660999
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660999
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1966-09-01
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## Rain Eases Drought in Delaware Basin
Drought conditions in the Dela- in most areas and brought sur- reede 10 miles downstream in the upper reaches of ware River basin have been face soil moisture conditions up from Paulsboro, N. J., to the river during the report greatly alleviated by rainfall to normal, the U.S. Geological Philadelphia & Delaware states period and has changed during October and the early Survey reported today. little.
part of November, the U. S. Upon which the tidal water of the river water - a pollution-free Geological Survey reported Sat- is too salty for drinking-to-gauge - improved significantly, urday.
The Survey's Water Resources Division said gaged streamflows in the river and ground-water reserves had increased in recent weeks. The quality of the water in the Delaware improved, too.
**10 PCT. OF NORMAL**
The average rainfall for October in the basin was 3.17 inches, or 89 percent of normal, the report said. The salt front had moved from 18 inches in the headwaters to 5 inches in the lower part of the basin.
During the first half of November, an additional inch (an inch and a half of rain fell
1/2/66
## Forecaster Sees End Of Drought
By WILLIAM A. GARRETT
Courier-Post Bureau
WASHINGTON - A break in the weather cycle that for four years has had the Northeast in the grip of a drought is regarded as "likely" by one of the nation's top forecasters.
But Dr. Jerome Namias of the extended forecast division at the U.S. Weather Bureau says that meteorologists "do not understand sufficiently the phenomenon to foretell just when it will pass into history."
The bureau's observations, after four years of drought in the Northeast, several times, that the drought was at least bent if not broken.
Namias' report, in a bureau publication, that much more work will be necessary to "pinpoint" the causes of the drought's cause and how this is being helped by high-speed electronic computers.
Vast upper-air currents, Namias theorizes, influenced the drying up of the Northeast in the summer, and the wetting down of other regions. Most frequent feature of these winds was a southward dip in the so-called westerlies.
Over the four-year period, Namias says, there was a deep troposphere trough off the Atlantic Coast. When this along continental shelf, water was colder than normal. This, Namias ventures, may have resulted from a strengthened flow from Labrador.
Air masses which draw heat
## Wet September 'Dented' Penna. Drought Pattern
Bulletin Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11-Heavy rains falling in September "definitely dented" the drought problem in Pennsylvania, the Northeastern United States, government officials reported today.
The official, Henry Barkisdale, a staff hydrologist for the U. S. Geological Survey, said the rain last month "provided a refreshing respite" to many areas and helped to lower streamflows and ground water supplies.
"If not broken," he explained, "the drought has been severely dented."
While warning that it is too early to tell what the final outcome will be, Barkisdale said that with the approaching of the growing season, the water supply problem has "eased substantially."
"Even moderate precipitation would probably enable most communities to get along without having to weather the remaining growing season, and probably the coming summer, without serious problems," he added.
In Pennsylvania, Barkisdale said, water supply conditions improved considerably, even though streamflows were still well below normal for the month of September.
Most of the rain that fell in the state, he said, "was used in
## Storm Lashes New England; Damage Heavy
BOSTON, May 26-Hundreds of homes today when 14-foot tide flooded the New England coast and six inches of snow fell in land.
The sixth highest recorded tide since 1772 hit Massachusetts Bay, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate shore front homes. About 100 expensive pleasure boats were wrecked in the Marblehead, Mass. harbor.
Police and the town clerk described the storm as bad as "we've ever had and worse than the 1938 hurricane." It caused widespread destruction along the New England coast.
On one large stone jetty, the storm left a pile of debris 50 feet across, pieces of wood no larger than a deck top, of what were once up to 30-foot boats.
The Connecticut valley's lucrative tobacco crop was dealt a multi-million-dollar blow by the rampaging storm swept through the fields like a scythe. Protective cheesecloth covering collapsed beneath the weight of snow, crushing the tender to
satisfying soil moisture defi- ciencies, and there was relatively little direct runoff into streams or recharge to ground water.
However, the seasonal decline of ground-water levels was reversed in several wells in the southeastern part of the state.
Barkisdale said water levels in most observation wells in the southeastern part of Pennsylvania were still below average, and levels in two of these wells were at record low levels."
He did not say where the two wells are located.
He said that "the relatively minor recovery of the water supply during September and the average rainfall is needed during the next several months if we are to finish the next growing season with substantial reserves in storage beneath the water table."
## 66 PRECIPITATION UP IN NORTHEAST
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (AP)-More rain and snow fell in the Northeast last year than in any of the three preceding years, the U.S. Weather Bureau reported today.
