Excerpt from Cooperative Economic Insect Report, Vol. 12: February 23, 1962

Precipitation was again heavy in most of California where weekly totals ranged up to 4 inches or more. Much of Washington, Oregon, and the Rocky Mountain region received over inch of precipitation. Weekly totals were very light in the western portions of the Great Plains, but generally ranged from to inch from the eastern portions of the Great Plains to the Atlantic coast. In Florida, rainfall of about inch in the northeast, to in the northwest, and to inches elsewhere in the State helped replenish soil moisture Frequent precipitation in the Far West increased the snow cover in the Sierras and lower Cascades, with increases up to 50 inches in California. A midweek snowstorm moving from the upper Great Lakes eastward produced from 4 to 8 inches over the northern two - thirds of Minnesota, up to 12 inches in northern Wisconsin, heavy amounts in northern Michigan, and up to a foot in eastern sections of New York State, where as much as 2 feet were reported in the Catskill Mountains Amounts were heavy in New England, except most of Maine and extreme northern sections, with falls of 8 to 20 inches over Rhode Island and central interior Massachusetts. Another snowstorm over the weekend produced heavy amounts from South Dakota and Nebraska to New England where the storm was still in progress as the period ended. Over 2 feet of snow fell during this storm at Sioux Falls, S. Dak. In Iowa, 10 to 20 inches fell in the north, 1 to 10 inches in the south, and drifts in some areas ranged up to 6 feet high. In central and southern Wisconsin, 10 to 12 inches with drifting closed many roads. Heavy amounts also fell in northern Illinois and southern Michigan. (summary supplied by U. S Weather Bureau).

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