. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. s m. MASSACHUSETTS July Begins Hot and Humid Following the extreme heat and humidity of the Fourth of [uly Holiday period, July 6th wought an all-day drizzle to the cranbeny area, which was ^ery helpful to the bogs, even though precipitation was slight. One weather man coining a word called the period "Drys- ; By early July the pre- cipitation deficiency was not as great as in the great drought Df last year but still about 3 inches short of normal, which coupled with the dryness of the past four years, made condi- :io
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. s m. MASSACHUSETTS July Begins Hot and Humid Following the extreme heat and humidity of the Fourth of [uly Holiday period, July 6th wought an all-day drizzle to the cranbeny area, which was ^ery helpful to the bogs, even though precipitation was slight. One weather man coining a word called the period "Drys- ; By early July the pre- cipitation deficiency was not as great as in the great drought Df last year but still about 3 inches short of normal, which coupled with the dryness of the past four years, made condi- :ions drier than desirable. Trouble Acute by July 13 July continued to get hotter and more humid until a point of crisis was reached on the 13th because of the heat and continued lack of rain. That day brought 92 degrees in the shelter at the State Bog and the rainfall for July to that date had been only one 12th of an inch. The excess of degrees in heat for the month had reached a total of 55. Growers who had sprinklers were keeping them In use, but for many, water sup- plies were beginning to get short. Of course, the sprinkling also was very costly. But it was a necessity. For the many acres which did not have sprink- lers the situation was naturally much worse. The Mass. blue- berry crop had been badly dam- aged by that time. The intense heat situation was reheved on the 15th, when cooler, Canadian air moved in- to New England and temper- atures and especially humidity dropped very appreciably. But lack of rain continued to take its toll. Temperatures were higher than normal, until the 19th, when there came a dras- tic change in temperature, but not much in the drought situ- ation. On the afternoon and night of that day New England was alerted to thunderstorms and possible tornados, as cool simimer polar air moved in. There were no tornadoes which are extremely rare in the six- state area, but there were thun- derstorms and showers. But few of these were in the cranberry area,
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