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H/6/1939-7-

The Highlands, June 6^th, 1939

As "Metereologist" of the Sandy Spring
Horticultural Society I submit the
following report of the weather, so far,
during the year 1939.

		average	record
January Precipitation	3.41"	3.55"	7.83" '37
Feby. Precipitation	5.71"	3.27"	6.84" '84
March Precipitation	2.89"	3.75"	8.84" '91
April Precipitationv	3.78"	3.27"	9.13" '89
May Precipitation	.41"	3.70"	10.69"

June 1st last year we were 5.57" below
the average precipitation. June 1st this year we
we but 1.34" below but, the month of
May this year, we were 3.29" below average for
the month, thus causing our gardens to be
drier than this time last year.
clemens
Again we have been blessed with
moderate temperature during the winter.
17° was the lowest, on Feb'y 23d at the
Highlands & Washington, DC. W.B. but I have
heard of its being much colder in other
places in the neighborhood, and as low as
40° below zero in many places in the U.S.