Voluntary Weather Observer Alex L.Henle’s Thermometer Registered 100 Degrees Above Zero Friday. –Decided Drop in Temperature Occurred and Low Point Reached Sunday Night Was 27 Degrees Above Zero.–Crops Nipped.

Friday was the hottest May day in the history of the weather bureau in Minnesota. The thermometer presided over by Voluntary Weather Observer Alex. L. Henle registered 100 degrees above zero that day. The wave was accompanied by hot winds, which originated in the southwest and the temperature was so torrid that it scorched lawns and the leaves on trees showed effects of the unseasonable weather. Before evening there was a decided flop and during the night the thermometer reached 58 degrees above zero. The drop continued and Saturday night the low point was 32, while Sunday night it was 27.

Vegetation was nipped, including garden stuff, as well as corn, which was up. Snow was reported in the middle and northern parts of the state.

High winds did damage in the western and central and middle southern portions of the state.

The lack of moisture and the cool backward season is retarding crops of all kinds.

Brown County Journal,

May 29, 1925

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