. Asbury Park & Ocean Grove. es as a summer-resort should also hold out many and important advantages as a winter home, and it is not surprising thatmany who have experienced the grateful coolness of Asbury Park at times when residents of places a fewmiles inland were fairly sweltering under the burning rays of the summer sun, should laugh at the idea ofAsbury being warmer than its inland neighbors during the period when the arctic wind doth blow, andour old but erratic friend, Jack Frost, comes to the front. Yet such is the fact; and observations over several years show that Asbur
. Asbury Park & Ocean Grove. es as a summer-resort should also hold out many and important advantages as a winter home, and it is not surprising thatmany who have experienced the grateful coolness of Asbury Park at times when residents of places a fewmiles inland were fairly sweltering under the burning rays of the summer sun, should laugh at the idea ofAsbury being warmer than its inland neighbors during the period when the arctic wind doth blow, andour old but erratic friend, Jack Frost, comes to the front. Yet such is the fact; and observations over several years show that Asbury Park is just about as much warmer than New York and Philadel-phia in winter as it is cooler than those cities in summer, the temperature averaging about eight degreeswarmer in winter and about eight degrees cooler in summer. Just why the winter climate of Asbury Park is so mild is something of a mystery; or rather themildness is accounted for in several different ways, some ascribing it to the influence of the Gulf Stream,. COf)kMAN AVENUE FROM CORNER OF MAIN STREET. some to that of the ocean as a whole, and some to the absence of conditions favorable to the longcontinuance of northerly and northwesterly winds. But were reasons as plenty as blackberries, theywould be of no special importance to the average man, for he is interested in results rather than causes,and the results at Asbury are , as a rule, winter is long in coming and quick in going; frost seldompenetrates ninre than a few inches into the ground; snow stavs but a ver\ little wliile ; and ice morethan four or five inches thick is a raritv even in the most severe winters. Some of the residents stoutlymaintain that the winter sun shines here with special brigiitness and fervor, and throws out genial heateven during the time when elsewhere as the days begin to lengthen the cold begins to strengthen ; anddoubtless they are right, to a certain at least, for the exceptionally pure atmosphere of this favore
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