Third Warmest Winter Registered At Harvard's Blue Hill Observatory

Despite this morning's ten degree temperature, spring weather has jumped the gun, meteorologist Charles F. Brooks '12, Director of Blue Hill Observatory, announced yesterday.

Winter temperatures averaged 5.6 degrees above the 26 degrees normal, making it the third warmest winter on record. Brooks offered no explanation why spring had come so early. He noted that February had been especially warm.

Last month's average temperature of 31.3 degrees was the third warmest February in the weather bureau history.

Last December, Blue Hill had predicted a cold winter, on the basis of a North Atlantic pressure formula developed by Dr. Franz Baur, whom Brooks calls "Germany's leading student" in the field of long-range weather forecasting.

Brooks blamed an "inadequate basis" for the faulty formula, and added that present weather conditions had completely refuted the prediction. For the next month Brooks expected only "seasonal" weather and would make no further forecasts.

Snowfall amounted to 48 inches and averaged 1.9 inches above normal with 25 inches falling in December. The warm weather melted the snow faster than usual. As a result, snow covered the local area for below-par number of days.