METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 

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



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Barombtee — Mean, 29.97 inches; highest, 30.49 inches, on 17th; lowest, 29.10 inches, on 6th. 



Tempera TUBE — Highest, 67°, on 25th; lowest, —4°, on 23rd; greatest daily range, 35°, on 23d; least daily range, 3°, on 27th; 

 normal for month, 32.3°; excess or deficiency this month, —6.1°; accumulated excess or deficiency since January 1st, —110°; 

 average daily, same period, —1.2°; highest in 31 years, 82°, lowest, —12°. 



Precipitation (in inches) — Total amount, 3.09; normal, 2.26; excess or deficiency this month, -f 0.83; since January Ist, 

 -1-0.45; greatest amount in any 24 hour period, 1.33, on 26th and 27th; total snowfall, 19.3 inches. 



Wind — ftevailing direction, northeast; total movement, 5,908 miles; average hourly velocity, 7.9 miles; maximum velocity, 

 31, from the northwest, on 9th. 



Dates of — Auroras, 8; dense fog, 26, 29, 30, 31; hail, 0; sleet, 24; thunderstorms, 6, 9; hales: solar, 2, 3, 4, 5, 13, 16, 21, 31. 

 (Frosts not recorded.) 



DEWEY A. SEELEY. 



Local Forecaster. 



