METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



Monthly Meteorological Summary, Lansing, Michigan, January, 1916. 



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Barometer — Mean, 30.11 inches; highest, 30.64 inches, on 8th; lowest, 29.39 inches, on .5th. 



Temperature — Highest, 61°, on 27th; lowest, —2°, on 17th; greatest daily range, 41°, on .5th; least daily range, 2°, on 30th; 

 normal for month, 22.7°; excess or deficiency this month, +4.9°; accumulated excess or deficiency since January 1st, -1-150°; 

 averag« daily, same period, +4.9°; highest in 31 years, 63°; lowest, —26°. 



Precipitation (in inche.'s) — Total amount, 3.11; normal, 2.09; excess or deficiency this month, +1.02; since January 1st, 

 + 1.02; greatest amount in any 24 hour period, 0.86, on 11th and 12th; total snowfall, 3.6 in. 



WiND^Prevailing direction, south; total movement, 7,055 miles; average hourly velocity, 9.5 miles; maximum velocity, 31, 

 from the west, on 5th. 



Dates of — .Auroras, 0; dease fog, 0; hail, 0; sleet, 0; thunderstorms, 0; halos: solar, 8, 17, 19; lunar, 25. (Frosts not recorded.) 



DEWEY A. SEELEY, 



Local Forecaster. 



