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NOTES OF THE WEATHER, JUNE 1, 1867. 
FROM THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 
Gardiner, Maine——Mean temperature of the month about half a degree be- 
low the average of the month for thirty-one years. Amount of rain an inch 
and a quarter less than the average. 
Steuben, Maine.—June 10.—F rost by the river this morning. 
Lee, Maine —June 10.—White frost in low places, no injury to vegetation. 
28.—First ripe strawberries seen growing wild. 
South Antrim, N. H—June 30.—There has been very little rain this month, 
and the ground is now pretty dry. 
Georgetown, Mass.—June 16.—Severe thunder-shower at 5.10 p-m.; a house 
struck by lightning and a man killed. 
Richmond, Mass—June 16.—Heavy thunder-shower from 2 to 33 p. Mm; 
roads badly washed. 
Lunenburg, Mass—June 7.—At 1 p. m. the thermometer stood at 94°, 
wind west; at 14 the wind veered into the east; at 3 p. m. the temperature had 
fallen to 56°, with a heavy thunder-shower from 3 to 43 p. m. 
Columbia, Conn.—June 30.—There has been a peculiarity in all showers 
thus far this season, that instead of breaking away and being followed by fair 
weather, they run into a drizzling rain or cloudy weather for two or three days. 
Troy, N. Y—June 16.—Heavy thunder-shower from 1.50 to 2.45 p- m. 
For twenty minutes the roll of thunder was almost continuous. 
Rochester, N. Y—Mean temperature of the month was three degrees and a 
third above the general average for June. Rain 1.40 inch; general average 
for the month three inches. 
Buffalo, N. Y—The mean temperature of the month was five and one-third 
degrees higher than the average of June for nine years. The first strawberries 
raised in this county appeared in market on the 15th from the town of Eden. 
Moriches, N. Y—This June has been remarkable for the large amount of 
rain, and for a set of the wind from the southeast after clearing up, instead of 
from the southwest as usual at this season of the year. 
South Hartford. N. Y—The most notable feature of the month was the 
great rain of the 15th and 16th, over seven inches of water falling in twenty- 
four hours, the bulk of it in eight hours, from 9 p. m. of the 15th to 5 a. m. of 
the 16th. 
Newark, N. J—During the last twenty-four years (the period covered by 
the reports from this station) there were only seven Junes in which the mer- 
cury did not rise above 90 degrees, and but one of those (June, 1862) had so 
low a maximum as the month just closed (84°.) The mean temperature was 
less than a degree below the average of the month during that period. The 
most marked peculiarity of June was the quantity of rain that fell (9.745 
inches,) being more than six and a half inches above the average for the month 
during the last twenty-four years, and more than three inches above the quan- 
tity in any June during that period. ‘The rains were distributed throughout 
the month. 
Greenwich, N. J—There was an unusual number of rainy days during the 
‘month; one day was entirely clear and six were nearly so. 
Fallsington, Penn —The past June was the wettest on the record of the ob- 
server, which began in 1849. 
Philadelphia, Penn.—A very heavy rain began during the night of the 16th; 
at § a. m. the 17th, nearly four inches had fallen; the rain continued in heavy 
showers at intervals until the night of the 18th, amounting in all to 7.36 inches. 
The month was cold and wet; the mean temperature was nearly two degrees 
below the average. June, 1862, was three degrees colder than the present 
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