Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Cooperative Economic Insect Report, Vol. 7: December 27, 1957
Coastal storms moving in over the Northwest were responsible for most of the precipitation which fell in western sections of the country and the heavy snow which accumulated at high elevations in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Reports indicated that as much as 5 feet of snow fell at Stampede Pass in Washington during the week, and at Paradise Ranger Station in the same state 105 inches was measured on the ground near the weekend. Snow depths in Cascade are 60 to 70 inches at feet and 100 inches at feet. Warm temperatures and heavy rains melted the snow cover at lower elevations and on Monday morning only the extreme northern portions of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and New England reported snow on the ground. Many daily record maximum temperatures were equalled or exceeded in the Northeast near or over the weekend, and weekly departures exceeded plus 12° throughout the northeast and in the Northern Plains states. Departures of plus 18° or more were common to northeastern Montana, northern North Dakota and northwestern Montana, while at Boston, Massachusetts, daily temperatures were plus 25° and plus 24° on the 2oth and 2lst, respectively. Only in southern Florida were weekly temperatures averaged below normal, and there only by a few degrees. On several days, strong winds whipped dust into the air in a number of the central and southern Plains States. Thursday morning gusts of 70 m.p.h. Were observed at Lubbock, Texas, and 81 m.p.h. At Otto, New Mexico, with Texas reporting the worse duster of this year as a haze covered most of the state. In Wyoming, the strong winds caused damage to fences, windmills, haystacks.
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