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ture 72°8°. Maximum temperature exceeded 65:0° only five times. Minimum 
temperature only five times exceeded 50°0°. Highest temperature in sun 
114'0° on 14th. Rain (over the whole month), both as to amount and number 
of days, normal; but very dry the first half, and very wet the second half 
of month. Bright sunshine deficient by 66 hours, and double the average 
number of sunless days. Three thunderstorms took place : two on the night 
of the 16th-17th, and the other on the 31st. Prevailing winds from the 
S.W.—rather light. No frost in Stevenson’s screen; six on grass. A dull 
sunless month, with a flurry of snow at an early hour on the 8th. 
Junr.—A very sunny but decidedly cool month, the temperature being 
1°7° below the average. Amount of rain, three-quarters-of-an-inch short, 
fell on fully three days less than the usual number. Temperatures in sun 
and on ground very considerably below the average Highest tempera- 
ture in shade 76°5°; lowest, 42°0°. Shade temperature exceeded 72:0° five 
times ; and fell below 45:0° five times. Temperature in sun above 110°0° on 
ten days ; and on ground below 400° on five nights. Thunderstorm on the 
afternoon of the 24th. Severe gale from the N.W. on the 25th; moderate 
gales from the S.W. on the 16th and 21st. 
JuLy.—A warm month, 2'0° above the average temperature, and very 
dry ; but quite half of the average amount of rainfall in light showers, on 
three-atid-a-half days less than the average number of rainy days. No day 
without bright sunshine; total amount 6% above the average Thunderstorm 
on the 12th. Temperature in sun 126:0° on the 6th; on ground, five times 
45°2° or under. Wind south-westerly, only once rising to 5 from S.W. on 
the 1st; quiet evenings. 
Avuceust.—A rather cool and wet but sunny month Temperature in 
shade 2°1° below the average. Fully one-third-of an-inch more than the 
average rainfall ; considerably more than an inch fell on Sunday the 2ist. 
There were 16 rainy days. The highest shade temperature was 82:2°, and 
the lowest 431°. In the sun the highest was 118-4° on the 28th; and the 
lowest on the ground 36:0° on the 25th _—‘The first 12 days were warm, dry, 
and calm ; the remaining part of the month cool, wet, and windy. 
SEPTEMBER.—A very dry, sunny, rather mild, and decidedly windy 
month, the wind being almost equally from the S.E. and S.W. Bright sun- 
shine 8% above the average ; and rainfall deficient by about three-quarters-of- 
an-inch. Two-thirds of the rainfall took place on two days - the 2nd and 
last of the month. With the exception of a slight shower on the 12th, no 
rain fell from the 6th to the 3oth—a period of 22 rainless days. The shade 
temperature was above 670° on nine days, and under 470° on 15; the 
highest 71 6°, and lowest 37°9°. Inthe sun the temperature was 100°0° on 
11 days; and on the ground frost on three nights. The mean daily range 
of temperature was 3'5° above the average. 
OcToBER.—An extremely dry and rather quiet and dull month, with an 
unusually high mean atmospheric pressure. Mean temperature in shade 2-2° 
above the average. Frost on ground on eight nights, and twice in shade— 
31°3° on 3rd and 31°5 on 14th. In sun at or above 90 0° on five days. Five 
days without any bright sunshine. Two inches short of the average rainfall, 
and only half the average number of rainy days. The deficiency of rain and 
rainy days is most remarkable, especially when it is taken into account that 
October is usually the wettest month of the whole year. Fog on four days. 
Prevailing winds S.W. Gale on the 6th from the W.N.W. 
NOVEMBER.— Up to the 20th a dull, dry, but rather mild month; from 
the 21st nearly sunless, very wet, and almost arctic in temperature, the mean 
average in the shade for the 10 days being 34°5°, which is almost 4:0° below 
the average of the month of January (the coldest in the year)—a change 
equal to passing at once from the middle of an average September to the 
