THE WEATHER OF 1888. 



Taken on the whole, 1888 must be classed among the cold and dry years, 

 the mean shade temperature being a degree and a quarter, and the total 

 Rainfall more than six inches below those averages for the past twelve years, 

 «>., 1876-87. Among its noteworthy deviations from normal meteorological 

 conditions —its cold spring, its warm May, its cold and wet July, its dry 

 Autumn, and its warm November and December, are the most prominent 

 features. 



SHADE TEMPERATURE. 



Means for 1888. '^^'^''f '/°S ^^' Difference of 1888 



1876—87. from average. 



Jan 3617 ... 36"i2 ... + o'o5 



Feb 34-83 ... 39-67 ... _ 4-84 



Mch 3675 ••• 39'88 ... - 313 



April 41-62 ... 44-49 ... — 2-87 



^lay 5087 ... 49-56 ... + 1-31 



June 55-12 ... 56-65 ... - 1-53 



July 5527 ••• 60-34 ... _ 5-07 



Aug 57-51 ••• S9"36 ... - 1-85 



Sept 5323 ... 54-29 ... _ 1-06 



Oct 44-73 ... 4702 ... _ 2-29 



Nov 45'o6 ... 4roi ... -f- 4-05 



I^ec 3963 ... 37-20 ... + 2.43 



Year 45-90 47-13 - 1.23 



The mean temperature of January, it will be seen was exactly normal, but 

 that of each of the three following months was considerably below the aver- 

 age Warm weather came, however, with May, the mean temperature being 

 nearly a degree and a half above the average, and three and a half degrees 

 above the mean for 1S87. It was the warmest May since 1884. June was cold, 

 and July still more so, the former month being five and a half degrees below 

 June, 1887, and the latter five below the average, and more than eight and a 

 half below 1887. July was the coldest by -8 of a degree of any July during 

 the past thirteen years. The next three months were still behind the average 

 of past years, but November and December were warm, the former being over 

 four degrees, and the latter two and a half higher than the average. 



