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Excerpt from Climatological Data, Vol. 16: National Summary; January, 1965 The opposing warm and cold air masses of January 1965 remind one of the two-faced Roman god for which the month is named. The cold face was most frequently turned toward the northern Plains and the East with the warm influence over the Rocky Mountains and the southern Plains. Considerable storminess occurred as the arctic air masses clashed with the warm humid masses from the Gulf. Strong winds and heavy rains battered the coastal portions of Washington, Oregon, and California during the first week. Snow fell in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest and in the higher elevations of California. The snow depth at Blue Canyon, Calif., reached 70 inches and the snowpacks on some of the mountain ranges reached twice that depth. The rain over northern California intensity decreased at the end of the first week after 21 consecutive days of rain. Arctic air poured across the Canadian border and the northern Great Plains during the first week of January. Tropical Gulf air pushed northward and by January 8, temperatures in the 6o's were common as far north as Illinois. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.