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NOTES OF THE WEATHER.—OCTOBER, 1867. 
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FROM THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 
-Cornish, Maine-——Mean temperature of October 2.23° above the average of 
the month for thirty-five years. 
Standish, Maine.—October 22.—Thunder shower in the evening. 
Lisbon, Maine.—October 29, 30.—Quite a severe northeast storm of rain. 
Steuben, Maine-—October 6.—Severe storm last night; two and a half inches 
of rain fell, the most of it in about an hour. 30th, 31st.—T wo inches and two- 
tenths of rain fell the last two days of the month. 
Claremont, N. H.—October 1.—The first real freeze of the season oceurred 
to-day. 22d—A smart shower of hail from 45 to 5 p. m., with two or three 
claps of thunder. 
North Barnstead, N. H—October 1.—Ice one-fourth of an inch thick. 
Georgetown, Mass.—October 15.—A heavy white frost here, and ice on lower 
ground ; thunder and lightning in the afternoon and evening at the south and 
southeast. 29th, 30th, heavy rain; blowing a gale in the evening and night of 
the 29th. 
Newport, R. I[—October 15.—Thunder shower from 7 to 8 p.m. 24th, first 
white frost. 
Groton, Conn.—Two and a quarter inches of rain fell on the 29th and 30th. 
Colebrook, Conn.—October 1.—Ground slightly frozen this morning. 
Depauville, N. Y.—October 5.—Between 4 and 5 a. m. a thunder storm from 
the northeast, with a copious rain, the latter lasting all day. 18th—The ground 
is very dry. 21st—The warm weather seems to stop the wild geese in their 
flight to the south fora while, as they are moving to-day in large flocks to the 
northwest again. 
Palermo, N. Y.—Only one inch of rain fell during the month, half of it on 
the 5th, and half on the 10th and 11th. Wells and springs here that never 
before failed are now (31st) dry. 
Rochester, N. Y.—October 1.—Quite a hard frost this morning, killing the 
tomato vines in some localities. 4th, a severe thunder storm very early in the 
morning. 31st, a few flakes of snow fell between 7 and 8 p.m. ‘The mean 
temperature of the month was 254° above the general average for October. 
Elwood, N. J—October 1—Ice formed as thick as window glass this morn- 
ing. Until the 24th tomato vines were green, and the fruit ripening. 
Trenton, N. J—October 31.—Snow squall at 3 p. m., the first of the season. 
Newark, N. J—The mean temperature of the month was more than a degree 
above the average of October for twenty-five years. There were two heavy 
falls of rain, on the 5th and_29th, the first depositing more than an inch and a 
half, and the last nearly two inches and a fifth. The storm of the 29th was very 
violent, the rain descending at times in almost unbroken sheets, and the wind 
blowing a gale from the northeast. “On the 11th a rain occurred between 7 and 
9 p. m., accompanied with very heavy thunder and vivid lightning. 'The rain 
of the month was nearly an inch above the average. 
Philadelphia, Penn.—October 31.—Hoarfrost first observed on the morning 
of the 25th. The barometer was higher on the 24th than ever before seen by the 
observer in October. 
Newcastle, Penn.—October 31.—The first snow, half an inch, fell on the 
night of the 30th. 
Ephrata, Penn.—October |.—Heavy frost this morning. 24th.—-First ice of 
the season this morning, a quarter of an inch thick on standing water. 
Perrysville, Penn.—October 1—Vegetation mostly killed by the frost this 
morning. 
Emmittsburg, Md.—October 1—Heavy frost, destroying vines. 5th, execed- 