The bureau said, however, that heavy precipitation in some areas, particularly in the Middle Atlantic states, was limited to the fall months.
A report on the Pennsylvania- Maryland-New Jersey-New York drought, which has been easing since last fall, said that in some areas, particularly in the Middle Atlantic states, precipitation was limited to the fall months.
## New England Hit By Snow, Gales
By SR
BOSTON, Jan. 22 (AP)-A late season gale with northeast winds gusting to 75 miles an hour buffeted the New England coast yesterday, bringing record cold temperatures, snow and rain to parts of Cape Cod and other coastal areas.
Rangers at the Cape Cod National Seashore said winds of 50 miles an hour hit at Provincetown and 30-foot seas posed a threat to 50 miles of shoreline and the new Provincetown causeway.
ROADS FLOODED
Police reported only minor flooding in some roads near the ocean.
The Coast Guard said one boat anchored in Chatham harbor had broken loose and run aground. A pier reported damaged in North Dennis was washed away.
Provincetown reported more than two inches of rain in 24 hours. Nantucket Island, south of the Cape, reported 2.5 inches in 12 hours.
Cape Cod was faced with the threat of flooding and erosion from the storm. High tides rolled in Friday with the thrust of the full moon. Rangers warned that high tides would bring tides of about 2 to 3 feet above normal.
RECORD LOW
A temperature of 10, record low for the date, was recorded in Boston at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Boston reported six inches of new snow on the ground at 8 p.m. Thursday.
Temperatures were reported as far south as Miami, Fla. Sleet and hail were reported in the Carolinas and other baseball game in New Hampshire was snowed out.
Snow plows plied the Mohawk Trail in the Massachusetts Berkshires Mountains on a service road between Greenfield and North Adams. Prof. Richard Southwick, a tobacco expert at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, said snow broke poles and bent the tobacco to the ground.
The damage to the poles and nett, the costs of replacements and labor will run to $1 million, Southwick said.
## Wind and Rain Push Mercury Down to 29°
Summer-type thundershowers, coming in the midst of balmy spring weather, brought a touch of winter back to Greater Philadelphia today.
The Weather Bureau's thermometer at International Airport registered a subfreezing low of 29 degrees at 4:40 this morning.
This represented a 41-degree drop from a high of 70 at 1:15 p.m. yesterday.
Just rain began falling here at 3:04 p.m. yesterday. The rain became heavier between 3:12 and 3:20 p.m. It later became lighter between 3:18 and 4:23.
Gusts Up to 33 MPH
The rain was accompanied by thunder and lightning, and by wind gusts up to 33 miles an hour. The rain ended at 7:05 p.m. The Weather Bureau measured the total precipitation at .51 of an inch.
The airstream preceded a cold front which went through at 4:40 a.m., dropping the rapid drop in temperature.
At 3 p.m. the mercury was down to 34. By 4 to 5 and at 5 to 6, the drop was 29. It took place in a little more than 15 hours.
Power Failure
The storm was blamed for a short circuit which darkened more than 900 homes and business establishments in Pilgrim Gardens, Delaware County, for about half an hour beginning at 4:20 p.m.
A signal on the Pennsylvania- Reading Seashore Lines at Vernon Tower at Ashland, south of Haddonfield, was knocked out.
A high-voltage line across power lines in Cherry Hill, Power was cut off until workmen repaired the line. Firemen said the line at Kington Estates for about half an hour, starting at 4:30 p.m.
A transformer in Westara Pennsylvania dumped nine inches in some areas yesterday. Pittsburgh measured a four-inch fall.
## Fall Rains Ease Drought in Northeast
The drought-plagued Northeast now has enough moisture to hold it at least through the coming spring.
But the Weather Bureau cautioned against any conclusion that the region's five-year drought is at long last over.
"While last year's dry spell was broken by heavy September rains," the bureau said, "it is too early to predict whether there could be a recurrence of the drought next summer."
1/23/67
## Water Reserves Boosted by Storm
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (AP) - Tuesday's snowstorm deposited an equivalent of about 350 billion gallons of water on the Potomac River basin, according to hydrologists of the U. S. Geological Survey.
This is equal to about 10 percent of the Potomac's flow past Washington during all of 1964.
Powell Hobins, a hydrologist, said that "a great benefit will result if there is an orderly and gradual melting of the snow so that a large part of this precipitation percolates into the ground. Significant improvement will be made to the Potomac Basin's ground water reserves."
