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JULY commenced warm and dry, but after the first week scarcely a day 
passed without a little rain. There were heavy thunderstorms on the 11th, 
when 1°30 inches of rain fell. The shade temperature exceeded 80° on 
four days. 
AuGusT was the warmest month of that name in the past eighteen years, 
with the exceptions of August 1880 and 1884. The shade temperature 
exceeded So° on seven days, and there was only one frost and that on the 
grass only. There was a slight earthquake shock on the 4th, and on the night 
of the 9th and roth a remarkable thunderstorm, the thunder and lightning 
being incessant from 10 p.m, until 4 a.m., and at times very violent. A slight 
display of Aurora Borealis was observed on the 19th. 
SEPTEMBER.—The first part was dry and bright on the whole, the latter 
part showery. On the 8th there was a heavy thunderstorm, during which 1°18 
inch of rain fell. The mean temperature exceeded 70° on six days. There 
were no frosts in the shade, but four on the grass. 
OCTOBER was a warm and rather dry month, there being only two frosts in 
the shade and seven on the grass. 
NOVEMBER was the driest November, with the exception of 1889, in the 
last eighteen years. There were three falls of snow, the first fall of the Winter 
occurring on the 18th. Gales occurred on the 16th, 18th, and 19th. There 
were eleven frosts in the shade and sixteen on the grass. 
DECEMBER.—The mean temperature was high, being 11° above that of 
the preceding month. There was only one fall of snow. Gales occurred on 
the 8th and 19th. There were ten frosts in the shade and seventeen on the 
orass. 
