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TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



RAINFALL AND WEATHER REVIEW. 



FROM SEPTEMBEK 1, 1849, TO DECEMBER 31, 1884. 



BY JAMES A. BAEWICK, OBSERVER SERGEANT SIGNAL CORPS U. S. A., IN 

 CHARGE OF THE U. S. SIGNAL OFFICE IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. 



RAINFALL. FOR THE WINTER SEASONS. 



The following tabulated statement shows the rainfall and number 

 of days that rain fell for each Winter month; also, the total rainfall 

 and total number of days that rain fell during the entire Winter 

 seasons; the Winter seasons beginning with the Winter of 1852-3, 

 and ending with the Winter of 1883-4. The three Winter months 

 composing the Winter season that gave the heaviest rainfall was 

 during the Winter of 1861-2: 27.94 inches. The driest Winter was 

 that of 1863-4; 3.08 inches. The mean average rainfall for the 

 Winter season, for the past thirty-two years, was 11.393 inches. We 

 might judge from this that we should never have a Winter season of 

 over twenty-eight inches, or one of less than three inches rainfall : 



