The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-04-01
WINTER REVEALED As
4 MERE SUPERSTITION

February $, lSl9-"Farmers OF
Long Island have ploughed many hun
dred acres Of ground. - Boston Ga
zette.
Newspaper Comment, Feb. 5, 1925
"While the roses Of June are blooming
in the gardens, and the fruits Of au-
tumn are scattered on the lap Of win
ter New England has been capricious
beyond the memory Of former years,
The snownakes have fallen so few and
and far between as scarcely 10 give
opportunity for enjoying the music Of
the sleighbells. '.-Iommcnt quoted
from American Traveller Of Boston.
r. T. Payne states in his record Of
the winter Of 1928 that the Hudson
River was not closed by ice for the
winter.
(From American Traveler) Jan. %,
1888, Boston-No snow since the 18th
of December. Crocuses and peonies
have sprung up; honeysuckles and
liacs throwing out their leaves and
wild violets in bloom.
1857-5S-Mean, 80, December mean,
SO; January, 81; February, &C. De-
cember--No frost in the ground dur
ing the month. With the exception of
fall of three inches on the Goth,
which soon disappeared, there was no
snow. January-The ground, except
for three or four days during the
month free from frost. So mild was
the weather that several kinds Of wild
flowers were in bloom. The dust at
times was annoying.
The Green Fields of Winter, 1858
Newspaper Comment, Jan. %, 1858
Thus far we have had the warmest
and most pleasant winter weather
within the memory Of man. The fields
are green; the cattle browse in the
meadows, the frogs croak in the
swamps, the farmers plough in the
fields-it has been May, no common
December and January weather. =
Scientific American. February-"The
low mean of this month"; 26) checked
the winter from being a record-break-
err The cold of the period, 18th to
18th, was so severe as to nearly cover
Boston Harbor with ice"
Winter of -70-Mean tempera-
ture, 33. December, 33; January, SO;
February, 90. December-The mean
temperature of the first half of the
month was 2S, the coolest for nearly
SO years. The latter half, however,
had a mean Of 38, so very warm that
only December, 1929, approached it.
After the 18th there were only four
frosty mornings. During the latter
part of the month there was no frost
in the ground; grass was quite green;
volets we're in bloom and there was
ploughing going on in places out Of
town. January-A month so very
warm that every quarter was above
the average. Feb. 1S-So unusually
mild in Boston that the grass contin-
ued green, and violets and pansies in
bloom. The winter of 1S6970 will be
known as one when the grass was
green in the State House yard when
the Legislature opened. February
A rather disagrecable month. On the
oath a small quantity of ice, about sew
en- inches thick, was cut on one Of our
nearby ponds; also again on the 9th,
but no thicker On the 25th ice was
cut from Walden Pond Concord,
Mass, eleven inches in thickness, and
from other ponds ice ten to twelve
inches thick was gatherd. On March
4th cutting on the ponds near Boston
was resumed, and ice of nine-inch
thickness was the most to be OBJ
tanned.
1879-1SS0-Mean Of winter, 33. De-
cember, 80; January, 80; February,
80. Dec. 31--Eight inches Of snow
covered the ground. This was gone by
Jan. a. January was very warm
month, with mean eight degrees
above normal. Contractors in Phila-
delphia and Baltimore are offering
high prices for the ice cut in 1879, as
it is pretty sure no such ice will be
cut this season. boston Transcript.
Ice Famines of the COS
Winter Of 1889 90-The second win
ter in 1913 years with the high mean
of "a. December-G2 on the 9th, 65
on the 25th. The mild Christmas with
a maximum temperature Of 60 and
minimum of 80 was almost unprece-
dented. No snow on the ground in
Boston at the end Of the month, and
none in sight around Boston. January
"A month with a mean five degrees
above normal. No ice up TO Jan. 81.
February--A month, like January,
with mean five degrees above normal.
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