Tue WEATHER oF. 1905. 99 
of 19 deg. was recorded. The annual range was thus 63.5 deg., 
and the mean temperature of the year was 48.2 deg. The annual 
means since I began to take observations in 1887 have varied 
from 46 deg. in 1892 to 49.5 deg. in 1898; the mean of nineteen 
years being 47.6 deg., so that the mean temperature of the past 
year was fully half-a-degree above the average. The warmest 
month of the year was July, with a mean of 62 deg., being two 
and a half degrees above the average ; and the next warmest June, 
with a mean of 58.9 deg., which was also more than one degree 
above the average of 57.7 deg. And these were both extremely 
favourable months, with an amount of sunshine considerably in 
excess of the mean, and a larger proportion of really warm days 
than what is usual. June, for example, had five days with 
maxima exceeding 80 deg. and eight days with maxima 
of over 70 deg.; while July had sixteen days with maxima 
of 70 deg. to 80 deg., and two of them above 80 deg. The 
coldest month was January, with a mean of 39.7 deg., and the 
next coldest November, with a mean of 40.3 deg. The average 
mean temperature of November is 43 deg. ; and the considerable 
deficiency which marked the November of 1905 was due to a cold 
snap which occurred between the 17th and the 21st in connection 
with a northerly type of weather, during which the lowest reading 
of the year was recorded, and it may also be noted that October 
had a similar experience of northerly, north-easterly, and north- 
westerly winds for about a week after the middle of the month, 
with night frosts of considerable severity, which lowered the mean 
temperature of the month from 47.6 deg., which is the average, to 
44 deg., and for the particular week referred to after the 16th to 
39.6 deg. ‘The other winter months were characterised by ex- 
tremely moderate weather, December, for example, showing a 
mean temperature of 43 deg., not less than 5 deg. above average, 
and January and February means of 2 deg. above average. It is 
a remarkable fact, which should not be passed over without 
notice, that there was a week in the _ beginning of 
December which had a temperature little more than one 
degree below that of the corresponding week in June, 
the one being 50.5 deg., and the other no more than 51.7 deg. 
This mildness of the winter months continued into March, which, 
though boisterous and unsettled, as it usually is, had a mean 
temperature three degrees above average, and was remarkably 
