REMARKS 



The outstanding features of the weather for the month was 

 the extremely heavy rainstorm of the first week of the month, 

 when more than five and one-half inches of rainfall occurred in 

 about 32 hours. This storm was so severe that the self-recording 

 rain guage was put out of order and the rate of the rainfall was 

 lost, after the first few hours. The standard guage, however, 

 furnished a record of the total. Not since July, 1897, has so 

 much rain occurred in so short a time. The remainder of the 

 month had several moderate storms, making the total for the 

 month more than two and one-half times the normal. An ab- 

 normal thunderstorm was recorded near the middle of the month. 



The temperature recorded also was very unusual. The 

 mean temperature was about five degrees more than normal, and 

 the maximum and minimum temperatures about six degrees 

 above their normal values for this month. 



Passing to the humidity records we find that the mean dew- 

 point was about eight degrees higher than normal and the rela- 

 tive humidity about eight per cent above the average value. 



The sunshine record was fully as abnormal as the other 

 records mentioned. Less than one-fourth of the possible amount 

 of sunshine was registered. One day was classed as clear, five as 

 fair and twenty-four as either cloudy or overcast — an unequalled 

 record here. 



Finally the wind furnished some features of note with several 

 heavy gales, a large movement for the month and an abnormal 

 amount from the southwest quadrant. Assuredly the month 

 was abnormal. 



J. E. OSTRANDER, Meteorologist 

 H. BAUMGARTNER, Observer. 



