Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1904 — March Gets Away From Us. [ARTICLE]

March Gets Away From Us.

March 1904 has gone where all bad Marches go, and good ones too for that matter, which is into the irrevocable past. It was not the stormiest March on record, nor the coldest by any means, though it was one of the wettest ever known here, and even after it seemed surely to have shot its last wad in the water line, it turned loose and rained another half inch, after six o’clock at night of the last day. There was rain on 15 different days, and a total of 6.49 inches of precipitation, including rain and melted snow. No other March on record here approached it for wetness, and only one month of any name for three years has exceeded it, which was June 1902. There was 7 inches of snow; 13 cloudy days, 13 partly oloudy and only 5 classed as wholly clear. Sunshine was a scarce commodity, The coldest weather was 17 degrees above zero, on the 16th, and the warmest 68 on the 24th. The greatest daily range was 34 degrees, on the 24th. Severe thunder storms occurred on the 22ud and 30th.