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being a falling off of 2.40° from normal of ten years. There were 9 frosts. 

 Violets bloomed on the first, almond trees on the twenty-second. Highest 

 temperature, 71°; lowest, 30°, on the seventeenth, being the lowest point 

 reached by the mercury for three years. 



February, 1887. — Mean temperature, 5.11° below average. Rainfall, 6.75 

 inches, being 3.92 inches in excess of average for ten years, and only 

 exceeded in 1878, when 6.81 inches fell during the month. Hail fell on 

 the sixth and twelfth. Frost was deposited on 8 days. Highest tempera- 

 ture, 71°; lowest, 32°. 



March, 1887. — The mean temperature for this month was 3.56° above 

 normal. .96 inch of rain fell, which is 1.63 inches less than the aver- 

 age for the past ten years. There was 1 light frost. A thunder storm on 

 the third, and a fall of hail. A lunar halo was observed on the fifth. 

 Apple, apricot, and peach trees in bloom on the tenth. Twenty-eighth, 

 lilacs in blossom. A meteor, of considerable brilliance, on the twenty- 

 sixth. Highest temperature, 83°; lowest, 42°. 



April, 1887. — Mean temperature, 2.07° above normal. Rainfall, 2.22 

 inches, which is .80 of an inch less than normal. No frosts were noticed 

 this month. There were 4,660 miles of wind. Several heavy gales from 

 the north. Lunar halo on the fourth. From the twenty-first to the 

 twenty-eighth were the hottest days of the month, maximum being on the 

 twenty-fourth. A sudden fall of 18° characterized the twenty-eighth and 

 twenty-ninth, with a windy, cloudy day, and a trace of rain; month ending 

 clear, with the oft recurring north wind blowing. Highest temperature, 

 86°; lowest, 42°. 



May, 1887. — The mean temperature for May was .72° above normal. 

 An appreciable sprinkle of rain gave .01 of an inch, while the average for 

 this month for ten years is .54 of an inch. A killing frost on the tenth 

 done much damage in the State. There was a hot, desiccating wind on the 

 twenty-seventh; slight hail on the sixth; solar halo on the fourteenth; 

 thunder and lightning on the thirty-first. Maximum velocity of wind, 30 

 miles. Highest temperature, 102°; lowest, 42°. 



June, 1887. — Mean temperature, 1.47° below average. Rainfall, 3.04 

 inches; this amount being precipitated in 3-| hours, during a phenomenal 

 storm of hail, which did immense damage to crops. Earthquake shock on 

 the third; paraselene observed on the twenty-fourth. Maximum velocity 

 of wind, 60 miles. Highest temperature, 102°; lowest, 50°. 



July, 1887. — Mean temperature, 2.37° below normal. No rain fell during 

 this month, it being a month of almost cloudless skies. Highest tempera- 

 ture, 99°; lowest, 52°. 



August, 1887. — Mean temperature, 2.81° below normal. Rainfall, a 

 sprinkle. Prevailing wind, south, with light breezes; total movement, 3,968 

 miles. Highest temperature, 99°; lowest, 52°. 



September, 1887. — Mean temperature nearly normal, being .65° below. 

 Rainfall, .01 of an inch; mean for ten years being .22 of an inch. Geese 

 flying south on the ninth. Highest temperature, 100°; lowest, 54°. 



October, 1887. — Mean temperature 4.30° above normal, being a month of 

 sustained high temperatures. Rainfall, none; normal, being .90 of an 

 inch, this being the only October, except one, which was devoid of rain, 

 for ten years, the season of 1881-82 showing no rain for October. Remark- 

 able for a long continued north wind, of about 1,500 miles movement. 

 Highest temperature, 96°; lowest, 50°. 



November, 1887. — Mean temperature was 54.3°, being 1.13° above the 

 normal. Rainfall was 1 inch, which was .97 of an inch short of the nor- 

 mal for eleven years. There were 3 light frosts, and 2 killing frosts. Wind 



