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movement was below the average, but 2,398 miles being recorded. High- 

 est temperature, 79°; lowest, 26°. 



December, 1887. — The mean temperature for this month was nearly nor- 

 mal, being slightly colder than the average. Rainfall was 3.02 inches, or 

 nearly normal, the average for eleven years being 3.25 inches. The month 

 was remarkable for its frosts, it being deposited 13 days. Parhelias 

 observed on the twentieth, lunar halos on the twenty-fifth and twenty- 

 sixth. High winds prevailed, with maximum velocity of 60 miles, and a 

 total movement of 5,084 miles. Immense flocks of ducks feeding in grain 

 fields. Swans flying east on the twenty-fifth. Lilac trees bud on the 

 fourteenth. 



By the annual review summarized above, it will be seen that the mean 

 temperature of each month shows one half to have been warmer and one 

 half colder than the average. The mean temperature for the year 1887 

 was 61.78°, and for the year 1886 it was 62.02°. 



The rainfall from January to June was 14.10 inches, and from June to 

 and including December, it was 4.03 inches, which was not up to the 

 average of this part of the season, normal being 6.16 inches. The total 

 rainfall for the year was 18.13 inches. Highest temperature for the year 

 was 102°, in May and June; lowest, 26°, in November. 



Seasonal Rainfall at Nicolaus, Sutter County, from August, 1886, to 



Date. 



Average for ten years, 19.318 inches. 



