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(It^g. was I'crorilfMl. 'I'lic annual i-aiige tlius amomiteil to no less 

 tli.'in 72 (legs. It is \v(n'tlij' of remark that August had nut only 

 the highest single-day temperature of the year, a distinction 

 AA'hich most frequently falls to June or July, but tliat it had also 

 the higlu'st monthly mean, viz., 6.3-2 deg., -which was fully 5 deg. 

 above the average for that month. August was an unusually 

 warm and dry month, with a good deal more than the average 

 amount of sunshine. And this was true also, although not to 

 the same extent, of June and July. On no fewer than eleven 

 days in August the thermometer in the shade registered readings 

 of 80 deg. and above, and only on a very few nights did the 

 minimum readings fall slightly below 50 deg. The mean maxi- 

 mum for August was 74 3 deg., and the mean minimum 52 2 

 •leg., whicli gives the monthly mean of 63'2 deg. There 

 were other four months in which the mean temperature- 

 was in excess of the average, viz., June witii an excess of over 

 2 deg., July with an excess ot 1^ deg., October with 2 deg., and 

 Xovember with fully 5 deg. The excess was thus in all about 

 IG deg. On the other hand, the months in which the mean fell 

 short of the average were April A\-ith a deficiency of 2 deg., May 

 of 4 deg., September of li deg., and December of 3 deg. This 

 gives an aggregate deficiency of fully 10 deg., which was more 

 than counterbalanced l)y the 16 deg. of excess. Hence the name 

 temperature of the j^ear is, as might have been expected, abo\e 

 the average, although not to the same extent as last year. The 

 mean annual temperature, calculated on an average of 12 years, 

 is 47-5 deg. Last year it was 49-5 deg., which was one of the 

 highest of the 12. This year it was 48-6 deg., wliich is rather 

 nioie than 1 deg. above the average. There were more than the 

 usual luuiiber of warm days during the summer — days with a 

 maximum of 70 deg. and above. There were only two in May, 

 which was a cold month ; but there were sixteen in June, fifteen 

 in July, twenty in August, and four in September — in all, 57. 

 The number of nights on which tlie temperature fell to and below 

 the freezing point was eighteen in January, with an aggregate of 

 61 deg. of frost, fourteen in February with 56 deg., eleven in 

 ]March with 56 deg., October had six nights with 18 deg., 

 November only three with 4-3 deg., December eighteen with an 

 aggregate of 114 deg. of frost. As August was the warmest, so 

 December was by far the coldest month of the past year, the 

 monthly mean of which — viz., o~i deg. — was 3 dei;-. below the 



