METEOROLOGY. 



FROM THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



The following tables show, first, the temperature and the amount of rain 

 falling in the month of August, and then the comparison between the weather 

 for that month of this year and of the same month in five years previous. An 

 examination of the last column in the last table will show how this August com- 

 pares with the average of other years. 



Table showing the highest and loicest range of the thermometer, (vnth dates pre- 

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

 for August, 1863, at the following places, as given hy the ohscrvcrs named. 

 Daily observations icere made at the hours ofla. m., and 2 a)id 9 p. m. 



TE>IPERATURE AXD RAIN OF AUGUST, 1863. 



Place. 



County. 



Observer'g name. 



Date. 



Max. Date. 



Rain. 



Cornishville York G. "W. Guptill 



Foxcroft ■ Piscataquis Mark Pitman . , 



MASS.4CHUSETTS. 



New Bedford 



Amherst 



Mendon 



Topsfieia j Essex 



Williamstown Berkshire. 



Bald^^ iu svUl e "Worcester 



RHODE ISLAND. 



Providence 



COS.VECTICUT. 



Pomfret 



Jfiddletown 



Bristol I Samuel Rodman 



Hampshire i E. S. Snell 



Worcester Jno. George Metcalf . 



John H. Caldwell... 



Albert Hopkins 



Rev. E. Dewhurgt .. 



Providence , 



"Windham 

 iEddlesex 



Prof. A. CasweU... 



ReT. Daniel Hunt. . . 

 Prof. John Johnston 



3 



3,11 

 10 

 3 



5,11 



9 



3 



10 



11 



11 



9 



2,10 



2,5,6 



3 

 3 

 3 

 3 



11 

 3,10 



30,31 



30,31 



31 



16 



31 

 27 

 31 

 28 



31 

 31 

 30,31 

 31 

 31 

 31 



50,31 



27 



52 

 50 

 ,48 

 47 



66.3 

 65.0 

 63.9 



72.5 

 70.1 

 71.0 

 70.3 

 69.1 

 65.9 



In. 



4.39 

 3.23 

 2.30 

 2.56 



66.6 4.60 

 63. 7 I 3. 04 

 69. ' 5. 78 

 ■ 5.90 



65. 6 ; 2. 41 



70. ' 2. 90 



62. 9 1. 66 



70. ' 5. 92 



69. 7 7. 2P 



2.42 

 6.11 

 4. 61 

 4.97 

 5.24 

 5.00 



70.3 4.39 



69. 6 I 6.S4 



70. 9 4. 90 



