Abstract: A snowfall of 87 inches in 27½ hours on April 14?15, 1921, was reported at Silver Lake, Colo. This snowfall, if correctly measured, exceeds others generally accepted as being record values for the United States. Consequently ...

Abstract: Recently obtained information on rainfall maxima on the island of La Réunion, about 400 mi. east of Madagascar, established new records for durations from 9 hr. to 8 days. Some of the previous record values for 15 to 24 ...

Abstract: Three charts of the contiguous United States show (1) the percentage of mean annual total precipitation contributed by daily amounts of 0.50 in. or greater, (2) the average annuaal accumulation of these daily amounts, and ...

Abstract: Since 1948, when the Weather Bureau discontinued the practice of publishing interpolated precipitation data, monthly and annual totals have been omitted from its publications whenever any portion of the record was missing. ...