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October at Boston for twenty-two years, 4.11 ; for October, 

 1892, 2.31; departure, —1.80. 



Prevailing wind. — West. 



Thunder-stor^ns ocqwvvqA on the 5th and 16th. 



Aurora. — At Hyannis on the 12th and 17th. 



Remarks. 



The weather for the month of October was unusually mild 

 and pleasant. At Blue Hill Observatory the mean temper- 

 ature was the highest for October in seven years, while the 

 mean humidity and cloudiness were the lowest, and the total 

 precipitation and number of rainy days the smallest, for 

 eight years. 



The highest temperature occurred on the 8th or 14th, and 

 the lowest on the 25th, 28th or 29th. The maximum was 

 not unusually high, and the minimum was not so low as is 

 generally recorded. At Newburyport no general killing 

 frost has occurred, and at Leominster the tirst frost to 

 injure vegetation on high lands was on the 28th. The 

 observer at Chestnut Hill reports that wild violets were 

 picked on the 25th. The observer at Taunton reports that 

 the weather continues unusually mild, and in many places 

 dandelions and roses are in blossom. The number of rainy 

 and cloudy days was small, and the amount of sunshine was 

 in excess. 



The precipitation was much below the usual amount in all 

 parts of the State. At Springfield it was the least ever 

 recorded in October in forty-five years of observation ; the 

 nearest to this year's amount is 1,21 inches in 1876. One 

 observer at Fitchburg writes: "Precipitation remarkably 

 small. Nothing like it in my record of nine years past, the 

 nearest being October, 1884, when the amount was 1.98 

 inches." At Clinton the fall for the month was only 

 0.39 inch. 



This lack of precipitation, coming after several months of 

 small rainfall, causes a general drought. 



The thunder-storm on the 16th was quite severe in the 

 vicinity of Mansfield and in Connecticut. Mr. E. D. Miner 

 was killed by lightning at North Stonington, Conn., during 

 this storm. 



