The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1914-02-14
BEST b ! J T. WIN NJ / 1IEl;R !;
! FOR I |l!|'!| Y YEARS !|;:.A||| rs.
Present Pre- m Season y u, One Of ] Three 4 aliId.
est in history. Good Crops
Follow Open Winter . .5=
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4 The mildest winter since 1874 issSthe:
way the pioneers in this section :charae-
terize the present weather conditions
and their contention lis borne out BY.
Orris w. Roberts, section director al
Bismarck of the climatolog ical sefvice
Of the weather bureau. United statss
department Of agriculture. ~, !, s,5*;;..
Mr. Roberts has kindly compiled dsfor
the3newspapers some data concerning
former winter seasons. In a.conmuni.<
cation he says: Il find there havs been
three exceptionally open Is winters:
1S77-7S, 1SeO-9l and 19i3-14.
.s..It is significant fact that each
year following these open winters
proved TO be exceptionally gooti crop
years and years with consid iderably more
than the usual precipitation. Let us
hope that this will be the conditt ion also
during the present year. 81 = ,ss1sss!zS s.:s5ssS
From the standpoint Of @aperagea
the winter of 1S9O-1Sel was the smniltlest,,
the mean temperatures being as fol-
lows: November $40; December 24.e g
and January 1873 degrees. or al average
for the three months of 2S. s degrees.
The averages during the winter of 1918
IA for the three months were 35.2 3. 24.6
and 1870 or an average of 300 The
next highest average. was in 1877-78;;
when for the three months in question
2S.8. 2e.4 and 1870 degrees were re-
corded, Or an average Of 25.4 desrees.
During November and December
1890, and January 1891, the precipita-
tion was 9. .iA,.s0. 22sand .Q5. total
bur .39 inch. During the present @
winter the precipitation was 0.lo. O.2s
and OPS, a total Of :69 inch. During
the winter of 1877-7S the amounts were
Gao, 0.69 and trace or total of 1909
inches. st :. i s, ~ =. -
The wind movement during the
present winter was the least, the aver
age velocities for the three months
being 7.6, go and ~. S miles. During
the winter Of 1se0-91 they were 90,
9. a and 1912 and during 1S77-1S7S they
were 1917. 7.3 and 8. From this
we find the average hourly wind move-
ment during the present winter was
f8.2 miles per hour, while for the whit
erss of 1877-1S78 and 189O-1891 the
average was the same for each, S.o
miles. .==a
II may be due to the low wind
Emovement or because conditions are
fresher in their minds, but most of the
.old timers agree that the present
winter is the mildest Of record since
1874 when this station was established.
The rainfall saof 1878 was 20. %, inches,
or 2.59 above the normal IS;
Very respecd fully, Orris W. Roberts,:
section director. ss3-sss s E. &. !. # f IS : 1
The foregoing fingures do not deal
with the mild winter in Western North
Dakota for 19O7-8. The temperature fol
| November of that season was 81. OS: for
December, 23.O5; Tor January 21.O1 an
average temperature of 22.08 degrees.
The precipitation for 1907. previous
TO the mild winter, was 1907 inches.
and Tor the succeeding year l9. 50
inches. The crops were good in 1908.
Another item Of interest to our readers
for the present year is the fact that the
temperature in Stark county for Janu-
ary averaaed 4 degrees warmer than al
Bismarck for the same period. B
These figures were compiled by Supt.
-. Waldron, government weather
burean observer at the Dickinson ex:
pertinent station.