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years. The highest monthly mean was in February, viz., 30-103 

 in., and the next highest in May and September, with values of 

 30-1 3G in. and 30-092 in. The weather in these months was for 

 the most part anti-cyclonic, with very light winds and small rain- 

 fall ; but as regards February with the severest frost and also the 

 heaviest snowstorm of the year. Tiie lowest barometrical means 

 were in March, with 29-G40 in., and December, with 29-704 in. 

 But January and November had records almost equally low, and 

 in these months the weather was for the most part changeable 

 and unsettled, with occasional strong gales and heavy rain, and 

 in March with a good deal of snow, 



TEMrERATURE (in shade i feet above the grass). — The 

 highest single day temperature of the year was on the 7th June, 

 when 82-5 deg. was recorded; but the maximum of the 25th June 

 was little short of this with a reading of 81 --1 deg., and in Sep- 

 tember there were three days in which the temperature reached 

 or exceeded 80 deg,, viz., the 9th, the 27th, and the 28th, ranging 

 from 80 deg-. to 81-3 deg. While the absolute maximum was 

 82-5 deg. the absolute minimum or lowest temperature of the year 

 was 1 deg-, below zei'o, which occurred twice on the night 

 of the 8th and again on that of the 10th February, giving 

 an annual range of 83-5 deg. The warmest month was August, 

 with a mean of 59-8 deg., the next warmest, September, with a 

 mean of 588 deg., June had 58-5 deg., and July, which is often 

 the warmest month of the year, had only 57-5 deg. ; but it was a 

 cloudy and showery month, with a marked deficiency of sunshine, 

 which may account for its bemg- under average in point of tempera- 

 ture. The mean temperature of the year, taken as a whole, was 

 4G'7 deg. The average of the last nine years is 47*7 deg., so 

 that the mean of 1895 is 1 deg, below average. The months in 

 which the temperature was in excess of the normal were April, bj" 

 one and a half deg, ; May, by two deg. ; June, by fully three- 

 quarters of a deg, ; August, by two deg. ; September, by nearly 

 four deg. ; and November, by three-quarters of a deg. The 

 months in which there was the greatest deficiency were- — 

 January by six to seven deg. ; February, by ten deg ; July, by 

 one deg. ; and October, by two and three-quarter deg. Thus, 

 while there was an excess of rather more than ten deg, in the 

 monthly means, there was a deficiency of fully twe^Hy, so that it 

 can be r.o matter for surprise that the annual mean for the past 



