REMARKS. 



The month of July has been imusual in the general lack of hot 

 summer weather and small amount of sunshine, although the mean 

 temperature has been about normal. The wind has been very 

 variable, not blowing long at a time from any quarter, and so caus- 

 ing frequent changes in temperature. The conditions are undoubt- 

 edly due to the want of marked barometric areas or conditions. 

 Eight cyclonic and four anticyclouic areas influenced the weather ^ 



during the mouth, but all of them except the last two cyclones were J 



of slight energy and indefinite area. The barometric changes were 

 neither large nor rapid, but frequently the place that would be 

 tilled by a comparatively high pressue area at one observation would 

 have a comparatively low pressure covering it at the next. The M 



cyclone of the 27th — 28th was energetic and well defined and gave ' 



heavy rain, high wind and severe local storms. 



The precipitation has been below normal and especially light in 

 southeastern sections, but even there enough has fallen to keep crops 

 growing fast. Partly made hay has been injured to considerable 

 extent by the frequent rains, but pastures have continued unusually 

 green, and the grass of fields is starting up fast after the scythe. 

 The season has been one of the best for forage crops, but the moist 

 weather has given an impetus to fungi ; potatoes, grapes, cherries, 

 peaches, etc., have been slightly injured. 



F. L. WARREN, Observer. 



