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inches, showing February to have been 2.576 inches below the average of 

 many years. A brilliant meteor passed to the west in the north on the 

 thirteenth; a hailstorm on the twenty-eighth. Highest water in the river, 

 25 feet, on the first; and the lowest, 14.8 feet, on the twenty-eighth. Peach 

 trees and other fruits in bloom as early as the fifteenth. 



March. 1886 — Mean temperature, 52.1 , which is 3° cooler than the 

 average mean temperature for 33 years. The rainfall was 2.68 inches. 

 being a trifle less than the average of many years. Heavy hailstorm. 

 with thunder and lightning, on the fourth; lunar halos on the sixteenth 

 and twenty-first; light frosts on the nineteenth and twentieth. Highest 

 river, 19.5 feet, on the sixth and seventh: lowest river, 17.5 feet, on the 

 thirty-first. 



WIND. 



(iales of twenty-five miles per hour and over, for each month during 

 1885. and for January. February, and March, 1886, will be found as follows: 



January, 1885 - - - None- 



February 12, 1885.. - N.W. 25 miles. 



February 23, L885 N.W. 31 miles. 



March. 1885 - - None- 



April, 1885 --. ..- - - ..None- 



May 12, 1885 .8. 25 miles- 



May 22, 1885 N.W. 30 miles. 



June. iss5 - .None. 



July 2, 1885 - - 8. 25 miles. 



Aujrn-t. 1885 None. 



September, 1885 -- - - -.None- 



October, 1885: None- 



November 16, 1885 8.E. 2* miles- 



November 17, 1885 .8.E. 36 miles. 



November 22, 1885 8.E. 32 miles- 



November 24, 1885 - S.E. 32 miles. 



December 7, 1885 - N.W. 25 miles. 



January 1. 1886 - -- N.W. 38 miles. 



January 20, 1886 '. 8.E. 44 miles. 



January 21, 1886 - — ---8. 28 miles. 



January 22, 1886.. >.H. 2* miles. 



January 23, 1886 S.E. 30 miles. 



February 15,1886 N.W. 32 miles. 



February 26, 1886 ...S.W. 26 miles. 



March 10,1886.... S.W. 28 miles. 



March 11,1886 N.W. 26 miles. 



March 14,1886 N.W. 37 miles. 



.March 24, 1886 N.W. 30 miles. 



March 25, 1886 N.W. 27 miles. 



March 27. 1886 . N.W. 30 miles. 



OAKLAND WEATHER-F0R THE YEAR 1885, AND GENERAL 

 COMPARISON OF WEATHER FROM 1876 TO 1885. 



By J. B. Trembley, M.D. 



Observations taken at 7 a. m., 2 p. m., and 9 p. m., of each day. Lati- 

 tude, 37 degrees 48 minutes 20 seconds north; longitude, 122 degrees 15 

 minutes 20 seconds west of Greenwich; height of barometer above the 

 sea, 24 feet. 



