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RESULTS OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS TAKEN 
IN CHESTER DURING 1902, 
By THE Rev. J, CAIRNS MITCHELL, B.D., F.R.A.S. 

THE results here given are deduced from bi-daily observations of the 
standard instruments, taken at 9-0 a.m. and g-o p.m. local mean time. 
Returns are sent to the Royal Meteorological Society, the Meteorological 
Council, the Scottish Meteorological Society, and many private observers in 
different parts of the Empire. 
JANUARY.—A very mild month, fully 3-0° above the average, with pre- 
vailing westerly winds, and a large number of dull days. A very warm and 
wet period from the Ist to the roth, and from the 2oth to the 23rd. The 
13th and 14th and the last week very cold. Frost on ground on 18 nights, 
and in Stevenson’s screen on 10 nights. Sunshine average. Rainfall quarter- 
inch short of average. Snow on four days; heavy fall on 26th. Gale from 
W.S.W. on 20th. Fog on 18th. 
FEBRUARY. —A very cold month, fully 5:0° below the average. Snow 
fell on each of the five days from 7th to the 11th. The ten days from 9th to 
18th were especially severe, over 250° of Frost in the shade. On the ground 
the zero point was almost reached on the 12th. The range of temperature 
during the month was most unusually large. Sunshine very deficient. Rain 
normal, A very dismal month, 19 days being overcast. Quite a cold douche 
after the warm January. Hail on 9th. Snow lay from 8th to 22nd. 
MarcH.—A warm month, 3°0° above the average. Normal rainfall, 
but more than the usual number of rainy days. Sunshine rather deficient. 
Fog on Sth and 6th. Clear weather, with prevailing S.- Westerly winds from 
13th to the end of the month. Northerly gales on 25th and 27th. Solar 
halos on 16th and 17th, 
ApRIL.—A bright sunny month, with more than the average rainfall, 
but fewer rainy days. Very warm from the 18th to the 26th. Gales on the 
13th and 22nd from the south, Thunderstorm on 23rd. Solar halo on 13th. 
Hoar-frost on roth. 
May.—A cold, almost unprecedentally wet, dull, cheerless month, with 
a good deal of east wind; deficient sunshine ; 25 days on which rain fell, and 
the largest amount for any May during the last 27 years with one exception 
(1898). Gale from the N.W. on 18th, and high winds generally towards the 
end of the month. Hail and snow shower on 6th. Halo on 14th; and 
thunderstorms on 17th and 18th, hail accompanying that of the 17th. 
JuNE.—Slightly under the average temperature. The maximum shade 
temperature exceeded 80°0°—and that very slightly—on only four days. 
Bright sunshine considerably below the average. ain nearly one inch 
above it, falling on 18 days. As might be inferred from the prevalence of 
easterly winds, the number of dull, cheerless days was excessive, 17 being 
overcast, and only three clear. A thunderstorm on the 29th, and thunder 
heard (but no lightning seen) on the 30th. Halo on 18th. Very cold 
weather from 7th to 17th. Solar radiation very intense on 28th and 29th. 
Jury. ~ A remarkably cold, sunless month, nearly 3-0° below the average 
temperature, making it in point of heat exactly the same as a normal June. 
Only two-thirds of the usual amount of bright sunshine. A few warm days 
from 12th to the 17th, among them the highest shade temperature of the 
year (85-6° on the 18th). Rainfall about three-quarters-of-an-inch below the 
average, Gale from N.W. on roth. Solar radiation very intense on 16th 
and 17th. 
AuGustT.—Another cold month, 13 degrees below the average. Many 
sunless days, and a considerable deficiency of bright sunshine. Near] 
a quarter-of-an-inch less than the average rainfall, but almost double the 
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