. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. weather watch MASSACHUSETTS May was above normal for precipitation, below normal for sunshine and very near normal for temperature. Temperature averaged just degree a day below normal. Maximum temperature was 80°F on the 11th and minimum was 32°F on the 9th. Warmer than average days were the Ist, 11th, 22nd, 24th, 25th and 27th. Cooler than average periods were the 2nd through 6th, 8th-9th, 12th, 19th and 29th. Rainfall totalled inches, which is about VA inches above normal. This is the first above normal month since Octob
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. weather watch MASSACHUSETTS May was above normal for precipitation, below normal for sunshine and very near normal for temperature. Temperature averaged just degree a day below normal. Maximum temperature was 80°F on the 11th and minimum was 32°F on the 9th. Warmer than average days were the Ist, 11th, 22nd, 24th, 25th and 27th. Cooler than average periods were the 2nd through 6th, 8th-9th, 12th, 19th and 29th. Rainfall totalled inches, which is about VA inches above normal. This is the first above normal month since October and only the second since August. It was the largest May total since 1979. There were 12 days with measurable rain, with inches on the 2nd and 3rd as the greatest storm. We are about 8 inches below normal and over 11 inches behind 1984. Sunshine was the least for May since 1948. FROST We have had a total of 12 frost warnings on 10 days through May. There was an extremely dangerous frost on the evening of May 29th, with the general range of temperatures from 19 to 22 degrees; there were a few bogs in the 14 to 18 degree range and some in the mid to high 20*8. These are very low bog temperatures for this late in the spring and, in the Wareham-Carver area, sprinklers were running before or shortly after sunset when many bogs were already down to 30 degrees. Some injury where growers were slow to get started and even injury on the outer parts of bogs where water was dehvered in smaller quantities due to low pressure or old, poorly designed systems. Too early to estimate losses yet, but, withO' ^ our present system of sprinklers, th >" would have equalled or surpassed tt '*' devastating frost of May 30, 196 " To further complicate the situatioi 1* there is injury from a very cold, dry nigl ^ in mid-April when some bogs were dow *< to 10°. » FINAL KEEPING QUALITY '' FORECAST ' Weather data to June Ist gives us" CORP. ^ CRANBERRIES BOUGHT & SOLD Cr
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