. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. SERVINSTHI WISCONSIN GROWERS brought great destruction and suffering throughout the area. Electrical systems were knocked out for as long as two weeks in some rural areas and thousands of homes were without heat and light for long periods. The snowfall which occurred over a 48-hour period amounted to 16 inches in depth. This was the heaviest snow which has oc- curred since weather records were begun at the Laboratory thirty years ago. It was an abnormally heavy snow mixed with rain and this accounted for the unusual damage which re
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. SERVINSTHI WISCONSIN GROWERS brought great destruction and suffering throughout the area. Electrical systems were knocked out for as long as two weeks in some rural areas and thousands of homes were without heat and light for long periods. The snowfall which occurred over a 48-hour period amounted to 16 inches in depth. This was the heaviest snow which has oc- curred since weather records were begun at the Laboratory thirty years ago. It was an abnormally heavy snow mixed with rain and this accounted for the unusual damage which resulted from it. The piiecipitation converted to rainfall was inches. If this had been the usual dry snow which has the equivalent of one inch of rain for every ten inches of snow, this snowrfall would have amounted to 40 inches! Heaviest March Precipitation We have been experiencing a very wet as well as cold spring. During March there was a total of inches of presipitation. This is the highest rainfall ever recorded for this month at the Laboratory and is about 3 inches more than normal. For the first three months of 1958 we have totalled inches of rainfall, about inches above normal for this period, which amounts to about 40 percent of the normal total annual rainfall. Temperatures Low The tempei'ature has been quite a bit below normal for each of the first three months of the year. March averaged °, about 3 de- grees colder than normal. The three-month period averaged °, degi'ees colder than nor- mal. Late Season The season appears to be two to three weeks later in the Pem- berton area. Last year at this time it was two weeks late and progress of plants and trees at present is even slower than it was last year. LATE MASSACHUSETTS Late Massachusetts April to the 17th was running colder than normal and much wetter. Precipitation to then had been a whopping inches with the noiTnal for entire month This follows a March with slight- l
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