The probable number of days snow during January are two, during February three, and during March one. This average seems, therefore, to have been exceeded this year. The greatest number of snow days was recorded in 1909, which set up a record of fourteen days of snow. 1n 1914, there was no snow whatever recorded. The latest date on. which the ground was still frozen was March 30, recorded in 1901 and in 1917. The earliest was November 2, 1885.
The usual cause of a belated snowfall is a sudden onrush of cold high pressure from Siberia over China, following days of balmy, warm weather, This explains what has happened this year. The thickness of the snowfall, measured at 8 a.m. yesterday was seven centimeters,
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