METEOROLOGICAL TABLES. 

 MONTHLY METEOROLOGICAL SUMMARY, LANSING. MICHIGAN, MAY. 1922. 



147 



Date. 



1 



2 



3 



4 



5 



6 



7 



8 



9 



10 



11 



12 



13 



14 



15 



16 



17 



18 



19 



20 



21 



22 



23 



24 



25 



26 



27 



2S 



29 



30 



31 



Temperature. 



Highest. 



72 

 77 

 62 

 70 

 73 

 72 

 70 

 70 

 75 

 83 

 87 

 75 

 73 

 73 

 73 

 73 

 68 

 66 

 61 

 74 

 75 

 76 

 80 

 83 

 78 

 80 

 74 

 77 

 80 

 83 

 81 



Lowest. 



40 

 52 

 56 

 51 

 45 

 51 

 44 

 40 

 52 

 61 

 56 

 52 

 49 

 45 

 46 

 49 

 54 

 55 

 ,54 

 53 

 54 

 47 

 50 

 58 

 61 

 49 

 46 

 46 

 46 

 54 

 52 



Mean. 



56 

 64 

 59 

 60 

 59 

 62 

 57 

 55 

 64 



64 

 61 

 59 

 60 

 61 

 61 

 60 

 58 

 64 

 64 

 64 

 65 

 70 

 70 

 64 

 60 

 62 

 63 

 68 

 66 



Precipita- 

 tion in 

 inches. 









 46 



T. 





 02 









 17 

 01 





 03 

 06 



T. 



T. 

 05 

 23 

 54 

 80 



T. 













 95 

 02 

 05 



















T. 



Character of 

 day. 



Clear 



Partly Cloudy. 



Cloudy 



Cloudy 



Partly Cloudy 



Cloudy 



Clear 



Partly Cloudy, 



Cloudy 



Clear 



Clear 



Partly Cloudy, 

 Partly Cloudy 

 Partly Cloudy 

 Partly Cloudy 

 Partly Cloudy, 



Cloudy 



Cloudy 



Cloudy 



Cloudy 



Clear 



Clear 



Partly Cloudy 



Cloudy 



Cloudy 



Cloudy 



Clear 



Clear 



Clear 



Clear 



Partly Cloudy 



Percent- 

 age of 

 possible 

 sunshine. 



Mean highest temperature . . . 

 Mean lowest temperature . , 

 Mean temperature for month 

 Total precipitation for month . 



100 



73 



6 



22 



92 



55 



100 



70 



40 



83 



88 



53 



76 



97 



83 



76 



15 



18 



3 



48 



100 



100 



97 



42 



40 



43 



100 



100 



100 



96 



69 



74 6 

 50 6 

 62 6 

 3 39 



10 

 10 

 11 

 13 



Weather. 



Number days clear 



Partly cloudy 



Cloudy 



With 0.01 inch or more of precipitation. 



Sunshine. 



Number hours sunshine 306 3 



Possible hours sunshine 454 7 



Percentage of possible 69 



This month since 1863. 



Year. 



1863 

 1864 

 1865 

 1866 

 1867 

 1868 

 1869 

 1870 

 1871 

 1872 

 1873 

 1874 

 1875 

 1876 

 1877 

 1878 

 1879 

 1880 

 1881 

 1882 

 1883 

 1884 

 1885 

 1886 

 1887 

 1888 

 1889 

 1890 

 1891 

 1892 

 1893 

 1894 

 1895 

 1896 

 1897 

 1898 

 1899 

 1900 

 1901 

 1902 

 1903 

 1904 

 1905 

 1906 

 1907 

 1908 

 1909 

 1910 

 1911 

 1912 

 1913 

 1914 

 1915 

 1916 

 1917 

 1918 

 1919 

 1920 

 1921 

 1922 



Mean 

 tempera- 

 ture. 



60 2 

 57.6 



55 



61 1 

 59 1 



56 

 64 3 

 61 4 

 58.5 

 56 9 



59 6 



60 8 

 58.0 

 58.2 



54 6 

 58 8 



64 3 



65 2 

 52 7 

 52 8 

 56 9 



55 8 



58 

 64 

 53 

 57 

 53 

 55 

 54 

 54 



56 9 

 61.8 

 66 5 



55 8 



56 5 

 58 8 

 58 8 



55 2 



58 4 



59 5 



57 4 



56 7 

 56 6 

 51 2 

 59 6 



55 8 

 51 5 

 63 5 

 57.6 



56 2 

 58.6 

 51 5 

 .56 6 

 50 2 

 61 1 

 54 5 



55 1 



60 

 62 



Total 

 precipita- 

 tion. 



2.87 

 1.77 

 3.48 

 3.80 



2 80 

 2.05 

 1.16 

 1 97 



3 72 

 3 05 

 1 77 



4 46 



4 13 



2 23 



3 44 



2 45 



5 59 

 2.11 



4 04 



5 66 



3 95 

 2 30 



2 67 

 2.42 

 3.66 



3 61 

 4.98 



1 63 

 5,92 

 2.86 



4 83 



2 06 



3 14 

 3 29 



2 15 



3 59 



4 17 

 2 42 



4 92 

 2.63 



2 40 

 5.17 



3 05 

 2 22 



5 59 

 2 44 

 4.13 

 2 67 



6 57 

 2 22 



4 66 

 2 74 



5 13 



37 

 89 

 29 

 43 

 33 

 39 



B.\ROMETER — Mean, 29.96 inches; highest, .30.40 inches, on 1st; lowest. 29.16 inches, on 19th. 



Temper.\ti-re— Highest, 87°, on 11th; lowest, 40°, on 8th; greatest daily rarge, .'}4°, on 29th; least daily ranga, 6°, on 3d; 

 normal temjjerature, 57.1°; departure. +5.5°; accumulated departure since January 1. +378°; average daily departure since 

 January 1, +2.5°; highest in 37 years, 9.5°; lowest, 17°. , 



Precipit.\tio.v (in inches) — Total this month, 3.39; normal, 3.58; departure. —0.19; since January 1, +0.54; greatest amount 

 in 24 hours, 1.32, on 18th and 19th; total snowfall, 0.0 in. 



WiNT — Preyailing direction, southeast; total movement, 3,497 miles; average hourly velocity, 4.7 miles; maximum velocity. 

 21 miles per hour from northwest on 7th. 



Dates op— Auroras, 0; hail, 0; sleet, 0: fog— dense, 4, 11; thunderstorms, 4, 6, 9, 12, 16. 17, 24, 2j, 31; halos— solar, 1. 5. 8. 

 9, 14, 23, 24. 26; halos— lunar, 2; frost— killing. 0; hea\-y. 0; light, 0. 



DEWEY A. SEELEY. 



Meteorologist. 



