^a/?. —Taunton, 29th. 



8olar IIalos. — 2d, 3d, 6th, 11th, IGth, 23d, 26th. 



Lunar Halos. — 2d, 22d, 25th. 



Auroras. — Provincetown, 5th; Amherst, 17th. 



Eemarks. 



The weather for Massachusetts for October was below the 

 normal in barometric pressure, temperature and sunshine, 

 and above in precipitation. The departure from the normal 

 in temperature varied from 0.4° at Boston to 3.7° at Taun- 

 ton, with a general average of over 1.5° below the normal. 

 There were no very strongly marked daily temperature 

 ranges, and the range for the month was very small. The 

 maximum temperature occurred for the most part near the 

 first of the month, then decreased very gradually toward the 

 end, although the lowest temperature for the month occurred 

 on the morning of the 22d. The excessive rainfall durino- 

 the last half of the month carried the total average precipi- 

 tation far above the usual October rainfall. The excess was 

 from 1.51 to 6.69 inches, with an average of 41 inches above 

 the normal. 



Ten cyclones and five anticylones influenced the weather 

 during the month. The large excess of the cyclonic areas 

 occurring, as they did mostly, during the last part of the 

 month, partially explains the reason for so much rainy and 

 threatening weather during that time. Of the anticyclonic 

 areas, the first and third passed from the Lakes across 

 northern New England, the fourth moved up the west, the 

 fifth passed across New England from west to east, while 

 the second only moved down the coast. The cyclones were 

 generally well defined, and moved with rapidly increasino- 

 energy. The first and third, on the 3d and Uth respectively, 

 were poorly defined till they neared the St. Lawrence Gulf; 

 but the sixth on the 17th, the seventh on the 19th-20th, the 

 eighth on the 23d-25th, the ninth on the 2()th-27th, and 

 the tenth on the 29th-30th, all moved up the New England 

 coast, giving heavy rains and destructive north-east gales. 

 On the 17th, 19th and 24th they were especially severe, and 

 much damage was done to trees, buildings and shipping, the 

 wind on the latter date reaching as high a velocity on the 

 Massachusetts coast as was ever experienced there. 



