REMARKS. 



The Boston Office of the Weather Bureau reports that : — 



" Eight ej^elouic and the same number of anti- cyclonic areas con- 

 trolled the weather for Massachusetts during the month of October. 

 Six of the cyclones passed easterly to the north of us, one passed 

 up our eastern coast well out to sea, and one moved from the Lakes 

 to the south of us and then up the coast. The last named was the 

 most notable of the month, as it gave the heaviest continuous rain in 

 eastern INIassachusetts, that we have record of. At Boston the rain 

 began at 1.55 p. m. of the 12th, and ended at 4.30 a. m. of the 14th, 

 the amount of rainfall being 5.64 inches. 4.85 inches fell from 8 

 p. M, of the 12th to 8 p. m. of the 13th. At Nantucket, Mass., and 

 at Portland, Me., the rainfall was light during the storm. * * * * 

 The following amounts are reported by the Boston Water Works : 

 Chestnut Hill, 7.55 inches ; West Medford, 7.42 ; Ashland, 7.50 ; 

 Lake Cochituate, 6.95; Cordaville, 7.60; Framiugham, 8.49. The 

 fall at Wakefield was 6.60 inches. Considerable damage was done 

 to the streets, and cellars were flooded. All danger from a water 

 famine for the present is past in this part of the State." 



At this station, however, the rainfall for the month of October has 

 been about normal. As in the eastern part of the State the storm of 

 the 12th and 13th instants was the worst storm of the month, result- 

 ing hei'e in an unusually high record of wind for the month (5029 

 miles) and a large rainfall, (about 2.6 inches between 11 a. m. of 

 the 12th and midnight of the 13th instant), though nothing like the 

 phenomenal amounts recorded near the coast. 



The month has been considerably cooler than usual, the mean daily 

 temperatui-e being about 3*^ below our average for October, while the 

 highest and lowest mean daily temperatures have also been slightly 

 below the average. 



A trace of snow, the first of the season, fell on the 20th instant, 

 and the hills lying to the west of Amherst were capped with snow on 

 the morning of November first. 



LEONARD METCALF, Acting Meteorologist. 

 CHARLES A. KING, Observer. 



