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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Meteorological observations for the month of October, 1910, at Agricultural College, 



East Lansing, Michigan. 



Atmospheric Pressure.— (Reduced to sea level; inches and hundredths.)— Mean, 30.02; highest, 30.43; date, 7; lowest, 

 29.51; date, 26. 



Temperature.— Highest, 82; date, 18; lowest, 23: date, 29: greatest daily range, 32; date, 31: least daily range, 4: date, 4. 



Precipitation.— Total this month, 2.27; snowfall, 0.6; greatest precipitation in 24 hours, .93; date, 3 and 4; snow on the ground 

 at end of month, 0. 



Wind. — Prevailing direction, southwest; total movement, 4401 miles; average hourly velocity, 5.9; maNimum velocity (for 

 five minutes), 24 miles per hour, from southwest, on 3. 



Weather.— Number of days, clear, 16; partly cloudv, 5; cloudv, 10; on which .01 incli, or more, of precipitation occurred, 8. 



Miscellaneous Phenomena (dates oO.— Auroras, 0; halos: solar, 24, 30; lunar, 13, Vy, hail, 0; sleet, 0; fog, 0; thunderstorms, 

 3, 5; *frost: light, 2; heavy, ; killing, 7. 



♦Frosts are not recorded after the occurrence of "killing." 



DEWEY A. SEELEY, 

 Local forecaster, Weather Bureau. 



