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TRANSACTIONS OP THE 



MEAN SPRING RAINFALL. 



The table below will be found to contain the record of rainfall and 

 number of days rain fell during the Spring months and for the Spring 

 season. It informs us that the wettest Spring season was that of 1880 — 

 16.66 inches; and the driest was that of 1857 — .68 of an inch; the mean 

 average for thirty-three years being 5.219 inches, showing a deficiency of 

 nearly 5 inches in the dry season of 1857, and an excess of over 11 inches 

 during the wet Spring of 1880, as compared with a thirty-three years average: 



Spring of — 



March. 



Inches. 



No. of 

 Days. 



April. 



Inches. 



No. of 

 Days. 



May. 



Inches. 



No. of 

 Days. 



Total for 



Spring 



Mouths. 



Total No. 

 Days for 

 Spring. 



1853 



1854 



1855 



1856 



1857 



1858 



1859 



1860 



1861 



1862 



1863 



1864 



1865 



1866 



1867 



1868 



1869 



1870 



1871 



1872 



1873 



1874 



1875 



1876 



1877 



1878 



1879 



1880 



1881 



1882 



1883 



1884 



1885 



Totals. 



Averages for 33 years 



3.50 

 1.50 

 4.32 

 2.13 

 sprink. 

 1.21 



.98 

 2.87 



.48 



.82 

 1.69 

 1.08 

 1.37 



.48 

 1.80 

 2.31 

 1.24 

 2.12 

 1.45 



.61 



.51 



.89 



sprink. 



1.10 



.19 

 1.07 

 2.66 

 14.20 

 1.64 

 1.99 



.67 

 4.32 



.68 



61.N8 



1.875 



7 

 9 

 9 

 8 

 1 

 3 

 6 

 8 

 4 

 9 

 9 

 4 

 3 

 6 

 7 

 9 

 5 

 7 

 6 

 6 

 4 



10 

 3 



10 

 7 

 3 



12 



15 

 6 

 8 

 7 

 9 

 7 



227 



1.45 



.21 



1.15 



1.84 



sprink. 

 .20 



1.04 



2.49 

 .59 



1.81 

 .36 

 .74 

 .46 



2.25 

 .01 

 .27 

 .65 

 .27 

 .76 

 .28 



.37 



sprink. 

 .15 

 .64 

 .17 

 1.30 

 .76 



sprink. 



.35 



2.85 



.06 



sprink. 



23.48 



4 

 4 



6 

 4 

 3 

 4 

 4 

 10 

 3 

 9 



9 



11.95 

 4.96 

 9.67 

 5.37 

 .68 

 4.29 

 3.66 



10.47 

 4.39 

 5.43 

 4.41 

 3.12 

 2.31 

 4.75 

 2.82 

 6.93 

 4.83 

 4.03 

 2.90 

 2.83 

 1.06 

 4.31 

 .80 

 5.40 

 1.39 

 4.33 

 8.84 



16 66 

 3.01 

 6.12 

 7.22 



12.52 

 .76 



126 



172.22 



19 

 17 

 24 

 17 

 14 

 20 

 24 

 35 

 14 

 33 

 21 

 24 

 12 

 22 

 14 

 23 

 19 

 14 

 19 

 19 

 8 

 26 

 13 

 27 

 20 

 21 

 31 

 25 

 13 

 19 

 22 

 25 

 10 



664 



6.9 



.711 



3.8 



5.219 



20.1 



