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THE CLIMATE OF OROVILLE, BUTTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. 



A general review of the different phases of the weather at ( h'oville. Butte 

 County, California, will he found in the following tables. The report was 

 compiled and furnished by Mr. Hiram Arents, Voluntary United States 

 Signal Service Observer. There is a review of weather statistics for the 

 years 1884, 1885, and 1886. and a daily report for each month of 1886, 

 January, February, March, and April, 1887. 



Table No. 1 contains mean, maximum, and minimum temperature; light, 

 heavy, and killing frost for the year ; clear, cloudy, fair, and foggy days, 

 four months; rainfall from July to December, six months. Lowest tem- 

 perature for the year was on February twelfth, 25°, at 6:30 a. m. This was 

 the lowest temperature recorded in Oroville for nine years. Highest tem- 

 perature was in August, 102°, at 2 p. M. 



Table No. 2 is for the full year 1885. Highest temperature was in 

 August, 105°, at 2 p. M.; lowest in January, 34°, at 6:30 a. m. 



Table No. 3 is also complete for the year 1886. The highest temperature 

 was in July. 102", at 2 r. m. Lowest temperature was 29°, in January. . 



Table No. 4 explains itself: 



