightcst in the extrem' lnortheru portion and extreme southern
 counties. .
 | Dr.; weather prevailed during the frs
 two days This was followed hy a pc
 riod oS quite general rains which ex
 tended through the 7th and included tn lnntire State. On almost every day, iron
 the 3rd 10 the 7th. locally heavy to ex
 cessive amount, fell at different sta
 tions scattered over northern. mlddl
 and south-central counties. Amounts
 of l50 inches or more Tn twenty-tou
 | hours fell on one or more of thes
 dates at three stations in the northern
 and at twenty-s six stations in the south
 ern district. Some hail fell in easterI !. and east-central counties on the 4tl .