METEOROLOGY. 



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place for the benefit of all who may choose to examine them, 

 and upon the receipt of warning from the Central Signal 

 Service Station of this district, a cold wave flag is displayed 

 above the Station buildings. This method of forewarnins: 

 the public of the approach of serious changes of temperature 

 is easily understood and appreciated, and will, we believe, 

 be of much local value in the spring and fall months. 



A meteorological summary for Amherst, for 1884, is pre- 

 sented here, through the courtesy of Miss S. C. Snell, 

 observer at Amherst College. It will serve a general pur- 

 pose sufficiently w^ell, though taken at a location and 

 exposure diifering from those of the Station by so much that 

 appreciable differences in rainfall and extremes of temperature 

 undoubtedly exist. A record of the rainfall at the Station 

 for a part of the year bears out this supposition, as the fol- 

 lowing comparison shows : — 



Rain at Amherst 

 College. 



Rain at Experi- 

 ment Station, 



May, .... 

 June, .... 

 July, .... 

 August, .... 

 September, . 

 October, 

 November, . 

 December, 



Total for eight months, 



Inches. 

 2.02 

 1.38 

 3.75 

 5.10 

 1.25 

 2.40 

 2.53 



Inches. 

 2.02 

 211 

 3.98* 

 4.21 

 1.04 

 2.06 

 2.G2 



Although the two places of observation are only about 

 one mile apart, the monthly rainfall agreed in only one 

 case, and in one instance (August) differed 0.89 of an 

 inch. 



This comparative record, incomplete as it is, strongly 

 emphasizes the necessity of obtaining meteorological data 

 in the immediate locality of the scene of the experiments. 



Records from even an adjoining neighborhood do not 

 answer the requirements at all, and this is especially true in 

 a hilly, broken country like that surrounding Amherst. 



The instruments above mentioned will therefore prove an 

 important addition to our resources. 



* Incomplete. 



