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January 1932 was an exceptionally warm month in the East.
January 1932 Temperature Anomalies:
The monthly mean temperature was the following at select cities:
Baltimore: 47.4°
Boston: 38.8°
New York City: 43.2°
Philadelphia: 46.2°
Washington, DC (DCA): 46.8°
Daily high temperatures set in 1932 that still stand include:
Baltimore:
January 13 76°
January 14 79°
January 15 78°
Boston:
January 14 69°
New York City:
January 13 68°
January 14 70°
January 15 67°
Philadelphia:
January 13 70°
January 14 73°
January 15 71°
Washington, DC (DCA):
January 13 75°
January 14 76°
January 15 77°
On account of the exceptional warmth, nature responded as if it were spring.
Wednesday’s [January 13] temperature of 59 degrees [in Hartford] started the crocus shoots, produced dandelions and pansies and encouraged porpoises and sea gulls to invade the Connecticut River in this vicinity. Also, a honey bee was seen…
Manchester, NH, reported that maple trees confused by the springlike weather today [January 14] began to give sap to all who would tap them.
Source: The Hartford Courant, January 15, 1932
Several violas in full bloom were picked by Mrs. Sherman D. Wrisley in her garden on Pratt Street, Glastonbury. Strawberry plants blossomed on Tolland Street, East Hartford.
Source: The Hartford Courant, January 16, 1932
Spring’s miscue in the East may have had results on fruit trees, flowering shrubs, bulbs and all kinds of flowers, according to reports that drifted in yesterday [January 15]. In Morris Littlemann’s penthouse garden at Broadway and Thirty-ninth Street, tulips, daffodils and hyacinths popped through the earth, roses broke out in a rash of buds and lilac and rhododendron bushes showed Springlike activity…
Magnolias opened in Heckscher Community Park in Huntington, LI, and grass and weeds had to be cut. Robins flashed over pansy beds in Toronto, and at Brantford in Ontario “an audacious grasshopper leaped with joy,” according to a Canadian Press report. Trusting plants and insects all over the East were betrayed by Spring’s dizzy mid-winter fling…
Ice saws were lying idle in Sussex County, NJ, because there is no ice to cut. Farmers in the district were plucking violets and casting rueful glances on misguided shrubs and fruit trees that had answered the siren call of a Spring gone mad.
Source: The New York Times, January 16, 1932.
The weather was so mild that golfers took to the Saranac Lake Golf Club on January 16 and, The New York Times noted that they recorded “scores not far above par.”
Winter was not non-existent. It made a rare appearance in parts of California unaccustomed to cold and snow. “Hollywood is really having ‘unusual weather’ these days and woke up this morning [January 15] all white and shining under an inch of snow,” the January 16, 1932 edition of The Hartford Courant reported. “Residents of Southern California were amazed to awake this morning to find their streets covered with snow. It being the first time in 50 years in Los Angeles,” the newspaper added. “In San Bernardino, Pasadena, Altadena and in the citrus belt, delighted native sons and daughters who had never seen a real snow crystal before, reveled in two inches of it,” The New York Times reported on January 16. According to the February 1, 1932 issue of The Hartford Courant Arizona was also hit by unusual snowfalls. The newspaper explained that “it is also true that the Indians of Arizona have been swept relentlessly by blizzards, ice and zero weather.”
As with January 1932, snowfalls have occurred in California and Arizona this month. Clearly, memories were made this month (even if some would have preferred somewhat different memories). Now, with a cold pattern in place, it remains to be seen if the days and weeks ahead will produce snowy memories in areas that have been starved for snow through the Winter 2006-07 to date.