Weather rambling — June 1894

The weather forecast was right — for a few days anyway.

“Weather Prophet Brady hit the nail on the head when he predicted a cold spring. The weather was frosty last night,” The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on June 6, 1894.

Some crops were stunted.

“Corn is very backward this season. Many farmers are replanted,” the Kingsbury correspondent reported in The Morning Star on June 16.

Others were not.

“The grass and oat crops are looking well for this time of year,” the Fort Ann correspondent reported in The Granville Sentinel on June 8, 1894.

Cold turned to heavy wind, rainstorms, and heat.

“It is stated that Monday was the hottest eleventh day of June known in this section of the country for twenty-three years,” the Salem correspondent reported in The Granville Sentinel on June 15.

“Glens Falls is not the only place that has been visited by heavy storms during the past two days. About midnight Sunday Warrensburg had the hardest storm with thunder and lightning than it has had in years,” The Morning Star reported on June 19.

“The recent rains have projected a demand for catch basins in many localities,” The Morning Star reported on June 20.

“A severe thunderstorm accompanied by hail and heavy wind passed over here Monday afternoon. Large branches were broken from apple trees, and several trees blew over, but no serious damage was done to crops,” the West Mountain correspondent reported in The Morning Star on June 21.

“The prospects are that the hay crop will be very light,” the Johnsburg correspondent reported in The Morning Star.

“The thermometer registered seventy-four in the shade yesterday afternoon,” The Morning Star reported on June 23.

“The showers of the past week have been of great benefit to grass and other crops,” the Stony Creek correspondent reported in The Morning Star on June 25, 1894.

“The thunderstorm that visited Glens Falls yesterday afternoon passed over Caldwell about one o’clock. The rain was quite heavy there, and the lightning was sharp and frequent,” The Morning Star reported on June 25. “During the storm a bolt struck the Lake House, entering at the cornice, over the parlor, passing down through the room and into the basement. Fortunately, no fire resulted from the strike.”

Lightning struck elsewhere.

“During one of the recent thunderstorms, the lightning struck a wire fence near Miller Hill along the wire, striking twenty-seven of the fifty posts in the fence,” the West Mountain correspondent reported in The Morning Star on June 28.

“Very warm weather this past week. Some days the thermometer registered ninety degrees in the shade,” the Hebron correspondent reported in The Granville Sentinel on June 29.

“Where is the man who said it was going to be a cold, frosty summer?” the South Hartford correspondent quipped. “We would like to interview him in the shade. Saturday at 2 o’clock, the mercury was out of the top of the thermometer. So, we have no idea how hot it was.”

In other June weather news collected from historic newspapers of the region:

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“We had a nice rainstorm last evening,” the Crown Point correspondent reported in the Ticonderoga Sentinel on June 14.

“Everything is greatly favored by the copious rains of last week,” the Ironville correspondent reported.

“Haying is next in order. Get your haying implements in time,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on June 29.

“Crops are looking good,” the Moriah correspondent reported in the Ticonderoga Sentinel on June 29.

“The weather is delightful. The frequent showers and the warm sun are pushing vegetation forward very rapidly,” the Port Henry correspondent reported in the Ticonderoga Sentinel on June 29.

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