Excerpt from Some New and Important Plant Disease Occurrences and Developments in the United States in 1957

Weather OF 1957. General Summary. Wet weather in the central and lower Great Plains and Far Southwest, areas where disastrous drought in 1956 climaxed a 5 to 7-year dry period, was the outstanding feature of 1957. The blessings of rain were marred locally, how ever, by damaging floods and destructive storms.

Drought left the Plains and Southwest only to reappear in the Northeast where hot, dry weather during summer and early autumn cut crop production, created ahigh fire hazard sev eral times, and reduced many municipal water supplies to the extent that drastic restrictions were necessary.

With adequate precipitation outside the Northeast, the absence of any widespread destruo tive freezes in spring and autumn, and generally favorable temperatures during the growing season, total crop production was next to the highest on record.

Severe storms took their usual toll. The most destructive single storm was Audrey, the only hurricane to enter the mainland of the United States during 1957. Tornadoes were again reported in record-breaking numbers, but fortunately deaths and losses were less than in some other years. The blizzard or snowstorm in the Southwest on March 22 - 25 was the worst win ter storm. Hail damage was less than usual.

Precipitation. -precipitation for 1957 was well above normal in most of the nation. Deficiencies resulting in serious drought occurred only in the Northeast, particularly along the north Atlantic coast.

Deficiencies for the year ranged up to 25 percent in the Northeast, and several stations had their driest year on record, including Trenton, N. J. 28. 79 inches and Hartford, Conn 32. 26 inches. In contrast, excesses for the year ranged up to 50 percent or more in the lower two-thirds of the area from the Rocky Mountain region to the Appalachians and in some sections of the Southeast. The following stations reported their greatest annual precipitation on record: Grand Junction, C010 15. 69 inches; Lander, Wyo. 21. 89; Cairo, Ill 72. 98; Shreveport, La 67. 23; Memphis, Tenn. 76. 85; Knoxville, Tenn 61. 49. Many other stations from the central Rockies to the lower Appalachians reported their wettest year on record. 1957 was much the wettest year on record in Arkansas, with 22 stations reporting new annual records and Newhope measuring 98. 55 inches for the greatest annual total ever reported in Arkansas.

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