Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1906 — Weather Record For February. [ARTICLE]

Weather Record For February.

February is noted as the month in which women talk less than in any month of the year. /The explanation of this phenomenon is the very obvious one that it is the month in which they have the least, time to talk of aiiyof the months, because it is the shortest. .But the analagous proposition that it is the month with the least changes of weather of any. will not work so well. I n fact, though the shortest of the ■, months, it is Usually Tong enough to work in about as many changes as the longest of them. This year, however, February has been unusually equable. For the most part it has been mild and steady, and free from storms, to an almost unprecedented degree. As to snow, which is apt to be sueh a prominent and disagreeable feature of the month, this year there was less than two inches in all, and what did come melted off in a day or two. There was comparatively little rain, also,' only 1.17 inches during the month, ami only' four rainy days. The most any one day -was .58 of an inch on the.24th. Sunshine was the mouth's great specialty, and there were 16 days recorded as clear, hree as partly clear and only 9as wholly cloudy. It would hurry California to better that record. The appearance, in considerable numbers of robins and blue-birds and wild ducks and geese was an unusual feature of the month. There was withal, some pretty cold weather during the month, with zero touched three times, namely 4 below on the 6th, 8 below on the 7th and just zero on the 11th. After the latter date there was hardly any severely eol< weather.