Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1907 — Aprils That Have Been. [ARTICLE]

Aprils That Have Been.

Data covering the months of April for the last thirty-six years, have been compiled from the weather bureau records in Indianapolis, but are not given out as a forecast of the weather ocunditiona fot ...this, month. The mean or normal tern perature for the last thirty-six Aprils was 51. The warmest April was in 1896 with an average of 60, and the coldest was in 1874, with an average of 46. The highest tern - perature was 87, April 16, 1896, and the lowest was 19, April 17th, 1875.

The average precipitation for the thirty-six Aprils was 3.41 inches. The average number of days with .01 of an inch or more ot precipitation was 12. The greatest monthly pit cipitation was 8.6 inches, in 1893, and the least was 1.27 inches in 1896. The greatest amount of precipitation recorded in any twenty-four consecutive hours was 2.62 inches, April 9 10, 1888. The greatest amount of snowfall recorded in any twenty-four consecutive hours (record extending to winter of 1884-85 only) was five inches, April 9, 1897.