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Table Showing mi. Coupabativi A.nnuai Meteorology oi L876, l s 77, L878, L879, L880, 



L881, L882, L883, 1884, L885, vmd L886. 



FOR ELEVEN YEARS. 



.Mean difference between the coldest and warmest mouths for eleven years 17.45 



Mean temperature for eleven years 55.46 



Mean barometer for eleven years 29.93 



Mean relative humidity for eleven years 88.14 



Mean annual rainfall, in inches, for eleven years 24.04 



Monthly Meteorological Synopsis of Casual Phenomena for 1886. 



January. — First half of the month the weather was clear, cold, frosty 

 mornings; ice formed on shallow pools of water on the streets and exposed 

 situations. The horizon was at times almost overcast with a haze through 

 which the sun shone as a lurid ball, its brilliant rays being entirely inter- 

 cepted. This haze continued to increase from day to day until the twelfth, 

 when it settled down upon the earth in a dense foggy mist, soon followed 

 by rain, which continued in showers or storms of longer or shorter duration 



