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month ‘98 of an inch was recorded ; and in the period from the 
10th to the 13th 2:08 inches were measured. 
During 31 years there have been 12 monthly falls of 5 
inches and upwards, 3 monthly falls of 6 inches and over, 
and 3 monthly falls of 7 inches and above. All these heavy 
falls have occurred in months from July to January. 
Hail fell about 2.30 p.m. on the 2Uth. A strong gale 
occurred on the 22nd, and continued in the night and up to 
the morning of the 23rd. 
OcroBER, 
Is often a stormy month with rapid fluctuations of the 
barometer. In this month the maximum reached 30°50 inches 
on the Ist, and fell to the minimum of 29°30 on the 19th; the 
range being an inch and two-tenths. The barometer reached 
30 inches on 25 days. The average of the month was 29°78 
inches, the lowest monthly average of the year. 
The maximum temperature was 62%5, reached on the 3rd. 
The lowest temperature was 27°; which happened on the night 
of the 27th. On six nights the temperature fell below the 
freezing-point. The average for the month was 45°37, below 
the general ayerage for October nearly 2°. 
Rain fell on 22 days to the extent of 4°47 inches, exceeding 
the general average of the month by nearly one inch. 
On the observation of 30 years, the month of October 
has proved the wettest month of the year. 
A maximum fall of 1:03 inches occurred on the 6th. Other 
heavy falls were: °65 of an inch on the 12th, and -43 of an 
inch on the 13th. More than an inch for those two days. 
A thunder-shower with hail occurred about noon on the 
25th. Lightning was seen the same evening about 8 p.m. It 
rained each day from the 2nd to the 9th, and again each day 
from the 12th to the 20th of the month. 
NovEMBER. 
The barometer this month averaged 30°14 inches; it attained 
the maximum, 30-61 inches, on the 23rd, and was lowest, 
