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NOTES OF THE WEATHER— SEPTEMBER, 1866. 



Cornish, Maine. — September 15. — Heavy frost at night. 



Lisbon, Maine — Heavy thunder showers on the 12th and 14th, and frost on 

 the night of the 15th, killing vines, beans, &:c., and hurting corn in some places. 

 Heavy frosts on the nights of the 22d and 23d, killing every sprig. 



Gardiner, Maine. — The temperature of the month was seventeen hundredths 

 of a degree above the average of September for thirty years. The amount of 

 rain was 2.43 inches above the average; only two Septembers on the record 

 have equalled it. There have been two slight frosts, but no killing frost. 



Concord, Neic Hampshire. — September 23. — First ice this morning, it meas- 

 ured an eighth of an inch thick. September 30, the leaves began to change 

 color in August, and the colors are now far advanced and the falling is quite 

 profuse. 



Strafford, New Hampshire. — September 21. — Diffuse lightning and thunder 

 in the southwest at 8 p. m. 



Brandon, Vermont — September 1. — Heavy thunder-shower from the north. 

 at 9.40 p. m. 10th, light frost on lowlands, doing no injury. 16th, Hard frost 

 this morning ; it killed corn, vines, &c. 



Craflshury, Vermont. — September 22. — The greatest fall of rain which has 

 occurred here for many years commenced about three o'clock yesterday, and 

 continued about twelve hours, raising the streams higher than ever was known 

 before, and carrying off many bridges, dams, and some mills. The water in the 

 gauge this morning measured two inches and two-tenths. 



New Bedford, Massachusetts — September 30.— Forest leaves b,ut little changed. 

 Some maples, gum-trees, and wild vines, red; grass green, and growing on all 

 sides. No frost yet in this immediate vicinity. 



Lunenburg, Massachusetts — Slight frost on the mornings of the 16th and 23d. 



North Billerica. — September 16. — Heavy frost last night; melons, &c., 

 damaged. 



Pomfret, Connecticut. — September 30. — There has been no frost at this place 



yet. 



Colebrook, Connecticut. — September 10. — Heavy frost on low ground. 24th, 

 beavy frost last night. 



Dejiauville, New York. — September, like August, was unusually wet and 

 cool, with only a few pleasant days, in the first week of the month. There 

 were no injurious frosts. One hundred and sixteen days, from May 17 to Sep- 

 tember 10, were without frost. 



Nichols, New York. — The rain from the 17th, near night, till 7 a. m. of the 

 21st, was the largest and longest storm in a number of years. 



South Trenton, Neic York. — September has been uncommonly wet ; rain fell 

 on seventeen days. 



Moriches, New York. — There was no frost in September. 



South Hartford, New York. — From 3 o'clock a. m. of the 17th, till 2 a. m. of 

 the 23d, there was nearly a continuous rain, and on Friday, the 21st, from 4 to 

 5 p. m., there were a number vi heavy discharges of thunder in the southeast, 

 not distant, passing to the northeast \yith brilliant diffuse lightning. The first 

 frost was on the morning of the 15th, very white, and much damaging tender 

 vegetation ; also severe frosts on the mornings of the 23d and 24th. 



Rochester, New York. — September 24. — "White frost this morning. 



Bvfulo, N. Y. — The mean temperature of September was nearly 3^ degrees 

 below the average of the month for the last eight years, and 10 below that of 

 last year ; but the month was more remarkable for its clouds and rains. The 

 amount for the month was four inches and two-tenths above the averasre. The 



