A COMPARISON OF THE CLIMATE OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES DURING THE 1830'S WITH THE CURRENT NORMALS

Abstract

A comparison of climatic data for the eastern United States from the 1830's and 1840's with the currently valid climatic normals indicates a distinctly cooler and, in some areas, wetter climate in the first half of the last century. The recently appearing trend to cooler conditions noticed here and elsewhere could be indicative of a return to the climatic character of those earlier years.