. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. r VW V V V NEW JERSEY The mild, wet trend of weather of the last quarter of 1972 con- tinued through the first month of 1973. For the fourth consecutive month rainfall was above normal. The total rain in January was inches, which is inches above normal. Since October there has been a total of inches of rain. This is thirteen inches above normal for the four-month period. The temperature, for the second consecutive month, was above nor- . mal, averaging , which is only one degree above normal for the month. Howev
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. r VW V V V NEW JERSEY The mild, wet trend of weather of the last quarter of 1972 con- tinued through the first month of 1973. For the fourth consecutive month rainfall was above normal. The total rain in January was inches, which is inches above normal. Since October there has been a total of inches of rain. This is thirteen inches above normal for the four-month period. The temperature, for the second consecutive month, was above nor- . mal, averaging , which is only one degree above normal for the month. However, several aknost balmy days occurred, with four days reaching the fifty-degree range and four going into the sixties. Extremes in temperature ranged from 65 degrees on January 18th to 9 degrees on the 11th. No snow has fallen so far this winter. This is the first time in the forty-three year weather-recording history at the New Lisbon Weather Station that some snow has not fallen in December and January. There have been five previous win- ters in which some snow fell in December but none in January. These were 1931, 1933, 1934, 1937, and 1962. Those expecting a continuation of the mild winter with Uttle snow for the rest of the period would find little justification in the records. It is interesting to note that in the five previous years of snowless Janu- aries the winter in regard to tem- perature was about normal in one of the years (1931), much above normal in two (1933 and 1937) and much below normal in two (1934 and 1962). In three of the five years the total snow for the entire winter was above normal. Following the snowless January of 1934 the most severe winter month ever occurred at New Lisbon. In February 1934, the temperature averaged only 18 degrees, which is below normal and by far the coldest month ever recorded. The all-time low temperature of 17 de- grees below zero was experienced on February 9th of that year and there were seven other days with below-
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