Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-31
MAINE WEATHER IN 1906,
How the Government Service Does
Business For Us.

Belfast Me-, January 23.-(Special.)
The annual summary. of the New
England Weather Reports is just
issued from the U. S. Weather Bureau
Office in Boston by J. w. Smith, District
Forecaster and Section Director. The
report shows the annual mean tenn
perature Of Maine as 43 degrees against
4G5 for the entire New England
district. Strangely the highest tenn
perature recorded in New England for
the year was in one of the most
northerly towns of the district, Mill
nocket, Maine, 102 degrees on August
10, although the highest annual mean
was at Bridgeport, CT, SIS degrees.
Northern Maine also has the highest
record in three other respects; greatest
local annual range for New England,
100 degrees at Van Buren,; greatest
local daily range, 65 degrees. at Van
Buren,, March %; and greatest monthly
rainfall, at Patten. 10.1 inches in
October The annual rainfall of Maine
was 42.76 inches, against 42.S3 inches
for New England. The average num-
Der of days with .01 inch or more was
113 for the district. Gardiner, Me-, had
49O inches more of rainfall than the
average at that place for IA years, the
total being Ass inches. The last
killing frosts in the spring varied from
April "a in Portland and PASSPORT to
June Il in Pennington, Hou!ton, Madi-
son, Oquossoc, Patten and Van Buren,.
The earliest killing frost in the fall was
reported from Patten September "a,
and the latest from Eastport November
Is.
The Weather Bureau has 153 stations
in New England, of which &c are in
Maine. The stations at Portland and
Eastport arc maintained by the L. S.
Department of Agriculture, Weather
Bureau, with salaried officials. Other
stations are as follows: Bar Harbor,
William Miller; Chesuncook. L. NJ.
Barnes; Cornish. T. H. West; Dan
forth, V. B. Follett; Debsconeag, c. c.
Garland; Fairfield, Z. +. Parker; Far
mington, Normal school; Fort Fairfield,
F. S. Peterson: Gardiner, S. d. Soule;
Grant Farm, ]. L. McCord; Greenville.
Shaw Lumber Co; Houiton, =. s. A. r.
R.; Lewiston, Union Water Power Co..
Madison, J. III. Eoughton; Mayfield. ".
p. Hall; Millinocket, H. S. Ferguson;
North Bridgton, G. Z. Chadbourne;
Oquossoc. Rangeley) Arthur Briggs;
Orono, Experiment station; Patten, B.
& A. r. r.: Rumford Falls, c. a.
Mixer; The Forks. w. w. Young; Van
Buren,, 3. {; A. r. r.: Winslow, Hol-
lingswOrth Sc Whitney Co.
Weather forecasts are distributed by
rranked postal cards daily from the
Weather Bureau in Portland ard by the
lpcstmasters at Auburn. Augusta, BAN
gor. Belfast. Bridgtor, Eastport, Farm
ington. Houlton. North Jay. Rumford
Falls, Sanford, Searsport and Stockton
Springs. The postmasters receive the
forecasts every morning by telegraph, in
season to send out on the country mails
and r. F. d. routes.
Storm warnings are displayed at
Bangor by c. NJ. Stewart; Boothbay
lHarbor, c. II. McCobb PASSPORT, Z. S.
Weather Bureau; Marshalls Point
Light, a. P. Skinner; Portland, U. S.
Weather Bureau; West Quoddy light,
G.. NJ. Guptill; White Head light, Ida r..
Shea. Other display stations are at the
post Offices in Augusta, Runford Falls.
Searsport and Stockton Springs; the
mayors office in Waterville; and by w.
c. Mallett. Pennington. D. F. Thomp-
son, Lewiston, and L. L. Trafton, Lime
stone.
JOHN S. FERNALD.