NOTES AND REMARKS UPON TIIK WEATHER. 123 



The maximum (day) temperature was 43°, and the minimum 

 (night) temperature was 37°, compared with 43° and 35° 

 respectively in the same month in 1905, and also in 1904. The 

 higher minimum may bo accounted for by the absence of 

 severe frosts, as only 9°, occurring on four days, were registered, 

 whereas in the two preceding Januarys there were 33° frost on 

 nine days and 28° on eight days respectively. 



Consequent on the absence of hard frost and drying winds, 

 vegetation looked remarkably fresh for the season, the grass 

 lands being wonderfully clean and bright. Snowdrops were 

 noticed in bloom on the 25th, while narcissi and winter aconites 

 (Erantliis hyemalis) were in active growth, while those 

 early-flowering rhododendrons, Rhododendron 'prcecox and R. 

 nobleanum, were expanding and showing the colour in their 

 bloom buds, and the buds of the goat-willow swelling fast, in 

 the last week of the month. 



February. — For a few days there was a continuance of the 

 same moderately changeable weather which marked the closing 

 days of January. Then the weather became colder and more 

 wintry-like; sharp frosts occurred on the 4th and 5th. The 

 8th was a wet, stormy day, and on the morning of the 9th there 

 was a fall of snow — which, however, did not lie long, as rain 

 followed — and the forenoon of the 10th was very wet and 

 disagreeable. Frost again set in, and on the 13th and 14th 

 snow and sleet showers were frequent. The weather became 

 more settled, and after the 19th was drier and colder — with 

 some fogs in the city — until the 24th, when another change 

 occurred, and that night and following day were very wet and 

 stormy. These conditions continued with some severity till the 

 end of the month. 



The severe and rapid changes of the weather are well shown 

 by the wide and erratic range of the atmospheric pressure. On 

 the 1st the barometer indicated 29'80 inches, while on the two 

 following days it was three points lower. On the 4th the 

 pressure had risen to 30*00 inches, and kept near that point 

 until the 7th, after which date there was a rapid decline to 

 28*50 inches on the 10th, when a spell of stormy weather was 

 experienced. The rise thereafter was fairly regular, until on 

 the 21st it had again reached 30*00 inches. Another change 



