THE WEATHER OF 1907. 65 
deg. twice over, on the Ist and 16th—giving an annual range of 
66.8 deg. July was the only month in which temperatures in 
excess of 80 deg. were recorded, and there were four of them 
in succession, from the 16th to the 19th, and ranging from 81 
deg. to 84.8 deg. The next highest temperature was 78.5 deg. 
on the 28th September, and the next 76 deg. on the 9th of June. 
The warmest month of the year was July, which had a mean of 
59.7 deg., which is slightly above the average for that month. 
The next warmest was August, with a mean of 56.4 deg., two 
degrees below average ; but September was very little short of it 
at 55.3 deg., which was a fraction of a degree above average. 
Both May and June were cloudy and rainy months, with a not- 
able deficiency of sunshine and consequent heat, especially June, 
with a temperature no less than 4 degrees below the mean, viz., 
93.7 deg., as compared with an average of 57.7 deg. The 
coldest months were February, April, and November, which 
were slightly below average, but not much. The mean tem- 
perature of the year was 47.4 deg., which is only slightly below 
the average of the last 21 years. During these years it has 
ranged from 46 deg in 1892 to 49.5 deg. in 1898; the mean of 
all these years being 47.6 deg. There was a good deal of frost 
in the winter months, and especially in February, which was the 
coldest month of the year. January had only 9 nights on which 
the thermometer fell below the freezing point, with an aggregate 
of 42 deg . of frost. But February had 17 with an aggregate of 
116 deg. November had 8 nights with an aggregate of 33.7 deg., 
and December had also 8 nights with an aggregate of only 23 
deg. There was thus a total of 42 nights, with an aggregate of 
_ 214 deg., besides a very few in the spring months of March and 
April. This shows on the whole a moderate winter with the 
single exception of February, which, as previously stated, was 2 
degrees below the average. Hence we find that the mean tem- 
perature of the year, 47.4 deg., was very little short of the 
mean, only two-tenths of a degree, although we may have been 
teady to suppose from the prevalence of cloudy skies and redun- 
dant rainfall that the temperature would have been considerably 
below the usual figure. But it is to be remembered that the 
winds from the Atlantic which brings abundant rain are also 
characterised by mildness of temperature, and that is the explana- 
