REMARKS. 



The weather for the month has been pleasant on a whole. The 

 dry conditions prevailing during April and May continued until the 

 fourteenth of the month. Since that date considerable rain has 

 fallen making the total precipitation for the month slightly above 

 the normal. We have been visited by four severe thunderstorms, 

 that on the fifteenth doing the most damage in this vicinity. The 

 lightning struck in the immediate neighborhood many times. A 

 total of 1.38 inches of rainfall is recorded for the afternoon, one 

 inch of which fell in less than one hour. 



The wind movement was slightly above the normal for the month 

 of June ; the prevailing direction has been west-southwest. No gales 

 of severity have occured. The percentage of sunshine has been 

 below the usual amount ; the mean barometric pressure was very 

 near the normal, the range being small. The relative humidity was 

 3 per cent higher than the June average. 



The first seven days of the month were marked by an unusually 

 high temperature. The maximum (93°) occurred on the fifth and 

 the highest mean daily (81.5°) on the sixth. On the seventh we 

 were swept by a cold wave, the thermometer falling twenty-eight 

 degrees between 2 p. m. and sunset. The remainder of the month 

 has been cool, the nights in particular. 



Haying is progressing rapidly, a three-fourths crop is reported on 

 the lowlands. On the hills it is mugh lighter. Corn is growing 

 slowly on account of the lack of water in the earlier part of the sea- 

 son and the cool nights in the later. Potatoes are in excellent con- 

 dition, the early fruits are poor and scarce but the later fruits prom- 

 ise well. 



J. E. OSTRANDER, 

 A. C. MONAHAN, Meteorologist. 



Observer. 



