74 METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AT CLIFTON. 



August. — This month was hotter than usual, the mean 

 daily temperature being 61"05 degrees as compared with the 

 normal value 59'34 degrees. This warmth was distributed 

 evenly over the month, there being no very hot daj^-s, and 

 only six days on which the mean daily temperature fell 

 below the normal. The highest temperature registered in 

 the screen was 75*1 degrees on the 22nd, and the lowest 

 45'3 degrees on the 11th. 



September. — The mean temperature of this month was 

 55"56 degrees, the normal mean temperature of the month 

 being 56*76 degrees. The month was therefore slightly 

 colder than usual. The beginning of the month was colder 

 than usual, the rest of the month being of about the average 

 temperature. 



The highest temperature recorded was 66'8 degrees on the 

 19th, and the lowest 41*3 degrees on the 18th. From this 

 also it will be seen that the variations of temperature were 

 somewhat rapid. 



October. — The mean temperature for this month was 

 45'42 degrees, the average of the last ten years being 49'25 

 degrees. The month was therefore much colder than usual, 

 being the coldest October of the last ten years. In fact, 

 there were only two days — and these at the very end of the 

 month — on which the mean daily temperature was above the 

 normal. It is seldom that the mean daily temperature 

 remains so steadily under its normal value as it did during 

 this month. 



The highest temperature recorded in the shade was 57*3 

 degrees, and the lowest in the screen 29*1 degrees. The 

 lowest temperature on the ground was 27*3 degrees, and 

 there was frost on the ground on seven nights. 



There was one period of fairly high pressure from the 

 17th to the 20th inclusive, but the barometer was low 



