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Total number of fair days - 4 



Total number of cloudy days --- 1 



Total rainfall -Sprinkle. 



Total number of light frosts - 2 



Light sprinkle, inappreciable, on the twenty-fifth. First frost, very light, on the morn- 

 ing of the seventh ; second frost, light, on the morning of the twenty-sixth. High wind 

 from N.E. during night of seventeenth and following day. 



Summary for November, 1S88. 



Mean maximum temperature - - — --- 61.3 



Mean minimum temperature 42.3 



Mean of the maximum and minimum temperature - 51.8 



Highest thermometer - - - -- -- 72.0 



Lowest temperature _~ - --- 34.0 



Total number of clear days . . . 15 



Total number of fair days - ..- 8 



Total number of cloud} 7 days . 7 



Total number of davs rain fell— -- 7 



Total rainfall. - 4.67 



Total number of heavy frosts . - 1 



First heavy or killing frost occurred on morning of November twenty-first. Eggshell ice 

 formed where water stood on boards. Lunar halo. 



Summary for December, 1S88. 



Mean maximum temperature -- 54.5 



Mean minimum temperature --- 39.1 



Mean of the maximum and minimum temperature - - 46.8 



Highest thermometer . - 68.0 



Lowest temperature r 31.5 



Total number of clear days 11 



Total number of fair days 6 



Total number of cloudy days -.- 14 



Total number of days rain fell .. 13 



Total rainfall - 7.99 



A little fog for a few hours on second and eleventh, on both days in afternoon. Lunar 

 halo on twelfth, also on sixteenth. Hail fell at 4 p. m. of twenty-seventh. 



Summary for January, 1889. 



Mean maximum temperature 52.7 



Mean minimum temperature .. 33.5 



Mean of the maximum and minimum temperature... 43.1 



Highest thermometer- 61.5 



Lowest temperature 25.0 



Total number of clear days 20 



Total number of fair days . .. 5 



Total number of cloud y days 6 



Total number of days rain fell 5 



Total rainfall 66 



First snow thus far of the season fell on evening of seventeenth; just covered the 

 ground ; in the morning was about all gone. 



Summary for February, 1889. 



Mean minimum temperature -- 37.2 



Lowest temperature .-. 24.0 



Total number of clear days 21 



Total number of fair days 2 



Total number of cloudy days 5 



Total number of days rain fell - -.. 3 



Total rainfall ' .68 



Summary for March, 1889. 



Mean minimum temperature 41.4 



Lowest temperature ... 32.0 



Total number of clear days . 15 



Total number of fair days 4 



Total number of cloudy days 12 



Total number of davs rain fell 12 



Total rainfall .'. 12.29 



