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temperature, 49.8°; maximum, 83° on the twentieth; minimum, 29° on the 

 fifth. 



May — This month was generally dry, clear, and pleasant in its weather 

 aspects, with but seven moderately rainy days. The first and last parts of 

 the month were moderate in temperature, and the middle the warmest por- 

 tion of it; yet without great extremes of temperature. Mean temperature, 

 54.2°; maximum, 86° on the twelfth, and minimum, 35° on the twenty-first. 



June — The weather was rather cold for the season, with two days of heavy 

 rainfall in the first part of the month, and the same occurrence near the 

 middle of the month — the latter portion being dry and pleasant, but cooler 

 than usual on account of the prevailing winds being from the north. Mean 

 temperature, 53.9°; maximum, 84° on the twentieth, and minimum, 36° on 

 the twentieth. 



July — It was almost uniformly dry and pleasant, with but two or three 

 rainy days; the greater part of the month being moderate in temperature 

 from prevalent northerly winds, with a week of pretty warm weather at the 

 middle of the month. Mean temperature, 63.74°; maximum (twentieth), 

 94°; minimum (fifteenth), 43°. 



August — It was clear and dry throughout, with one light thunder shower 

 at the middle of the month. Owing to northerly winds the weather was 

 moderate and equable, with but one or two very warm days. Mean tem- 

 perature, 65.67°; maximum (twenty -ninth), 94°; minimum (first), 45°. 



September — It was mainly dry and pleasant, with but seven days on 

 which there were light thunder showers. The first half of the month was 

 rather warmer than usual, the mean temperature being 65°; the last half 

 was much cooler, with a mean temperature of about 59° — the mean of the 

 whole month being 62.01°. Maximum (second), 92°; minimum (eight- 

 eenth), 40° (a light frost). 



October — It was uncommonly dry, with but five days on which there 

 were light rains. Good fall weather. Mean temperature, 50.47°; maxi- 

 mum (fourth), 79°; minimum (twenty-first), 32°. 



November — The weather was mostly mild, with eleven moderately rainy 

 days, and eleven fair days, the balance being cloudy and unsettled. Mean 

 temperature, 40.62°; maximum (ninth), 57°; minimum (twenty-eighth), 23°. 



December — It commenced with a week of good, pleasant weather; the 

 middle of the month being moderately rainy and variable — the last part 

 of it foggy or cloudy, and unsettled. The whole month was unusually 

 mild in temperature. Mean temperature, 37.74°; maximum (twentieth), 

 55°; minimum (thirty-first), 26°. 



The weather in 1888 was uncommonly dry in the spring months, though 

 otherwise moderate and equable ; but the unusually heavy precipitation in 

 June sufficed to secure the well being of the farming interests; the absence 

 of killing frosts still further tended to secure an abundant harvest, par- 

 ticularly of fruit. The temperature throughout the year, with the excep- 

 tion of the first half of January, was uncommonly uniform and equable, 

 much nearer to the annual average than usual, though on this account less 

 favorable to produce a water supply for the mining interest, which was 

 comparatively a failure. Mean yearly temperature, 48.9°; highest, 94° on 

 July twentieth, and lowest, 6° below zero on January fourteenth. 



