1905.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 33. 35 



REPORT OF THE METEOROLOGIST. 



J. E. OSTRANDER. 



At the beginning of the year a change was made in the 

 times of observation, from 7 a.m., 2 p.m. and 9 p.m. to 8 a.m. 

 and 8 p.m. This was done in order to make them syncliro- 

 nous with those of the United States Weather Bureau, this 

 station being one of the voluntary stations of that service. 

 This change has made no appreciable difference in the daily 

 means compared with those of previous years, excepting 

 those of relative humidity, where the omission of the obser- 

 vation near midday seems to have resulted in a higher mean. 

 The effect, however, can be more definitely determined after 

 the change has been in operation for a number of years. 



As in previous years, much of the work of this division 

 has been that of observation and transcription of the records 

 in permanent form. The usual bulletins have been regularly 

 issued at the beginning of each month, containing the more 

 important daily records, together with the monthly means, 

 and remarks on any unusual features that occurred. An 

 annual summary will be made a part of the December bul- 

 letin. 



The local forecasts have been regularly received from the 

 Boston office of the United States Weather Bureau, and the 

 signals displayed from the flag-staff on the tower. This 

 station is furnishing the Aveekly reports for the "snow and 

 ice" bulletin, as has been done the last few 3^ears. 



In addition to furnishing the section director of the Weather 

 Bureau with the voluntary observers' reports, as well as our 

 printed bulletin, at his request early in the year all the rec- 

 ords at this station were examined and the data tabulated to 

 be used in a cliniatologieal directory of the principal stations 



