bserbat'wHS of Cemjjcratur^ at 

 Clifton €a\kQt in 1891. 



By D. RINTOUL, M.A. 



r I 1HE results of the daily observations of temperatare 

 -■- taken at Clifton College in the year 1891 are 

 summarized in the following tables. It is regretted that 

 the temperature curves which were printed in the Proceed- 

 ings of last year cannot be given this year on account of the 

 expense, but the outstanding features of the year's weather 

 can be gleaned from the tables. It will be noticed that the 

 mean temperature of 1891 is about half a degree lower than 

 the average of the last ten years. The months which were 

 colder than usual were January, March, April, May, July, 

 August, and November. Of these, January was by far the 

 coldest, its mean temperature being nearly four degrees 

 below the average for the month, and with the exception of 

 January, 1886, the coldest January in the last ten years. 

 Another remarkable fact is that there was frost on the 

 ground every day from the beginning of the month till the 

 23rd. In February there was not much deviation from the 

 normal, the most striking meteorological feature of the month 

 being the almost complete absence of rain. In March 

 there was a period of extremely cold weather, extending 

 from the 8th till the 24th. There was nothing specially 



worthy of notice in the temperature of April. In May there 



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