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## Rain Eases Drought in Delaware Basin
Drought conditions in the Dela- in most areas and brought sur- reede 10 miles downstream in the upper reaches of ware River basin have been face soil moisture conditions up from Paulsboro, N. J., to the river during the report greatly alleviated by rainfall to normal, the U.S. Geological Philadelphia & Delaware states period and has changed during October and the early Survey reported today. little.
part of November, the U. S. Upon which the tidal water of the river water - a pollution-free Geological Survey reported Sat- is too salty for drinking-to-gauge - improved significantly, urday.
The Survey's Water Resources Division said gaged streamflows in the river and ground-water reserves had increased in recent weeks. The quality of the water in the Delaware improved, too.
**10 PCT. OF NORMAL**
The average rainfall for October in the basin was 3.17 inches, or 89 percent of normal, the report said. The salt front had moved from 18 inches in the headwaters to 5 inches in the lower part of the basin.
During the first half of November, an additional inch (an inch and a half of rain fell
1/2/66
## Forecaster Sees End Of Drought
By WILLIAM A. GARRETT
Courier-Post Bureau
WASHINGTON - A break in the weather cycle that for four years has had the Northeast in the grip of a drought is regarded as "likely" by one of the nation's top forecasters.
But Dr. Jerome Namias of the extended forecast division at the U.S. Weather Bureau says that meteorologists "do not understand sufficiently the phenomenon to foretell just when it will pass into history."
The bureau's observations, after four years of drought in the Northeast, several times, that the drought was at least bent if not broken.
Namias' report, in a bureau publication, that much more work will be necessary to "pinpoint" the causes of the drought's cause and how this is being helped by high-speed electronic computers.
Vast upper-air currents, Namias theorizes, influenced the drying up of the Northeast in the summer, and the wetting down of other regions. Most frequent feature of these winds was a southward dip in the so-called westerlies.
Over the four-year period, Namias says, there was a deep troposphere trough off the Atlantic Coast. When this along continental shelf, water was colder than normal. This, Namias ventures, may have resulted from a strengthened flow from Labrador.
Air masses which draw heat
## Wet September 'Dented' Penna. Drought Pattern
Bulletin Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11-Heavy rains falling in September "definitely dented" the drought problem in Pennsylvania, the Northeastern United States, government officials reported today.
The official, Henry Barkisdale, a staff hydrologist for the U. S. Geological Survey, said the rain last month "provided a refreshing respite" to many areas and helped to lower streamflows and ground water supplies.
"If not broken," he explained, "the drought has been severely dented."
While warning that it is too early to tell what the final outcome will be, Barkisdale said that with the approaching of the growing season, the water supply problem has "eased substantially."
"Even moderate precipitation would probably enable most communities to get along without having to weather the remaining growing season, and probably the coming summer, without serious problems," he added.
In Pennsylvania, Barkisdale said, water supply conditions improved considerably, even though streamflows were still well below normal for the month of September.
Most of the rain that fell in the state, he said, "was used in
## Storm Lashes New England; Damage Heavy
BOSTON, May 26-Hundreds of homes today when 14-foot tide flooded the New England coast and six inches of snow fell in land.
The sixth highest recorded tide since 1772 hit Massachusetts Bay, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate shore front homes. About 100 expensive pleasure boats were wrecked in the Marblehead, Mass. harbor.
Police and the town clerk described the storm as bad as "we've ever had and worse than the 1938 hurricane." It caused widespread destruction along the New England coast.
On one large stone jetty, the storm left a pile of debris 50 feet across, pieces of wood no larger than a deck top, of what were once up to 30-foot boats.
The Connecticut valley's lucrative tobacco crop was dealt a multi-million-dollar blow by the rampaging storm swept through the fields like a scythe. Protective cheesecloth covering collapsed beneath the weight of snow, crushing the tender to
satisfying soil moisture defi- ciencies, and there was relatively little direct runoff into streams or recharge to ground water.
However, the seasonal decline of ground-water levels was reversed in several wells in the southeastern part of the state.
Barkisdale said water levels in most observation wells in the southeastern part of Pennsylvania were still below average, and levels in two of these wells were at record low levels."
He did not say where the two wells are located.
He said that "the relatively minor recovery of the water supply during September and the average rainfall is needed during the next several months if we are to finish the next growing season with substantial reserves in storage beneath the water table."
## 66 PRECIPITATION UP IN NORTHEAST
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (AP)-More rain and snow fell in the Northeast last year than in any of the three preceding years, the U.S. Weather Bureau reported today.
