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AVERAGE ANNUAL AND SEASONAL TEMPERATURES. 



The statement below shows the average temperature, for each year, for 

 thirty-three years; for the Spring, Summer, and Autumn, for thirty-three 

 years, and the average Winter temperature for thirty-two years. The coldest 

 year, inferring from the average temperature, was that of 1880 — 57.5°; the 

 warmest was 1864 — 62.8°; the mean average for the past thirty-three years 

 being 60.2 . showing the coldesl to have been 2.7° below the mean average, 

 while the warmest year being that of 1864, when it was 2.6° above the 

 mean average for thirty-three years. By careful study of the following 

 table, one is struck by the slight difference between the coldest and warm- 

 est year, as compared with a thirty-three years average, generally not more 

 than 3°. That is. we might safely say that the average temperature of any 

 year is not likely to vary more than 3° from 60°, either way, between the 

 hottest and coldest year, as compared with the mean average temperature 

 for the past thirty-three years: 



* The Winter tables are for the Winters from 1852-3 to 1885-6, both inclusive, 

 t Mean for thirty-three years. 

 X Mean for thirty-three years. 



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