Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-01-04
WEATHER FOR PAST YEAR.
LAWS OF AVERAGES WERE EN-
TIRELY DISREGARDED.
The Weather For The Whole Twelve
Months Was Most Disagree
abIe-The Rainfall
In August.

Whatever else may be said of the
weather of 1906 il cannot be said that
il was lacking in variety. Early in
the year a surprising disregard for the
laws of averages was shown, Janu-
airy being two degrees warmer than
March, with a mean temperature IN
this city of 40 degrees.
The warm weather elsewhere, espec-
tally in New England, deferred the
harvesting of the usual ice crop until
February. Locally ice did not form
until February, and the crop then
was not mucn over three inches in
thickness. March was cold and
stormy, while April was an uneventful
month. May brought much stormy
weather to the north Pacific coast
states and frosts and freezing temPera-
lures to the Ohio valley and the Mid
die Atlantic states.
The summer in eastern districts was
cool and rainy; in this city heavy
rains and damp weather were espec-
tally in evidence during August.
Heavy rains in July and August were
also a feature of the weather in New
Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and To
less extent in Wyoming. While July
and August are the rainy months of
the year in the extreme southwest, the
fall during the two months i'll 1906
was unprecedented at many places in
New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona.
September was warm, dry month
i'm eastern districts, but during the
closing days of the month torrential
rains fell in the middle and lower
portions of the Mississippi valley. a
severe tropical storm swept inland
from the Gulf of Mexico on Septem-
ber %, causing great loss of life and
property at Pensacola, Mobile and
other lesser gulf towns.
The month of October, while un-
eventful in most of the country,
brought period of about five days OF
stormy weather in Colorado and Wyo-
ming. Snow fell in eastern Wyoming
and eastern Colorado to a depth of
nearly two feet, and in northeastern
New Mexico to a depth of six to
thirty six inches. With the mountains
of eastern Colorado as n center the
snow storm extended over southern
Dakota, western Nebraska to Kansas,
the Texas Panhandle and portions of
Arizona and Utah. A tropical hurri-
cane struck the southeastern Florida
coast on the 18th and passed off to
sea after causing the loss of several
hundred lives and much property.
In November heavy and continued
rains in Western Washington caused
floods in the rivers of that region,
which damaged railroads and other
property, and resulted in an aggregate
loss of 81, 900, 600. In the same month
heavy snow fell in western Texas and
southeastern New Mexico, which,
combined with the low temperatures,
caused known loss of five lives and
of large numbers Of sheep and goats.
December was characterized by rapid
ly alterations from cold to warm,
and vice versa, and generally unset
tied weather. The local features of
greatest interest were the high tenn
peratures of January, when maxi
mum of IL degrees was registered and
the heavy rains of the summer months
eliminating in fall of 14.36 inches
during August, the greatest monty
precipitation ever recorded.
The highest temperature during the
year was 90 degrees, on June 30; the
lowest, degrees, on February 9.