THE WEATHER OVER THE UNITED STATES ON JANUARY 26, 1950

The meteorological phenomena in the United States on January 26 have been selected for discussion because they are unusually interesting, and because they were repeated, with little variation, several times during January 1950. The following description, while dealing in detail with the weather of January 26, may be taken to be fairly representative of the trend of events throughout the month. The outstanding features of the weather of January 26 were: (a) The record-breaking high temperatures in the