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The mean temperature of the month was 56.3°; that of the warmest day, 

 the twenty-ninth, 66.5°; and of the coldest, the twenty-third, 49.8°. The 

 highest temperature during the month was 83°, on the twenty-ninth, and 

 the lowest, 37.5°, on the sixteenth. The mean daily range of the thermom- 

 eter was 25.8°; the least daily range, 12°, on the twenty-first; and the great- 

 est, 39°, on the fourth. Rain fell only on the afternoon and night of the 

 twentieth; rainfall, 0.87 inches. 



December Weather in Santa Barbara. 



The following are the highest and lowest temperatures, and the means 

 of these, during December, 1886, as shown by self-registering thermometer: 



The mean temperature of the month was 55.8°, and that of the warmest 

 day, the fourteenth, 65.8°, and that of the coldest, the third, 49.50°. The 

 highest temperature during the month was 81.50°, on the fourteenth, and 

 the lowest, 40°, on the eleventh. The mean daily range of the thermom- 

 eter was 19.50°; the least daily range, 50°, on the twenty-ninth, and the 

 greatest, 34°, on the thirteenth. Rain fell on the night of the eighth, and 

 on the twenty-ninth. Rainfall for the month, 0.86 inches; for the season, 

 2.12 inches, while the average for the corresponding period during the last 

 twenty years, is 5.35 inches. 



Santa Barbara Climate for 1885 and 1886. 



The following table, from the self-registering thermometer in the observa- 

 tory of Mr. Hugh D. Vail, shows the mean temperature of each month in 

 the years 1885 and 1886, at Santa Barbara; and, also, the mean tempera- 

 tures of the warmest and coldest days in each month: 



