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the weather of each month will help us to gauge the weather of the 
year accurately. You will remember that the autumn of 1892 was 
fairly mild. In November there were five days on which the 
thermometer was below 32°, but the frosts were very slight. In 
December there were sixteen such days but the frosts were very 
slight, so that the mean minimum for the whole month was only 
32°, yet in the Jast week the frosts were severe, and on the 27th 
the extreme minimum of the year was reached, the thermometer 
going down to 17°. From that time for nearly three weeks 
there were almost continual frosts, and there were fourteen days 
of frost in January with little wind and almost no snow. The 
rainfall of January was a little over two inches and at the end of 
the month the thermometer was up to 52°. In February there 
were four days of slight frost, but there was over three inches of 
rain, and the thermometer reached 57°, and the month might be 
called almost favourable throughout. Then began the bright fine 
weather which lasted so long. March was fair all through with 
slight frosts on three days, with the thermometer reaching 65° and 
only four-tenths of rain, though rain was recorded on eight days. 
In April there were two slight frosts, the last of the season; the 
month was bright all through, the thermometer reaching 79° and 
the rainfall only -06, which fell in one day. May was almost 
equally fine but not quite; the thermometer reached 77°, and 
there was a rainfall of 1:7 spread over six days. June was a 
splendid month though rain was recorded on eleven days; the 
thermometer reached 87°, and there was one inch of rain. In 
July there were a few wet days in the middle of the month, and 
rain altogether on fifteen days, making a rainfall of 4:3, but on 
the whole it was a fine month with the thermometer reaching 83°. 
August also was a beautiful month, with 1:7 of rain spread over 
ten days, and the thermometer reaching 86°. September was equally 
fine, with 1-4 of rain spread over fourteen days, the thermometer 
reaching 77°. In October the weather began to change; it was 
on the whole a bright month, the thermometer reaching 69°, but 
