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Weather Summary at Georgetown. 



By C. M. Fitzgerald, Observer. 



Summary for April, 1888. 



Monthly mean temperature - - 54.7 



Mean maximum temperature - — - 64.1 



Mean minimum temperature 45.4 



Mean of the maximum and minimum temperature 54.7 



Highest thermometer -- - -- 77.8 



Lowest temperature — - -- 34.0 



Total number of clear days - - 16 



Total number of fair days — - 4 



Total number of cloudy davs - --- 10 



Total number of foggy days Part of one day. 



Total number of days rain fell - - - - 8 



Total rainfall .- - - 2.77 



Hail fell. - -- - On thirteenth, at 2 and 4 p.m. 



Summary for May, 1888. 



Mean maximum temperature -- 69.5 



Mean minimum temperature -- - 47.2 



Mean of maximum and minimum temperature 58.3 



Highest thermometer - 82.0 



Lowest temperature - -- -- 39.5 



Total number of clear days -- - -- 22 



Total number of fair days .-- - --- 3 



Total number of cloudy days ■• 6 



Total number of days rain fell 5 



Total rainfall - - -38 



First early cherries ripe - --- May sixth. 



First strawberries -- May tenth. 



Summary for June, 1888. 



Mean maximum temperature - 75.0 



Mean minimum temperature - 51.7 



Mean of the maximum and minimum temperature.-- --- 63.3 



Highest thermometer -- -- •■ 90.5 



Lowest temperature - 41.0 



Total number of clear days.. -- - - 16 



Total number of fair days - 6 



Total number of cloudy days -- 8 



Total number of days rain fell. - - 5 



Total rainfall - 1-56 



Brilliant solar halos— eighth, eleventh, fourteenth, and twenty-third. 



Summary for July, 1888. 



Mean maximum temperature - 89.6 



Mean minimum temperature - - 61.9 



Mean of the maximum and minimum temperature - - 75.7 



Highest thermometer -- - - 98.7 



Lowest temperature 45.5 



Total number of clear days.- - - 29 



Total number of fair days -- 



Total number of cloudy days -- - 1 



Total number of days rain fell - 1 



Total rainfall - 04 



Summary for September, 1888. 



Mean maximum temperature - 80.0 



Highest thermometer 100.5 



Total number of clear days 28 



Total number of cloudy days 2 



Total number of days rain fell - 



Total rainfall - - 41 



Summary for October, 1888. 



Mean maximum temperature • 74.3 



Mean minimum temperature -- — 50.2 



Mean of the maximum and minimum temperature - 62.2 



Highest thermometer .-- - — 84.0 



Lowest temperature - - --• 43.7 



Total number of clear days 26 



