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(9 a.m. o0°-3, min. 44°-0, max. 57°-8), and from 16tli to 31st 

 40°-3 (9 a.m. 3y°-5, min. 34°-5, max. 47°-0). The week from 

 24tli to 30tli was ver^ cold, having a mean temperature of 35°-8, 

 and the minimum in the shade sinking every night to below 

 freezing-point, which is unprecedented for October on so many 

 consecutive nights. Most of the rain fell duiing the first half of 

 the month, the fall from 1st to loth being 2'15ins., and from 16th 

 to 31st 0-46 in. 



XovEMBEK. — A warm month, with an average daily range of 

 temperature, a humid atmosphere of average pressure, a cloudy 

 sky, and a very heavy rainfall on a large number of days. Coldest 

 days 18th, mean 38°-l, 24th, mean 38° 2, and 27th, mean 38°-2 ; 

 warmest day 16th, mean 54°-l. Min. below 42° on 19 days, below 

 32° on 3 (18th, 19th, and 27th) ; max. above 52° on 13 days, above 

 62° on one day (16th). The mean temperature was exactly the 

 same as in October, the month being as much warmer than the 

 average as October was colder. Rain fell daily from 3rd to 15th, 

 to the amount of 2 "97 ins. There was a display of the aurora 

 borealis on the evening of the 9th. 



December. — A rather warm month, with an average daily range 

 of temperature, an atmosphere of average humidity and rather low 

 pressure, a sky of average brightness, and about an average rainfall 

 on a large number of days. Coldest day J 1th, mean 30°-0 ; 

 warmest days 30th, mean 49°'0, and 31st, mean 49°-2. Min. 

 below 42° on 28 days (every day but 6th, 30th, and 31st), below 

 32° on 12 days; max. above 42° on 18 days, above 52° on 3 (4th, 

 5th, and 30th). A lunar halo was observed between 5.30 and 

 6 p.m. on the 1st. There was a gale of wind during the night of 

 the 4th-5th, exceptionally strong early in the morning. 



