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Ann Arbor's Big Rainfall

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
September
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

28.92 Inches in Seven Months This Year

TRILLIONS OF GALLONS of water fell in Ann Arbor as shown at the Observatory--Other interesting meteorological facts

Nineteen hundred and two will go into history as the rainy year in Ann Arbor. Here is the record of precipitation for the first seven months of the year as kept by Prof. Hall at the observatory:

January  .60 inches

February  1.21 inches

March  2.73 inches

April  .77 inches

May  4.72 inches

June  7.56 inches

July  10.70 inches

August  .63 inches

Seven months: 28.92 inches

This means that approximately 2,284,728,500,000 gallons of water fell in Ann Arbor city in seven months. This is over 157,400,000 gallons to every man, woman and child in Ann Arbor, an ample allowance for drinking, bathing and sprinkling purposes.

Prof. Hall states that on February 28th the barometer at the observatory was lower than it has been for a good many years and a heavy blow was expected, but it did not come. On that date the barometer registered 27.9.

The coldest day of the year was February 8, when the thermometer was 6.8 degrees below zero. The hottest day was July 4, when the thermometer reached 91 degrees.

The snowfall was 11.0 inches in February and 3.5 inches in May.

There have been but two frosts this fall at the observatory notwithstanding various reported frosts about town. On Sept. 4 and again on Sept. 13 light frosts were registered.

There are many interesting facts to be gathered from a study of Prof. Hall's monthly meteorological reports.