. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. IN NEW JERSEY Ridniest year in SO year Itistory By PHILIP E. MARUCCI Cranberry, Blueberry Specialist Chatsworth, The weather at Pemberton, , in 1979 could be described as excessively rainy and cool. Precipitation was above normal in 10 months (in all except April and December). Temperature was below normal for the seven months from April through October, except for August, which was only degrees F above normal, and all except April were rainier than average. It was the rainiest year in the 50-year weather recording his
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. IN NEW JERSEY Ridniest year in SO year Itistory By PHILIP E. MARUCCI Cranberry, Blueberry Specialist Chatsworth, The weather at Pemberton, , in 1979 could be described as excessively rainy and cool. Precipitation was above normal in 10 months (in all except April and December). Temperature was below normal for the seven months from April through October, except for August, which was only degrees F above normal, and all except April were rainier than average. It was the rainiest year in the 50-year weather recording history at Pemberton. The total of inches was inches above normal and surpassed by about 1 % inches the previous record of inches in 1958. In the half century of weather observing, rainfall has been above 60 inches only two times and above 50 inches 10 times. The average maximum daily temperature for the year was degrees F and the minimum was degrees F, giving an annual average daily temperature of degrees F, which is degrees F below normal. Only in nine years was there a lower annual average temperature. Extremes in temperature were 93 degrees F on Aug. 1 and 12 below zero on Feb. 18. The maximum daily temperature was the lowest in 50 years. The minimum was the second lowest ever recorded in Pemberton, the coldest being 17 below zero on Feb. 9, 1934. Although February 1934 was the coldest single month, averaging degrees F compared to degrees F for February 1979, the latter month had a record breaking number of sub-zero days. There were eight days below zero in February 1979 compared to six' in February 1934. (It may be of interest to give a short summary of the sub-zern temperatures which have been recorded in the half century at Pemberton. Sub-zero temperatu occur with about the same frequency in January and Febrn These frigid readings have occu] in 15 years in January, 14 yearsi in February, six years in Decen and only once in Ma
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