Summary of the Meteorological Register for 1865. 239 



January. — It snowed on the 3, 14, 16, 17, 19, and 24th. Rain and snow on the 

 7th. Rain 6, 10, and 23d. Aurora Borealis seen on 16th. Parhelia on the 2d 

 and 16th. Lunar haloes, 2, 9, and 13th. Solar haloes on the 13th and 31st. A 

 Meteor on the 13th. 



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February. — It snowed on the 1,3, 5, 10, 12, 19, and 28th. Rain and snow 7, and 

 15th. Rain 4, 8,25, and 26th. Aurora Borealis seen on the 21st. Solar halo 27th. 



March. — It snowed on the 1st. Snow and rain 2d and 24th. Rain 3, 4, 8, 9, 

 10, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 30, and 31st. Thunder and lightning 31st. Lunar 

 haloes 12th and 13th. 



April.— It rained on the 1, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, and 29th. 

 Thunder shower on the 29th. Lunar halo observed on the 6th. 



May.— It rained on the 1, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, and 29th. 

 Thunder showers, 5, 6, 8, and 11th. Solar haloes observed on the 4th and 8th. 

 Lightning 17, 21, and 22d. A Tornado on the 11th. 



June.— It rained on the 5, 8, 9, 10, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, and 30th. Thundershow- 



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ers on the 5, 8, 9, 10, 18, 22, and 30th. Lightning seen on the 4th. Aurora 

 Borealis 16th and 22d. 



July.— It rained on the 1, 4, 12, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, and 25th. Thunder showers 

 on the 1, 4, 17, 19, 22, and 25th. Lightning seen on the 20, 22, 25, and 28th. 

 Lunar halo 6th. Parhelion 29th. 



August. — It rained on the 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 21, 22, and 27th. Thunder showers 3, 4. 

 and 21st. 



September. — It rained on the 1, 2, 6, 8, 10, 14, 18, and 25th. Thunder showers 

 2d and 6th. Lightning seen 15th and 25th. Shooting stars 6th. 



October.— It rained on the 1, 4, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 27, 28, and 31st. Very 

 high wind 19th and 20th. Lunar halo seen on the 31st. Aurora Borealis 20th. 

 Shooting stars 22d. 



November. — It rained on the 2, 3, 4, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 27th. Snowed on the 

 29th. Slight hail 22d. Aurora Borealis seen on the 10th and 11th. Lunar halo 

 27th. Shooting stars 15th. 



December. — It snowed on the 7, 9, 16, 17, 20, 30, and 31st. Snow and rain 24th. 

 Rain 1, 4, 12, 13, 19, 21, 27, and 28th. Lunar halo seen on the 29th. Shooting 

 star 21st. 



The Aurora Borealis was observed 7 times ; Parhelia 3 times ; Meteors 5 times ; 

 Solar haloes 5 times, Lunar haloes 10 times; Hurricanes 3 times; Lightning 

 alone 10 times. It rained on 116 days, among which were 29 thunder showers. 

 It snowed on 22 days; snow and rain 6 days; and hail on one day. 



The quantity of water that fell in June was more than in any other month of 

 the year, 10.42; March coming the nearest to it, 8.32; while the whole for the 

 year was greater than for many years; the average for the 11 years preceding 

 being 50.447 inches, including 1865, 51,491 inches; the greatest quantity in any 

 one year, for the same time, being 57.03 inches in 1863, while this year it was 

 62.98 inches. 



