. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. months were January, February, June and October. Maximum tem- perature for the year was 94 degrees on July 19 and minimum -5 degrees on February 9. We had five consecutive days with temperatures above 90 degrees from July 17-21 which is a record for us. Precipitation for 1977 totalled inches which is just over 13 inches above normal and almost 18 inches more than in 1976. This is the third wettest year in our records exceeded only by 1972 and 1953. The largest single storm was inches on June 9-11. Months with substantial
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. months were January, February, June and October. Maximum tem- perature for the year was 94 degrees on July 19 and minimum -5 degrees on February 9. We had five consecutive days with temperatures above 90 degrees from July 17-21 which is a record for us. Precipitation for 1977 totalled inches which is just over 13 inches above normal and almost 18 inches more than in 1976. This is the third wettest year in our records exceeded only by 1972 and 1953. The largest single storm was inches on June 9-11. Months with substantially above normal precipitation were March, June, August, September, October and December. The only months that were well below normal were July and November. Snowfall was inches total or about 50% above normal. Largest single storm was inches on January 7. The extremely cold winter of 1976-77 was responsible for another record here in this normally snow-free area near the ocean; we had continuous snow cover from December 29, 1976 through February 27, 1977 or a total of 61 days. Hew ^emij Unlike last year's severely cold weather, this past December was only moderately wintry. There were only four days in which the maximum temperature did not go above freezing while there were nine days of relatively mild tem- peratures above 50 degrees F. The average temperature for the month was degrees F or only degrees below normal. Extremes in temperature were 61 degrees on the 1st and 7 degrees on the 12th. The rainy trend which started in October continued through Decem- ber. Rain on 15 days totaled inches or more than normal. It rained on 31 days during November and December with a total of inches or inches more than 12 normal for the two months. For the three month period October through December there were 43 days of rain with an accumulation of inches, which is 45% of the yearly total. Although the year ended with excessive rainfall,
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