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TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



The mean temperature of the month was 50.4°, being 9.2° less than that 

 of February, 1886; that of the warmest day, the twenty-eighth, 61.1°, and 

 of the coldest, the sixth, 45.3°. The highest temperature during the month 

 was 79.2°, on the twenty-eighth, and the lowest, 37°, on four different nights. 



The average daily range of the thermometer was 17.88°; the greatest 

 daily range was 36.2°, on the twenty-eighth, and least, 2.5°, on the four- 

 teenth. 



The rainfall for the month was 8.64 inches, or 4.75 inches more than the 

 average for February during the past twenty years; the total for the season 

 to this date is 11.07 inches, or 1.84 inches less than the average for the 

 same period. 



March Weather in Santa Barbara, 1887. 



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

 of the highest and lowest, for each day of the past month, as shown by 

 self-registering thermometer : 



The mean temperature of the month was 57°, and that of the warmest 

 day, the twenty-second, 64.8°, and of the coldest, the sixteenth, 52°. The 

 highest temperature during the month was 82.6°, and the lowest, 43°. The 

 mean daily range of the thermometer was 19.5°; the least daily range, 9.5°, 

 on the third, and the greatest, 36°, on the ninth. Rain fell on one day 

 only, the second. Rainfall for the month, 0.13 of an inch (being less than 

 for any previous March since 1873), and for the season, 11.20 inches. 

 West Butte rainfall, 0.82 of an inch. 



