METEOROLOGY. 



FEOM THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Tlie following tables show, first, tlie temperature and the amount of rain 

 falling in the months of May and June, and then the comparison between the 

 weather for those months of this year and of the same months in five years 

 previous. An examination of the last column in the last table will show how 

 this season thus far compares with the average of other years. 



Table sJiouiing the Jiighest and loioest range of the tliermometer, (with dates pre- 

 fixed,) the mean temperature, and amount of rain, (in inches and tenths,) 

 for May and June, 1863, at the following places, as given hy the observers 

 named. Daily observations were made at the hours of 1 a. m., and 2 and 9 

 p. m. 



TEMPERATURE AND MOISTURE OF MAY, 1863. 



MAINK. 



Belfast 



Lisbon 



(Doruishville 



.Steuben 



Foxcroft 



NEW HAMPSHIRE 



Littleton 



VERMONT. 



Burlington 



Lunenburg 



Brandon 



Craftsbury 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



Amherst 



New Bedford 



Mendon 



Sandwich 



Richmond 



CONNECTICUT. 



Plymouth 



Pomfret 



New Haven 



Middletown 



County. 



Waldo 



Androscoggin. 

 York 



Washington . . 

 Piscataquis . . . 



Grafton 



Chittenden ... 



Essex 



Butland 



Orleans 



Hampshire ... 



Bristol 



Worcester 



Barnstable ... 

 Berkshire .... 



Litchfield . . . . 



Windham 



New Haven . . 

 Middlesex 



Observer's name. 



Geo. E. Brackett 

 Asa P. Moore — 

 G. W. Guptill.., 

 J. D. Parker .... 

 Mark Pitman 



Robt. C. WTiiting... 



M. R. Petty 



Hiram A. Cutting... 



Daniel Bucklaud 



James A. Paddock.. 



E. S. Snell 



Samuel Rodman 



Jno. George Mefcalf 

 N. Barrows, M. D . . . 

 WUliam Bacon 



Dwight W. Leai-ned 



D. Hunt 



D. C. Leavenworth. 

 John Johnston 



Date. 



23 



21 



21,23 



23 



22 

 22 

 22 

 22 

 22,23 



23 



Max. 



89 



■82 



84 



87 

 86i 

 87 

 91i 



Date. 



3 



6 



3 



3,5 



54.9 

 55.9 

 56.6 

 51.0 

 54.3 



55.8 



55.2 

 57.1 

 56.7 

 53.4 



58.9 

 57.1 

 57.5 

 53.7 

 60.7 



.57.8 

 56.3 

 59.0 

 59.9 



In. 

 3.4 



2.22 

 2.13 

 4.00 



6.88 

 3. 52 

 7.56 

 4.33 



3.59 

 3.52 

 2-10 

 3.62 



6.10 

 2.15 



L74 



