Cold Causes Losses Of $15,000,000 in Ontario Tobacco Crop; Warming Trend Seen
A record low temperature for the third time in the last four days was recorded at 5 this morning but Assistant Weatherman John Feeley forecast “a warming trend.”
The new Sept. 19 record is 39 — replacing the 40-degree readings of 1929 and 1942.
Today the temperature is expected to reach the middle 60s. Tomorrow’s high is likely to be above 70.
Mr. Feeley foresees a low tomorrow morning of about 45, which will not be a record. The Sept. 20 minimum, set in 1929 and duplicated in 1956, is 37.
The cold weather this week has caused an estimated $15,000,000 damage to the Ontario tobacco crop according to M. Mercier, statistician at the Vineland Government Experimental Station, St. Catherines, Ont.
He said the ripening of Elberta peaches has been arrested but quality will not be affected. Grapes, the only other fruit not picked, have not been harmed because temperatures in the Niagara peninsula have not dipped below 28 — the danger zone for grapes.