The bureau said, however, that heavy precipitation in some areas, particularly in the Middle Atlantic states, was limited to the fall months.
A report on the Pennsylvania- Maryland-New Jersey-New York drought, which has been easing since last fall, said that in some areas, particularly in the Middle Atlantic states, precipitation was limited to the fall months.
## New England Hit By Snow, Gales
By SR
BOSTON, Jan. 22 (AP)-A late season gale with northeast winds gusting to 75 miles an hour buffeted the New England coast yesterday, bringing record cold temperatures, snow and rain to parts of Cape Cod and other coastal areas.
Rangers at the Cape Cod National Seashore said winds of 50 miles an hour hit at Provincetown and 30-foot seas posed a threat to 50 miles of shoreline and the new Provincetown causeway.
ROADS FLOODED
Police reported only minor flooding in some roads near the ocean.
The Coast Guard said one boat anchored in Chatham harbor had broken loose and run aground. A pier reported damaged in North Dennis was washed away.
Provincetown reported more than two inches of rain in 24 hours. Nantucket Island, south of the Cape, reported 2.5 inches in 12 hours.
Cape Cod was faced with the threat of flooding and erosion from the storm. High tides rolled in Friday with the thrust of the full moon. Rangers warned that high tides would bring tides of about 2 to 3 feet above normal.
RECORD LOW
A temperature of 10, record low for the date, was recorded in Boston at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Boston reported six inches of new snow on the ground at 8 p.m. Thursday.
Temperatures were reported as far south as Miami, Fla. Sleet and hail were reported in the Carolinas and other baseball game in New Hampshire was snowed out.
Snow plows plied the Mohawk Trail in the Massachusetts Berkshires Mountains on a service road between Greenfield and North Adams. Prof. Richard Southwick, a tobacco expert at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, said snow broke poles and bent the tobacco to the ground.
The damage to the poles and nett, the costs of replacements and labor will run to $1 million, Southwick said.
## Wind and Rain Push Mercury Down to 29°
Summer-type thundershowers, coming in the midst of balmy spring weather, brought a touch of winter back to Greater Philadelphia today.
The Weather Bureau's thermometer at International Airport registered a subfreezing low of 29 degrees at 4:40 this morning.
This represented a 41-degree drop from a high of 70 at 1:15 p.m. yesterday.
Just rain began falling here at 3:04 p.m. yesterday. The rain became heavier between 3:12 and 3:20 p.m. It later became lighter between 3:18 and 4:23.
Gusts Up to 33 MPH
The rain was accompanied by thunder and lightning, and by wind gusts up to 33 miles an hour. The rain ended at 7:05 p.m. The Weather Bureau measured the total precipitation at .51 of an inch.
The airstream preceded a cold front which went through at 4:40 a.m., dropping the rapid drop in temperature.
At 3 p.m. the mercury was down to 34. By 4 to 5 and at 5 to 6, the drop was 29. It took place in a little more than 15 hours.
Power Failure
The storm was blamed for a short circuit which darkened more than 900 homes and business establishments in Pilgrim Gardens, Delaware County, for about half an hour beginning at 4:20 p.m.
A signal on the Pennsylvania- Reading Seashore Lines at Vernon Tower at Ashland, south of Haddonfield, was knocked out.
A high-voltage line across power lines in Cherry Hill, Power was cut off until workmen repaired the line. Firemen said the line at Kington Estates for about half an hour, starting at 4:30 p.m.
A transformer in Westara Pennsylvania dumped nine inches in some areas yesterday. Pittsburgh measured a four-inch fall.
## Fall Rains Ease Drought in Northeast
The drought-plagued Northeast now has enough moisture to hold it at least through the coming spring.
But the Weather Bureau cautioned against any conclusion that the region's five-year drought is at long last over.
"While last year's dry spell was broken by heavy September rains," the bureau said, "it is too early to predict whether there could be a recurrence of the drought next summer."
1/23/67
## Water Reserves Boosted by Storm
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (AP) - Tuesday's snowstorm deposited an equivalent of about 350 billion gallons of water on the Potomac River basin, according to hydrologists of the U. S. Geological Survey.
This is equal to about 10 percent of the Potomac's flow past Washington during all of 1964.
Powell Hobins, a hydrologist, said that "a great benefit will result if there is an orderly and gradual melting of the snow so that a large part of this precipitation percolates into the ground. Significant improvement will be made to the Potomac Basin's ground water reserves."
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