THe WEATHER OF 1906. 71 
mean of 58.8 deg.; and July, with a mean of 58.4 deg. Juns 
and August were both above average, and July only very slightly 
below. June was remarkable for warm, sunny days, with maxi- 
mum temperatures ranging from 70 deg. to 82 deg., and no rain 
from the 2d to the 16th, and only 10 days in which any rain fell. 
The coldest months were February and December, February with 
a mean of 37 deg., 1 deg. below the mean, and December with 
36.1 deg., 24 deg. below average. ‘Taking all the months, there 
were six, viz., January, June, August, September, October, and 
November, which had excesses above the mean amounting alto- 
gether to 12.2 deg. ; and five which had deficiencies below the 
mean, viz., February, April, May, July, and December, to the 
amount of 7.1 deg.; while March was exactly average. Hence 
we can readily understand that the temperature of the year as a 
whole must be somewhat in excess of the average, although not to 
any great extent. The mean of the last 20 years is 47.5 degs. ; 
but 1906 comes out at 48.3 degs. 
Rainfall.—We now pass on to the rainfall, not the least im- 
portant element of the weather. The number of days in which 
precipitation took place either in the form of rain or of snow 
or hail was 211 (rain 199, snow or hail 12). The heaviest rain- 
fall in 24 hours occurred on the 2d of August in connection with 
a severe thunderstorm, and amounted to 1.70 in., and again on 
the 13th of the same month there was a fall of 1 in. Only on 
one other day, in May, the 19th of that month, was there a fall 
exceeding an inch, the amount then recorded having been 1.38 
in. The total amount for the year was 36.29 in. This is slightly 
under the average, the mean of 20 years being 37.11 in. The 
wettest months of the year were May and August. For May the 
record was 5.44 in., rather more than double the average for that 
month. In August the amount was 6.73 in., about 24 in. above 
the mean. It may be mentioned that during these months the 
river was almost constantly flooded, and in the beginning of 
_ August particularly the depth at the bridge was nearly 11 feet 
and the Sands completely covered. But while these two months 
contributed so heavily to the rainfall of the year, all the other 
months, with the exception of October, were under the average 
in amount, the driest having been September, with a record of 
only 0.72 in., with only eight days on which it fell; April with 
0.92 in., with ten days; and June with about half its usual 
