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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Meteorological observations for the month of October, 1912, at Agricultural College, East 



Lansing, Michigan. 



.Atmospheric Pressure. — (Reduced to sea level; inches and hundredths.) — Mean, 30.06; highest, 30.48; date, 16; lowest, 

 29.71; date. 18. 



Teuperatltib. — Highest, 80; date, 6; lowest, 29; date, 20; greatest daily range, 35; date, 5; least daily range, 5; date, 10. 



Wind. — Prevailing direction, southwest; total movement, 4,512 miles; average hourly velocity, G.l; maximum velocity ffor 

 five minutes) 28 miles per hour, from west on 12. 



We.^thbr. — Number of days, clear, 17; partly cloudy, 3; cloudy. 11; on which .01 inch, or more, of precipitation occurred, 10. 



MiscELL.itfEon8 PHENOMEN'.t (datcs of). — .\uroras, 0; halos: solar, 21-25-28; lunar, 0; hail, 0; sleet, 0; fog, 4-28-31; thunder- 

 Btorms. 0-11-12-22. 'Frost: liyht. 2-13-14-15; heavy, 8; kilUng, 16. 



Note. — "T" indicates trace of precipitation. 



•Frosts are not recorded after the occurence of "killing," except in Florida and along the immediate coast of the Gulf of 

 Mexico. 



DEWEY A. SEELEY, 

 Local Forecaster, Weather Bureau. 



