month were cool. The rainfall was chiefly the result of two 

 general storms, during which the precipitation was very 

 heavy. Tho gale of the 12th was general and did much 

 damage to fruit. The wind attained a velocity at Boston of 

 60 miles an hour. 



The Weather of October, 1900. 



The weather of the month was remarkably pleasant. There 

 were about the average number of days with rain, the amount 

 of which was fairly well distributed throughout the several 

 sections of the State. Excepting the heavy fall of the night 

 of the 8th the storms were moderate, and the rate of fall such 

 as to be of the greatest benefit to vegetation. There was a 

 week of overcast skies, from the 6th to the 12th of the month, 

 but for the remainder of the period the days of sunshine and 

 cloudiness were about equally divided. The weather was 

 abnormally warm, viewing from a point of mean temperature 

 the daily means at Boston being in excess of the normal for 

 two-thirds of the days. There were also some extremes in 

 the maxima temperatures. The mercury has ranged higher 

 in this month in the twenty-eight years covered by the 

 national meteorological observations but only in the early 

 days of the month. The current month was remarkable 

 for a continuous moderate temperature and for the period 

 in the later part of the month with a maxima of near 80° for 

 several days. At Boston the maximum rose to 77° on the 

 22d and to 80° on the 23d and the 24th. This record is not 

 paralleled in October at this station during the past twenty- 

 eight years of official records. Killing frosts and occasional 

 freezing temperatures were of occurrence from the 16th to the 

 2 2d, but excepting these days there was a general absence of 

 frost. Fogs were prevalent in coast sections during the 

 closing week of the month. There were no unusual feat- 

 ures shown in the records of wind direction and velocity 

 or those of air pressure. October, 1900, as a whole, will 

 be remembered and will go on record as a month of most 

 pleasant weather. 



Crops of the Year. 



The spring opened late and the cold weather of May 

 tended to still further retard vegetation. The frosts of the 



