| 66.8 | 65.5 | 56.2 | 44.1 | 31.5 | 17.3 |
| 74.9 | 73.3 | 65.9 | 54.3 | 43.5 | 33.9 |
| 72.2 | 70.3 | 61.4 | 49.2 | 39.4 | 28.3 |
| 69.7 | 67.8 | 60.1 | 47.7 | 38.2 | 28.8 |
| 76.6 | 74.5 | 67.7 | 55.8 | 45.0 | 37.8 |
| 81.3 | 80.6 | 76.9 | 67.2 | 58.3 | 52.2 |
| 83.3 | 83.5 | 82.5 | 79.1 | 75.6 | 72.8 |
| 79.8 | 79.4 | 76.1 | 65.7 | 57.0 | 52.8 |
| 80.4 | 79.6 | 77.1 | 69.1 | 57.5 | 56.2 |
| 72.7 | 70.9 | 63.5 | 51.8 | 42.6 | 34.7 |
| 82.3 | 83.3 | 79.9 | 72.2 | 62.2 | 52.1 |
| 57.9 | 62.2 | 61.6 | 61.9 | 56.2 | 50.0 |
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Snows during this month are much heavier, and more frequent, in some
localities than others. The reasons why this is so have been stated. The
mountainous portions of the country receive the heaviest falls. They
affect condensation somewhat, and according to their elevation. They
intercept the flakes before they melt, and retain them longer without
change. The thaws, or tropical storms, also sometimes have a current of
cold air, with snow setting under them on their northern and north-western
border. Such was the case with that investigated by Professor Loomis.
January is without other marked peculiarities. It shows, of course, those
extremes of temperature found, to a greater or less degree, in all the
months, and differs, as the others differ, in different seasons. Normally,
in temperate latitudes, it is a healthy month. The digestive organs have
recovered from that tendency to bilious diseases which characterizes the
summer extreme northern transit, and the tendency to diseases of the
respiratory organs, which characterizes the southern extreme and the
commencement of its return, is not often developed till February.
February, in its normal condition until after the 10th, and about the
middle, is much like January. Often the first ten days of February are the
coldest of the season. The average of the month is a trifle higher, in
most localities, as the tables show. This results from the increasing
warmth of the latter part of the month. There are localities, however,
where the entire month is as cold as January. Such (as will appear from
Blodget's table) are Albany and Rochester, in the St