612 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Green Sim of the Krakatoa Eruption; International Weather Cablegrams; Tho 

 Zodiacal Light, by A. Searle ; The Direction of Local Winds as Affected by 

 Contiguous Areas of Land and Water, by T. H. Davis ; Height of the Atmoiv 

 phere Determined from the Time of Disappearance of Blue Color of the Sky 

 after Sunset, by T. J. J. See ; Pilot Balloons and the Upper Winds, by F. O. 

 Hills; Professor Adolf Erman, by W. Erman ; The Atmosphere and the Soil; 

 The Classification of Climates; The West Indian Hurricanes of September, 

 190G (illus. ), by E. B. Garriott ; Weather Bureau Men as Educators; Educa- 

 tional Notes ; and Popular Meteorological Lectures in p]ngland. 



No. 1(». — Suggestions as to Teaching the Science of tlie Weather, I)y J. W. 

 Smith; Abnormal Weather Over Southern Texas, by J. L. Cliue; A Kave 

 Cumulus Cloud of Lenticular Form (illus.), by II. II. Clayton; Do Climates 

 ChaugeV Climatological Data for Mrgiuia ; Land and Sea Winds; Reprints 

 of Works on Meteorology; I'rematiu'e Publication; Sonora Storms and Sonora 

 Clouds of California (illus.), by A. Campliell; Has the (Julf Stream any In- 

 fluence on the Weather of New York City? On the Formation of Anchor Ice, 

 or Ground Ice, at the Bottom of Kunning Water, by H. T. Barnes; Weather 

 P.ureau Men as Educators ; and Studies on the Tliermodynamics of the Atmos- 

 phere — VIII, The Meteorological Conditions Associated with the Cottage City 

 Waterspout — Continued (illus.). by F. H. Bigelow. 



Meteorological observations, J. E. Ostrander and T. A. Barry (Massachu- 

 setts Sta. Met. Bills. 215, 216, pi). Jf each). — Summaries of observations on 

 pressure, temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind, sunshine, cloudiness, and 

 casual phenomena during November and December, 190G. The general char- 

 acter of the weather of each month is brietly discussed, and the December 

 bulletin gives a sunmiai\v for the year. The princiiial data in this summary 

 are as follows : 



Pressure 1 (inches). — Maximum, 30.05, February 11; minimum. 20.25, Jan- 

 uary 4; mean, 30.051. Air temperature^ (degrees F. ). — Maximum, 91, Sep- 

 tember IS; minimum, —7.5, March 24; mean, 47.3. Humidity- — Mean dew- 

 point, 38.6; mean relative humidity, 77.1. Precipitation. — Total rainfall or 

 melted snow, 45.45 in. ; number of days on which 0.01 in. or more rain or 

 melted snow fell, 121; total snowfall, 5(4 in. Weather. — Total cloudiness re- 

 corded by sun thermometer, 1,704 hours, or 40 per cent ; number of clear days, 

 130. Bright sunshine. — Number of hours recorded, 2,(!G0, or 60 per cent. 

 Wind. — Prevailing direction, west, northwest; total movement, 53,273 miles; 

 maximum daily movement, 572 miles, February 28; minimum daily move- 

 ment, 1 mile, February 14 and May 6 ; maxinunn pressure per square foot, 12 

 lbs., December 1, NNW. Dates of frost.— Ijix^t, May 20; first, September 25. 

 Dates of snow. — Last, April 23; first, November 11. 



Meteorological summary for 1905, C. A. Patton (Ohio Sta. Bui. 176, pp. 

 385-890). — This summary includes as usual notes on the weather of each month 

 and tabulated daily and monthly x-ecords of observations, at the station at 

 Wooster, Ohio, on temperature, precipitation, cloudiness, direction of the wind, 

 etc., and for comparison, similar data for 18 previous years (1S88-1005) at the 

 station and for 23 years (1883-1005) in other parts of the State. 



The mean temperature for the year at the station was 49° F. ; for the State 

 50°; the highest temperature at the station 92°, July 17; for the State 100°, 

 July 10; the lowest temperature at the station — 12°, February 14; for tlie 

 State — -20°, February 3. The annual rainfall at the station was 24.93 in., for 

 the State 39.02 in. The number of rainy days was 118 for both the station and 



a Reduced to freezing and sea level. * In ground shelter. 



