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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



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



Barometer— Mean, 29.95 inches; highest, 30.26 inches, on 6th; lowest, 29.52 inches, on 21st. 



Temperature— Highest, 78°, on 20th; lowest, 23°, on 7th; greatest daily range, 34°, on 20th; least daily range, 5°, on 22d; 

 normal for month, 45.6°; excess or deficiency this month, +0.1°; accumulated excess or deficiency since January 1st, —111°; 

 average daily, same period, —0.9°; highest in 31 years, 86°; lowest, 10°. 



Precipitation (in inches) — Total amount, 1.91; normal, 2.54; excess or deficiency this month, —0.63; since January 1st, 

 — 0.18; greatest amount in any 24 hour period, 0.48, on 13th and 14th; total snowfall, 0.2 inches. _ _ . 



Wind— Prevailing direction, northwest; total movement, 5,783 miles; average hourly velocity, 8.0 miles; maxunum velocity, 

 30, from the northwest, on 14th. 



Dates of— Auroras, 27, 28; dense fog, 0; sleet, 0; thunderstorms, 11, 12, 13,14, 16, 19; balos: solar, 3, 7, 13, 15, 18; lunar, 18; 

 Frost: killing, 15; (Frosts recorded after April 15th.) „ ^ 



DEWEY A. SEELEY, 



Local Forecaster. 



