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coldest was that of 1857, mean temperature 16.3°, showing a difference of 

 17.9° in mean temperature. Total quantity of rain and melted snow for the 

 month, 4.66 inches, which is 1.27 inches above the average for thirty-three 

 years. The following table gives the mean temperature of the air, and the 

 amount of rain and melted snow, for January in each of the last five years. 

 The preceding twenty-eight years may be found in the volume of observations 

 made at Providence by Professor Caswell, and published by the Smithsoniaa 

 Institution. 



Year. Temperature. Rain. 



1860 30.5 0.80 



1861 24.2 4.87 



1862 25.5 6.06 



1 863 32.2 3.61 



1864 27.3 4.66 



Mean of five years 27.9 4.00 



Newark, New Jersey. — Fogs and clouds ushered in the new year with a 

 rising temperature, the mercury having continued to move upward during 

 the whole of the night of the 3ist of December and the morning of the Ist, 

 reaching 49° about noon, when a sudden change took place. The clouds, 

 which had been gradually breaking away, rolled off before a western gale, 

 and the weather rapidly grew colder, the temperature before midnight fall- 

 ing to 11°, and before the morning of the 2d it was down to 8°. The mer- 

 cury afterwards rose again, and subsequently falling, reached the minimum 

 of the month, 6°, on the 10th. This cold was far from being unprecedented, 

 the record of thirteen of the last twenty winters showing lower readings of 

 the thermometer in January. After the 1 1th there was no day that the 

 temperature did not rise above the freezing point in the shade, and from the 

 22d to the 29th, inclusive, the weather was more like early spring than mid- 

 winter. 



The amount of rain and melted snow was 1.73 inch, which is nearly two 

 inches less than the average for the month, and a smaller quantity than fell 

 in any January in the last twenty years except one, 1849. 



Mean temperature of January for thirteen years at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, hy 



Jacob Lups. 



